SACRAMENTO — When California’s next governor arrived at the Capitol for a news conference this summer, the woman introducing him didn’t seem to realize he was there.
“Xavier Becerra?” she said, looking to her left, then her right, searching. Then Becerra stepped out.
“Oh, you’re right behind me!” she said, surprised.
It was a moment that would never happen with California’s current governor. At most press conferences he attends, Gavin Newsom stands a full head taller than almost everyone else, his slicked-back salt-and-pepper hair and big white-toothed grin visible even when he’s at the back of the room…