Villaraigosa is proper: California can’t blame – Latest News
Former LA mayor and state Assembly speaker Antonio Villaraigosa hasn’t run essentially the most electrifying marketing campaign for governor. But he has been doing an admirable job in latest weeks of highlighting essentially the most important actuality on this marketing campaign: California can’t blame Donald Trump for its issues.
“We can’t put everything on Donald Trump,” he mentioned final weekend in an interview with MS NOW (as soon as generally known as MSNBC, nonetheless as far-left as ever).
“We have the highest homelessness in the United States of America, the highest gas prices, the highest utilities, the highest home prices. People can’t afford rent. And those happened under Democratic policies,” he concluded.
Antonio Villaraigosa smiles during a California gubernatorial debate hosted by CNN at East Los Angeles College in Monterey Park. AP
Villaraigosa is not about to put on a MAGA hat. He known as Trump a “threat to democracy” in the identical interview.
But he is additionally being life like in regards to the issues going through California.
Take the gasoline tax, for instance. As The California Post has identified on many events, the high price on the pump is partly the consequence of the Iran conflict. But California’s gasoline costs had been already larger than these of the remainder of the nation. And they’re nonetheless a lot larger than in different states. (They have an Iran conflict over there, too.)
The midterm election of 2026 is a “change” election.
One facet desires to change California’s insurance policies, and the people in charge of them.
The different facet desires to change Donald Trump, although he’s not on the poll.
Among the Democratic candidates for governor, the actual contest has been, at occasions, who can boast essentially the most aggressive anti-Trump credentials.
President Donald Trump speaks to media on Air Force One. REUTERS
That was why Eric Swalwell was doing so nicely, earlier than he crashed out of the race amid sexual misconduct allegations. No one doubted his obsessive hatred of the president.
With Swalwell’s demise, Xavier Becerra rose to the highest, touting a document of preventing Trump in courtroom (and little else, regardless of years in public life).
But maybe California’s politicians need to offer voters more credit.
Trump is not chargeable for the truth that California has a disproportionate quantity of the nation’s poor and homeless.
Trump is not chargeable for California’s mediocre schooling outcomes and crumbling roads.
Trump is not chargeable for the truth that middle-class households have been leaving California in droves for years.
Democrats need to clarify how California can repair its own issues.
Because in two years, Trump shall be gone. And there shall be no one left to blame.
