Gavin Newsom gaslights Californians as he jockeys for the White House

In politics, gaslighting means brazenly denying what people can see with their own eyes, and then refusing to admit the lie even when caught at it. Gov. Newsom, in his State of the State address, demonstrated that he has elevated gaslighting to an art form.
There were so many misrepresentations in his pre-recorded video speech that they were challenging to count.
The gaslighting started right out of the box in the opening sentence, quoting California Gov. Culbert Olson from 1939 as the world was