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12/10/2020 09:13 AM EST
THE BUZZ: If Gov. Gavin Newsom was looking for a wartime consigliere, he may just have gotten one.
A particularly perilous political path stretches before the first-term governor. A restive and anxious public is running out of patience with coronavirus lockdowns even as we enter what could be the pandemic’s deadliest phase. In the coming months, Newsom will have to oversee the vaccination of some 40 million Californians while trying to revive an economy battered by months of ratcheting restrictions and dealing with legislators who are clamoring to flex their supermajority might.