The Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom from California claimed that his office had never used the term “Latinx” during a recent interview, but a Fox News Digital Review found this statement incorrect.
“By the way, no one ever in my office used the word Latinx,” said Newsom in his viral podcast episode with Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk.
“I just didn’t even know where it came from. What are people talking about?” he added.
But posts from the governor and official documentation from his office pour cold water on this claim.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom has become viral for comments made in a conversation with conservative activist Charlie Kirk. (Screenshots/This is Gavin Newsom | Getty Images)
In an X -post from 2019, the period in reference to a investigation into poverty in children in his official government account tweeted.
On his personal account, the Californian Democrat used the term when discussing the COVID-19 Pandemie.
“#Covid19 has disproportionately influence on the Latinx community,” he tweeted. “Rising rates in the central valley are worrying. Ca makes $ 52 million available to increase testing, to contact tracing and quarantine people and to send stake teams to 4 provinces with increased cases and hospital admissions.”
In 2023 he said that the Republican party ‘politicians who do not prohibit attack rifles, but forbid the word latinx’.
Brooks AllenEducation policy advisor of the Governor, used “Latinx” in a letter of 2023 about the ethnic study model of the state.
“The model is based on the fundamental curricular areas of the tradition of ethnic studies – Afroamerican studies, Indian studies, Asian/Pacific Islander American Studies and Latinx American Studies,” he wrote at the time.
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The term has also been published in official press releases and documentation from the Newsom office. In October 2020 it was used to promote a conversation that the governor had with singer Becky G about the “Youth voice” That was posted on the website of the official governor.
A month earlier it was used in a press release about accounts with regard to small companies in the Center of the pandemic.
“Companies in minority ownership are disproportionately affected: the number of active companies owned by Afro-Americans decreased by 41%, Latinx by 32%, Asians by 25%and immigrants by 36%,” the release.
The term was used again in 2021 when it came to Tackling learning states Related to pandemic school closures.
“The campaign will contact parents in areas that are most affected by the Pandemie-Before Latinx, African-American, Asian American and Pacific Islander parents with $ 25 million from AB 86 to support the safe opening of schools during the next tax year,” it explained it.
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It is also used on the The webpage of the Governor For first partner Jennifer Seibel Newsom’s “Farm to school” effort.
“Nowadays, more than 2 million children in California have no access to healthy, whole foods, with black and Latinx children who twice report food insecurity that of children in white households,” the website says.
On the website of the Governor’s Council for Career Education, IT Uses the term On the “Summary” research facilities page. A former teaching policy employee for Newsom, who is currently his assistant -Adjunct -Cabinets Secretary, said “Latinx” in a 2021 X Post.
“Economic recovery with higher education that is fairer, more resilient and coordinated to improve the results for black, Latinx, API, native and adult students who are disproportionately denied access and are affected by the pandemic,” said Michael Wiafe.
A spokesperson for the Newsom office told Fox News Digital that “Latinx” “is not a term that is widely used in his administration. Some employees have used it from time to time.”
Turning Point USA leader Charlie Kirk (right) is the guest on California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s (left) inaugural edition of his podcast “This is Gavin Newsom”. (Gavin Newsom/X)
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According to NBC News, in some cases, the term is considered widely unpopular in Latinos and Hispanics and even offensive in some cases.
A research center of Pew Research Center from 2024 noted that 51% of Spanish American adults were not familiar with the term “Latinx” and only 4% actually says the term Gender neutral alternative to Latino.
