Fact Check: Did Gavin Newsom Date a Teenager While He Was Mayor of San Francisco?

Long before he was moving toward a run for the 2028 Democratic presidential nomination, California Gov. Gavin Newsom was making a different kind of headline as San Francisco’s mayor.

The progressive Democrat, leading one of the country’s most progressively Democratic cities, set tongues wagging in the first decade of this century by dating a woman literally young enough to be his daughter.

In fact, Newsom, at 39, was twice as old as his 19-year-old paramour, according to reports published at the time.

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Joe has spent more than 30 years as a reporter, copy editor and metro editor in newsrooms in Pennsylvania, West Virginia and Florida. He's been with Liftable Media since 2015. Largely a product of Catholic schools, who discovered Ayn Rand in college, Joe is a lifelong newspaperman who learned enough about the trade to be skeptical of every word ever written. He was also lucky enough to have a job that didn't need a printing press to do it.

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