Newsom touts state’s economy, jabs at rival states during economic summit

In his first public appearance in more than a week, Gov. Gavin Newsom touted the trajectory of California’s economic recovery Tuesday during a discussion at the 2021 California Economic Summit in Monterey.

Newsom argued that the state’s 21 percent growth in gross domestic product over the last five years, even with the COVID-19 pandemic, has outpaced that of entire countries like Germany, Japan, the United States and the United Kingdom – let alone other states.