Harris pick sends Trump into a favorite pastime — bashing California
Attacking California, which has served as a conservative boogieman for decades, blurs some of those complications, conjuring images for some voters that Trump has drawn of cities overrun with crime, homeless people and immigrants.
Although Harris is known to Californians, she is relatively unknown on the national stage. She earned Democratic plaudits for her prosecutorial grilling of Trump aides and nominees in Senate Judiciary Committee hearings, but she quit the presidential race last year before the first primary after failing to gain enough support.
“People are hungry. People are scared. People are worried about their jobs,” said Barbara Boxer, who held Harris’ Senate seat for 24 years before retiring in 2017. “If the message from the Republicans is ‘reject Biden and Harris because she’s from California,’ I think that’s the most absurd thing they could do.”
Democrats argue that Trump’s targeting of the state is rooted in resentment that California thrived economically despite overwhelmingly rejecting Trump and his policies. Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton defeated Trump by 30 percentage points in 2016, and Biden is leading polls by“It just happens that California is the most diverse state in the nation, and it sure undermines his framing that we need to go back to the old ways,” said state Atty. Gen.
Madrid said Trump is using the same language that anti-immigrant activists used effectively in California in the 1990s to stoke fear and resentment in their campaign for Proposition 187, which severely restricted the rights of immigrants.“He is stoking fears of people being replaced and America being taken over,” Madrid said.
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