Hosts brutally debunk Gavin Newsom's California 'statistics'

Gavin Newsom recently went on Sean Hannity's show to tout California’s economic growth, but Dave Rubin isn’t buying it.

Newsom claimed that in 2021, California had 7.8% of GDP growth.

“One of the fastest-growing economies anywhere on planet Earth,” Newsom said, adding that California “continues to be the temple of the American economy.”

Newsom also championed that 25.6% of all American jobs came from California in April, and the last two fiscal years California enjoyed $177.7 billion in operating surpluses.

“We’re on our way to be the fourth largest economy — eat your heart out Germany — in the world,” Newsom said smugly.

“Okay, so almost everything he said there was either a lie or a confusion in terms of some of the numbers,” Rubin responds.

Rubin makes the point that despite the 1.5 million people who fled, California is still a massive state — which drastically inflates the numbers.

Amy Jo Clark and Miriam Weaver of Chicks on the Right join Rubin to add their two cents.

“It’s like he just doesn’t see what’s happening right in front of his very eyes in places like San Francisco, which is just absolutely falling apart. And he doesn’t recognize, or he refuses to admit, all the people that have fled California, they’re hightailing it out of there with good reason,” Weaver says.

“He talks in circles, that’s what he’s doing,” Clark adds.

“It’s like I can smell him through the screen,” she continues. “I mean he smells like a used car salesman with way too much cologne on.”

While Newsom is clearly proud of his state, Rubin brings up a crime statistic from the Public Policy Institute of California.

“California’s violent crime rate,” he reads, “increased by 6.0%, from 440 per 100,000 residents in 2020 to 466 in 2021. While robberies fell somewhat (by 1.9%), aggravated assaults jumped by 8.9%, and homicides and rape increased by 7.7% and 7.9% respectively.”

In addition, Rubin adds that the number of people without a stable place to call home in California has increased by 22,500 over the past three years, and homelessness has grown by 15%.

And according to Governing.com, California’s economy ranked 10th-worst in GDP growth for all of 2022.

“So, that is really the proof in the pudding stuff,” Rubin adds.

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