They have Silicon Valley and the largest population of any US state.
Gavin Newsom gets zero credit for either of these things.
You only have to look at how incredibly badly prepared for and managed the palisade fires were to see the level of incompetence under Gavin Newsom.
The topic is "Marines being mobilized in response to LA protests." The protests are about ICE rounding up people on suspicion of being undocumented immigrants. Whether a place being full of undocumented immigrants is actually a bad thing is extremely salient to the topic, especially when the President has decided it's worth pointing the military's guns at our own citzenry over.
If they're failing, they're failing extremely well. I wonder how we get some of that failure in my part of the country?