Gavin Newsom has spent roughly a fifth of his second term outside the state — including on a $2 million memoir promotional tour that’s taken the him on high-end stays in Miami, New York City, Atlanta, and Las Vegas.

The runaway gov. has taken45 out-of-state trips since 2023– which equates to 229 travel days, or two total months each year – as he plots a White House bid in 2028, according to an analysis of his schedule by The Press Democrat.

Just this year, California Gov. Gavin Newsom has spent at least two weeks out of state in 2026, traveling across the U.S. and overseas to promote his memoir – including a stop at Austin’s SXSW festival –along with appearances in key early Democratic primary states.

His travel has also taken him to Europe on two major trips, including a four-to-five-day visit to Davos, Switzerland, where he criticized President Donald Trump, and a stop in Germany for the Munich Security Conference.

He later traveled to London tosign a clean energy agreementwith the United Kingdom,

Newsom has racked up close to $136,000 in travel-related expenses in 2026 through his PAC, Campaign for Democracy — plus another $58,000 on venue rentals and a whopping $1.6 millionbuying up copies of his own book, “Young Man in a Hurry.”

Newsom’s book PR blitz, a time-worn tactic for presidential hopefuls, took him throughkey Democratic primary stateslike Nevada and South Carolina as well as New York City, Austin, Miami Atlanta, Nashville, and Boston.

Newsom’s PAC recorded thousands in charges throughout March at choice hotels like the Intercontinental Boston, New York City’s Le Méridien and the Four Seasons hotels in Las Vegas and Palm Beach.

In Atlanta, Newsom’s PAC spent $16,500 renting the Georgia State University Rialto Center for a book talk with Atlanta Mayor Andre Dickens — where he was pilloried for quoting his960 SAT scorein an effort to sound relatable. That was followed by four charges at the Candler, a historic art deco hotel in downtown Atlanta.

Newsom also notched four separate charges of $657.61 at the Four Seasons Las Vegas, two bills amounting to $4,346 at Le Meridien Fifth Avenue and a $1350 charge at the Intercontinental Boston, according to Federal Election Commission records.

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