California Governor Gavin Newsom (D) needs to work on his pandering skills – after telling a crowd of black people that he’s just like them because he can’t read and got a low SAT score.
“I’m not trying to impress you, I’m just trying to impress upon you, ‘I’m like you. I’m not better than you.’ I’m a 960 SAT guy,” Newsom told Atlanta Mayor Andre Dickins during a Sunday night event promoting his new book.
“And I’m not trying to offend anyone,” the potential 2028 Democratic contender continued. “I’m not trying to act all there if you got 940 … You’ve never seen me read a speech because I cannot read a speech.”
Of note, the average SAT score for blacks is a 907 out of a possible 1600, according to 2024 College Board data, while white SAT takers received an average of 1083.
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Newsom, 58, graduated from Santa Clara University in 1989. He received a letter of recommendation from former California Gov. Jerry Brown, who had appointed Newsom’s father to serve as a state appellate judge.
But the governor has insisted the only reason he was admitted was a partial baseball scholarship.
“I don’t think it’s relevant at all,” Newsom told the New York Times earlier this month about the Brown letter. “The ticket to Santa Clara came through the baseball, not anything else. And that was the point I was making in the book.”
Newsom, 58, graduated from Santa Clara University in 1989. He received a letter of recommendation from former California Gov. Jerry Brown, who had appointed Newsom’s father to serve as a state appellate judge.