California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) said his potential presidential run is contingent upon his wife and his four children.Newsom has been rumored as a viable competitor in the 2028 presidential race, and his new memoir, “Young Man in a Hurry: A Memoir of Discovery,” has also added to that speculation. “Last question. What are the metrics that will determine whether you run for president?” CNN’s Dana Bash asked Newsom on “State of the Union” on Sunday.“There’s five of them: Dutch, Brooklyn, Hunter. You get the drill,” Newsom quipped in response. (Newsom’s wife Jennifer Siebel Newsom and his other daughter, Montana, are the other two “metrics.”)“Do they want you to run?” Bash asked.“It depends on the day,” Newsom said, going on to bring up a text message exchange with one of his two sons, though he did not specify which. Newsom described his son asking if he was running for president based on the headline of a news article that had supposedly suggested so. Newsom told his son they would make the decision as a family, but his son told him not to run. “I’m too young. You need to spend more time with us,” Newsom said his son wrote him.“I mean, how do you deal with that one?” Newsom then asked Bash.Bash brought up his new book, in which he mentions that his mother didn’t want him to go into politics.“This is why I was talking about fate,” Newsom said. “It will be done as a family, and it’ll be done as a unit, and it will be done in a partnership with these magnificent creatures.”“I’m just so blessed, the two boys, two girls,” Newsom added. “They’re perfectly imperfect because they’re all composites of everything in the book, me, and they’re all works in progress. But, God, are they beautiful and loving, and they just have huge hearts.”Close