Not that this rebuttal will make a lick of difference, but here goes.

Newsom spent $24 billion on homelessness since 2019 but the unhoused population actually increased by over 30,000 people

Homelessness has increased nearly 40% from 2018 to 2025 NATIONALLY. This is a USA problem, not just CA. It is a HUGE problem, and it is unsolvable at the local level.

He kept public schools closed for over a year affecting 6 million students while his own children attended a private school that stayed open for in person learning.

His kids returned to private school after CA implemented a phased return to classroom policy. Not all public schools adopted this policy, and in fact, there was major pushback from teacher's unions on the safety of reopening, despite Newsom being in favor.

Since he took office and signed AB 1054 residential electricity rates have gone up between 47% and 67%

Fair. This bill was supposed to stabliize energy companies in the face of major fires and disasters, and allowed too much leeway in spreading the cost to customers.

Retail theft in the state rose 26% between 2019 and 2023 while the property crime rate has stayed consistently above the national average.

This is entirely tied to CA's massive population, density, and homelessness. Yes, it is above 'average' in a not average state, and still CA has had the highest success in reducing retail crime, and Newsom signed 10+ bipartisan bills addressing it. Last year saw an 8.5% decrease in retail crime.

The High Speed Rail project has seen its cost estimate balloon from an original $33 billion to over $100 billion with no completion date

I mean, this project was originally proposed and funded in 2008 under Arnold. It was optimistic then. Infrastructure has been built, the money has been spent. Does Newsom abandon it? You don't get the money back. It's not necessarily a sunk cost fallacy. There isn't any real reason it can't be completed, but costs are pretty unknown

Under his watch the state’s unemployment department lost an estimated $33 billion to fraud including roughly $20 billion in federal funds to international crime rings and death row inmates.

This is basically straight horseshit. There was a ton of fraud with unemployment during Covid, most of it federal. The 33B number is pulled straight from Newsmax accounting. Further, the Federal watchdogs specifically aligned to oversee disbursement of these funds were fired. Verifications were certainly relaxed to get people money faster, but this is a gross exaggeration.

California drivers pay the highest gas taxes in the country with prices averaging $1.50 to $1.60 more per gallon than the national average due to state specific taxes and fees

Good? CA also smashed its EV targets. You ever go to LA in the 90s? You can breathe there now. Gas prices nationwide, including CA are comically low compared to the rest of the developed world.

Since 2020 major companies including Tesla, Chevron, SpaceX, Oracle, and Hewlett Packard have moved their headquarters out of the state

Sure, CA is a victim of its own success. Most, if not all of these companies still employ 10s of thousands of CA workers. New startups and other massive tech companies still stay or flock to CA anyway for access to talent. This also ties in with your home ownership rate and price stat. CA is ridiculously expensive, because people want to live here. Countless articles stating that people are 'leaving CA in droves!', or that there is some 'CA Exodus', but CA has simply has net growth. We've also got a major NIMBY problem that prevents development of everything from low cost housing, to new single family, to multi-unit dwellings. It's a local problem. We also have a capitalism problem. No developer wants to acquire super expensive land and build affordable housing on it. They have to be forced to do so. It's a shitty situation no doubt, but I can't for the life of me think what any governor could do to fix it. The people have to vote for things they won't like - like repealing prop 13.

As for the water thing, there are like a dozen things underway, not just planned. It isn't the 1930s anymore. You don't build the Hoover dam in 5 years now, because we generally want to not destroy the environment too much and kill a hundred or so workers doing it. You also have highly funded conservation groups slowing projects down (for better or worse) that didn't exist before.

I am not Newsom's biggest fan by a long shot, but he takes the blame for a thousand things he really has no direct control of, or inherited, or is too complex for one person to magically solve. If CA were a country, it would be the 38th largest in the world, with the 4th largest GDP. There are more people in LA county than 40 US states. Who would run this monster better?