Eric Swalwell
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And there's no person in America who's more protected by their governor than a Californian by Governor Newsom.
And so the first thing you have to do is show how you're going to protect against a president whose ICE agents are chasing Californians through the fields and factories where people work, who are dragging women by their hair and throwing them into unmarked vans, and who are committing
public executions.
You have to protect the people first.
And I offer in our candidacy 10 years of being in the arena and taking on this guy in every imaginable way from investigations to impeachments to my own lawsuit against him.
That is the only one that survived this new presidency.
It's me in the January six officers, but then also being
in parallel, able to write a new California story on lowering the dam costs.
And you said it.
There are a lot of candidates in this field.
There is a risk right now that two Republicans could get through in a crowded field.
Now, we are at the top consistently in all the polling.
We're consistently the only Democrat that has been in the top two.
But if we had a Republican governor, God forbid, Donald Trump would have a Western
Yeah, you can put your energy in one of two directions, right?
You can put it in the direction of good and growth, growth in wages, growth in economic development, growth in the number of houses in California, or you can put it toward cruelty and evil, as the president and so many others have done.
What I have said I'll focus on on day one
is to tell every agency in the state that they have 90 days to approve or deny every outstanding housing application so that we surge supply.
I've always thought over 20 years in government from being a planning commissioner to a city councilman to a
Deputy District Attorney to Congress that a goal without a deadline is a dream.