Rob Bonta

knowing that we couldn't guarantee he wouldn't be.

And also knowing that we owed our constituents readiness, preparedness, that we could not be caught flat footed, that we couldn't, you know, if Trump got elected say, hey, we were all hoping Kamala would get elected and now we don't know what to do.

We had to know.

And so we listened to everything he said on the campaign trail, his promises, even if it might be bluff or it might be bluster, we took him at his word and assumed he was gonna do it.

And he handed to us a written document that told us what he would do.

Project 2025.

And we reviewed that and looked at all of the plans therein and assumed he was going to engage in trying to manifest those plans.

And my team and our collective teams were tasked with being ready for that.

all of the above, be ready for the Insurrection Act, be ready for the Comstock Act, be ready for all of these sort of fringe theory approaches to seizing power that's not theirs in the, quote unquote, unitary executive and attacking our states and our progress and our policies and our people and our values.

So, you know, there are some things that haven't had to come, haven't come to pass yet.

We've been ready to address for months.

We don't want them to come to pass, but if they do, all we have to do is dot the I's, cross the T's, press print and file our complaint.

And we believe we'll win because we've thought about it and we prepared.

And among our, there are 24 democratic attorneys general.

When Trump was inaugurated, there were 23.

The Virginia AG flipped from,

red to blue in the election in November of last year.

And we communicate every week.

We meet often.

We pick up the phones regularly.