Oh yeah.
One could say that's at least partly because the "democrat brand" is in the toilet now. But I prefer to hope it's something bigger than the dreadful Biden-Harris era having just ended: most people are beginning to see that democrats are simply (in more ways than one) wrong about EVERYTHING.
That goes beyond being laughably low-information, which we see every day. It's much more than the twisted, soda-straw view of the world as seen through CNN and MSNBC. It's a limited, crippled, emotional thought process which always manages to get the important facts wrong.
That's why so many people have left the Party since 2021, and that's why Gavin Newsom probably isn't going anywhere.