Newsom initially told the Times that his daughter had "a series of other shots" to get first.
This got glossed over when it happened, but his opponents would sink him on mandating the shots for CA and lagging behind himself. That was the main one but he got caught a few times breaking his own rules. He could never run for President until they wait out the COVID backlash, because both sides would shit on him for all the mistakes he made.
Frankly he screwed himself a while ago with a simple comment:
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/newsoms-kid-lacks-vaccine-despite-mandate
This got glossed over when it happened, but his opponents would sink him on mandating the shots for CA and lagging behind himself. That was the main one but he got caught a few times breaking his own rules. He could never run for President until they wait out the COVID backlash, because both sides would shit on him for all the mistakes he made.