Typically, folks who are running or thinking about running don’t directly answer questions about it. It’s also very common for inside knowledge on an explorato

Typically, folks who are running or thinking about running don’t directly answer questions about it. It’s also very common for inside knowledge on an exploratory committee to be leaked to the press ahead of a run. Serious candidates hire a team to strategize months before making an announcement and it never stays silent because the exploratory committee itself tends to leak in order to gauge the early reaction. We’ve seen neither of these things from Newsom.