Trump Starts Attacking California…Dem Congressman Robert Garcia RESPONDS
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Why is Donald Trump targeting California Governor Gavin Newsom?
Gear up for a fight, folks, because Donald Trump is already making posts attacking California Governor Gavin Newsom. Donald Trump, who's now the president-elect. If you thought, oh, the tone is gonna change, he's calling Gavin Newsome Gavin Newsom again. I mean, how just embarrassing and humiliating for our country just to have someone in the top office who behaves that way. You know that we previously reported yesterday that Gavin Newsom said, look, we're going to call an emergency legislative session in California to make sure that fundamental rights and freedoms are protected. That's all Gavin Newsome said. And most governors are basically saying: look, while Hope Springs is eternal, we need to protect our people.
And if you're going to attack our state, you're going to have to go through me, Gavin Newsom. And put out a statement like that. Governor Pritzker put out a statement like that. And now Donald Trump is doing this. Governor Gavin New Scum is trying to kill our nation's beautiful California for the first time ever. More people are leaving than are coming in. He's using the term Trump roof as a way of stopping all of the great things that can be done to make California great again. But I just overwhelmingly won the election. People are being forced to leave due to his and others all in caps. Insane Policy decisions like the ridiculously rerouting of millions of gallons of water a day from the north out into the Pacific Ocean rather than using it free of charge for the towns, cities, and farms dotted all throughout California.
He goes on to say they are making it impossible to build reasonably priced cars. The unchecked and unbalanced homeless catastrophe and the cost of everything, all in caps, in particular groceries, is out of control.
What specific policies does Trump criticize about California’s water and housing issues?
And he puts groceries and quotes for Some reason. Also, as an agent for the United States of America on voting in elections, I will be demanding that voter ID and proof of citizenship are a necessary part and component of the voting process. Of course, all of this an attack on California. He's previously threatened he was going to withhold aid from California. I want to bring in California Congress member Robert Garcia, a congressman. Thanks for listening to that intro and still being here. Um But we need you here. We need you in the fight. So let me get your response to that and tell us what our Democrats and Congress going to do. What are you gonna do to to push back on that?
Yeah, happy to be here. Um I I was just communicating with our governor um just yesterday and honestly thanking him for uh you know diving in and protecting the state and protecting all of the folks that are here and being a national leader on the pushback against uh Trump and Trumpism. And I I think what's what's really important at this moment is one that we recognize that we lost. Uh we lost the presidential election. Very hard. I'm proud of the vice president, proud of what she was able to do. Um, but we have a lot of reflection and retrospection, and we have a lot of work to do ahead to ensure that we we go back to winning these presidential elections. Now, look, it's also not all lost.
How does Congressman Robert Garcia respond to Trump’s attacks on California?
We won some Senate seats across the country. We won Michigan, we won Wisconsin, we won Arizona, we won Nevada. Uh, the House, uh, there wasn't some some red way where we somehow lost the House of Representatives. And so I would say that we absolutely have to take stock in our losses, but also know that this is still a divided country. So Democrats have to at this moment. Do the right thing. Reflect, take some time for ourselves. But when we come back in the next few days, as we begin to take stock of what Donald Trump and his win actually means, we have to fight back. We have it's more than just resisting, it's fighting back against Donald Trump. And so I think that what he is going to do, he's made clear already.
California is going to push back really, really hard. I'm certainly going to be involved in that effort alongside our governor and our other members of Congress.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
Why is Donald Trump targeting California Governor Gavin Newsom?
0:00–1:38
2
What specific policies does Trump criticize about California’s water and housing issues?
1:38–2:56
3
How does Congressman Robert Garcia respond to Trump’s attacks on California?
2:56–4:35
4
What lessons does the guest say Democrats should learn from the 2024 election loss?
4:35–6:09
5
Why does the guest emphasize fighting back rather than just resisting Trump?
6:09–7:43
6
How can Democrats win the information war and combat misinformation?
7:43–8:52
7
What new communication strategies does the guest propose for reaching voters?
8:52–10:06
8
How will the podcast network help amplify the Democratic message moving forward?
10:06–10:46
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