{"id":21413,"date":"2026-03-07T22:01:56","date_gmt":"2026-03-07T22:01:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/2026\/03\/07\/feminist-hero-katie-couric-asks-gavin-newsom-if-hes-too-hot-to-be-president-in-hard-hitting-interview\/"},"modified":"2026-03-07T22:01:56","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T22:01:56","slug":"feminist-hero-katie-couric-asks-gavin-newsom-if-hes-too-hot-to-be-president-in-hard-hitting-interview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/2026\/03\/07\/feminist-hero-katie-couric-asks-gavin-newsom-if-hes-too-hot-to-be-president-in-hard-hitting-interview\/","title":{"rendered":"Feminist Hero Katie Couric Asks Gavin Newsom If He\u2019s Too Hot To Be President In Hard-Hitting Interview"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:relative\" data-narration-container=\"true\">\n<p>Katie Couric made history when she became the first woman to solo-host a primetime news program \u2014 The CBS Evening News \u2014 but now she\u2019s making news by asking Governor Gavin Newsom (D-CA) on her podcast whether he\u2019s too pretty for national politics.<\/p>\n<p>Couric hosted the governor on a recent episode of her \u201cNext Question\u201d podcast, and while she did ask him about a number of more serious policy positions, she also asked whether he was too handsome to be taken seriously.<\/p>\n<p><strong>WATCH:<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Couric: Do you have a Zoolander problem? Are you just ridiculously good looking as Vogue said? What do you do about that?<\/p>\n<p>Newsom: You don\u2019t do anything about it\u2026It\u2019s just who I am.<\/p>\n<p>Good. Lord. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/aFmvpDLlaa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">pic.twitter.com\/aFmvpDLlaa<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Western Lensman (@WesternLensman) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WesternLensman\/status\/2029623877865800188?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">March 5, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cDo you have a \u2018Zoolander\u2019 problem?\u201d Couric asked, laughing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOh, Jesus,\u201d Newsom laughed. \u201c\u2018Zoolander.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAre you just ridiculously good-looking as <em>Vogue<\/em> said? No, seriously, what do you do about that?\u201d Couric asked.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou don\u2019t do anything about it,\u201d Newsom replied. \u201cBecause if you\u2019re going to do something about it then you\u2019re bullsh*tting people. You know what? I am who I am. It\u2019s fine. You don\u2019t have to like me. Or maybe you like a slick person, I don\u2019t know. Whatever, it\u2019s okay. If I start showing up \u2014\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI brought that up because you talked about being authentic,\u201d Couric interrupted. \u201cAnd I think it sometimes works against you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYeah, it\u2019s just who I am. It\u2019s just who I am,\u201d Newsom repeated.<\/p>\n<p>Couric capitalized on that moment to tease the interview, cutting it into the introduction for the podcast episode. Her <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=1E-mlna_XVk&amp;t=1s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">YouTube<\/a> caption began, \u201cCalifornia Governor Gavin Newsom has spent his career outrunning a public image that reduces him to a caricature\u2014slick, ambitious, and impossibly polished.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Couric\u2019s line of questioning follows a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/vogue-puff-piece-on-gavin-newsom-delivers-overdose-of-cringe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">fawning profile<\/a> from Vogue\u2019s Spring 2026 issue that opened with the following statement: \u201cLet\u2019s get this out of the way: He is embarrassingly handsome, his hair seasoned with silver, at ease with his own eminence as he delivers his final State of the State address.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The piece, authored by Maya Singer, continued, \u201cIt must drive Trump nuts. Newsom: lithe, ardent, energetic, a glimmer of optimism in his eye; Kennedy-esque. Add to that his stunning wife and four adorable kids, and the executive strut of a self-made millionaire who has spent the past seven years at the helm of a state big, complex, and rich enough to be a nation of its own.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Newsom, who term-limits out at the end of this year as California governor, is widely expected to run for president in 2028.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/feminist-hero-katie-couric-asks-gavin-newsom-if-hes-too-hot-to-be-president-in-hard-hitting-interview\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Katie Couric made history when she became the first woman to solo-host a primetime news program \u2014 The CBS Evening News \u2014 but now she\u2019s making news by asking Governor Gavin Newsom (D-CA) on her podcast whether he\u2019s too pretty for national politics. 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