So called “San Francisco values” — the super-charged term Republicans used for years to campaign against Democrats not just in California, but nationwide — could be meeting its Waterloo by the time 2026 rolls around.

It’s because there is now a real possibility Kamala Harris, since she’s taken running for Governor of California off the table, could be seriously mulling a run for the White House.

And to get there, she’d need to secure the nomination which will involve battling Gavin Newsom.

There are other ‘leading candidates”, which is what will put “San Francisco values” to the ultimate test.

Emerson College, in a poll released Friday noted, J.D. Vance held single leads other three likely Democratic candidates — Pete Buttigieg, Newsom, and Alexandria Ocasario-Cortez.

Harris is the Democrat currently with the highest national name recognition. She wasn’t included in the polling as there were those who thought she’d try to run for governor instead.

It is kind of early and Harris has made sounds like she’s done with elective office while vowing to continue “the fight.”

If you believe she really means that she isn’t taking a serious look at a second run for the presidency, then you also believe if you send a $10,000 money order to Uganda that you are going to secure a 50 percent share of a $1 million winning lottery ticket.

Not only would that mean there would be two Californians duking it out for the Democratic Party nomination in 2028, but both have deep political roots in San Francisco.

Both are natives of the Bay Area.

The 60 year-old Harris was born in Oakland. The 57 year-old Newsom was born in San Francisco.

So how would it be Waterloo time for “San Francisco values”?

San Francisco, in today’s big cities where Democrats rule the roost, now looks like a conservative burg in comparison.

Portland and Seattle make San Francisco — with 6 percent of its registered voters identifying as Republican — that is pulling back from the abyss of the homeless, drugs, and crime with little or no consequence look downright conservative.

Then there is Zohran Mamdani. He’s the Democratic nominee for New York mayor who holds a 26 pendent lead over his nearest competitor in the latest poll.

Mamdani is somewhere over the socialist rainbow to the left of AOC.

The problem, of course, is whoever wins the Democratic nominee for president is going to have to run a bit more toward the middle than they do in party primaries.

Although the coastal states loathe the political pull the so-called flyover states have in determining the outcome of presidential elections, there is more than a kernel of truth to the age old question: “Will it play in Peoria?”

This might come as a shock to some conservative voters, but “San Francisco values” might be the emerging middle ground in American politics.

San Francisco David Lurie is clearly to the right of AOC and Mamdani.

Newsom started his political career in 1996 when then San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown appointed to that city’s Parking and Traffic Commission.

It’s the same Willie Brown that Harris widely credits as being her political mentor.

Brown appointed Newsom to a vacancy on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors the next year.

Then in 1998, he won election to the board seat and served until 2011 when he was elected mayor of San Francisco.

It was in 2004 as San Francisco mayor that Newsom put his political career on the line saying same sex marriages would be legally performed in the city.

Newsom was lieutenant governor from 2011 to 2018.

He was elected governor in 2018 and will be termed out at the end of 2026.

Harris started as an Alameda County prosecutor before moving to the DA’s office in San Francisco.

She was elected San Francisco DA in 2003.

Then in 2011, she was elected as Attorney General of California.

She served in that capacity until 2018 when she gained election to the U.S. Senate where she served for four years.

Then, in 2018, Joe Biden chose her as his running mate after she had dropped out of the race for the Democratic nominee for the presidency.

That brings her resume up to last year’s late minute, 107-day run as the Democratic Party’s candidate to occupy the White House.

Before the usual pack of hyenas start tearing Harris’ record apart, there were tough on crime steps - including preemptive measures —  that she took as San Francisco DA and as attorney general.

One included championing a state law that led to the prosecution — and even jailing — of some parents of habitually truant students.

Parental prosecutions aside, there were positive outcomes such as reduced truancy.

That, in turn, supposedly led to better outcomes for students involved meaning they were  less likely to start a criminal career or being on the public dole for life.

Harris, since she was running in presidential primaries where the candidate that can lean the most to the left without offending that party’s base wins, ended up apologizing for her “regrettable actions” on truancy.

She also has the luxury of being succeeded as DA of San Francisco County by George Gascon, the poster boy of the restorative justice movement.

Now for the political punch line.

All things considered, either Newsom or Harris could emerge as the candidate to be the Democratic Party’s best chance at what would be perceived as a “moderate” to go after voters leaning toward Vance.

Newt Gingrich might be shaking his head at that one, but compared to the rest of the potential Democratic field, Newsom and Harris aren’t on the outer limits of the left.

And, if you stop looking at the world through Trump tinted glasses, Vance isn’t so far to the right as he is painted.

It will be interesting when March of 2028 rolls around, if Newsom and Harris are in a horse race.