Why Has 2018 Been Such a Bad Election Year for Lieutenant Governors?

Governing: Gavin Newsom hasn't accomplished much as lieutenant governor of California. Perversely, that might help him win a promotion.

Newsom has complained that his office has "no real authority and no real portfolio." Early in his tenure, he told reporters he didn't bother spending more than one day per week in Sacramento because he had so little to do. When asked by a young boy what a lieutenant governor does, Newsom said, "I ask myself that every day."

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