Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) called the media speculation that he and former Vice President Kamala Harris do not like each other “preposterous,” but added that she typically steps forward first politically.

The two California natives have long fielded theories that, though they run in the same liberal circles, they are not close friends. Axios’s Alex Thompson pressed Newsom on the notion that they don’t like one another on Thursday, pointing out that Newsom did not give a speech at her nominating convention and that Harris took a dig at him in her book 107 Days.