Gavin Newsom
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And he talked about the vibrancy of newcomers, people coming all over the globe for riches and new beginnings, becoming Americans, and what defines our great nation.
And that's the spirit that defines my mindset.
Getting first-round draft choices around the rest of the world is what makes California so vibrant.
It's because of that diversity, and it's because of people's willingness to dare and to match up with ideas and perspectives and backgrounds to come in to make a go of it that has made California the fourth largest GDP in the world.
But we have failed on the border, and Donald Trump is failing on immigration.
His economic policy is not complicated.
It's tariffs, which is a regressive tax.
It's mass deportations.
which is having a major impact on supply chains.
And you've seen the American jobless rate.
You're seeing it growing, the unemployment rate in America.
Besson didn't talk about this.
They had the worst jobs numbers in the first year of the Trump administration, outside a recession since 2003.
49,000 jobs a month.
The Biden administration last year was averaging 168,000 jobs a month.
Inflation is not lowering.
It's still at 2.7%.
Ask folks what a pound of beef costs in the United States of America or a brand new car.
Everything you heard yesterday was BS.
And it's impacted by these policies of tariffs that are impacting ranchers and farmers and small business folks, a major tax that they celebrate, a tax that they celebrate collecting, which is ironic from a Republican Party.