Former LA mayor and state Assembly speaker Antonio Villaraigosa hasn’t run the most electrifying campaign for governor. But he has been doing an admirable job in recent weeks of highlighting …
Former LA mayor and state Assembly speaker Antonio Villaraigosa hasn’t run the most electrifying campaign for governor. But he has been doing an admirable job in recent weeks of highlighting the most important reality in this campaign: California can’t blame Donald Trump for its problems.with MS NOW .
“We have the highest homelessness in the United States of America, the highest gas prices, the highest utilities, the highest home prices. People can’t afford rent. And those happened under Democratic policies,” he concluded. Antonio Villaraigosa smiles during a California gubernatorial debate hosted by CNN at East Los Angeles College in Monterey Park.
Villaraigosa is not about to put on a MAGA hat. He called Trump a “threat to democracy” in the same interview. Take the gas tax, for example. As The California Post has pointed out on many occasions, the high price at the pump is partly the result of the Iran war.
But California’s gas prices were already higher than those of the rest of the country. And they are still much higher than in other states. One side wants to change California’s policies, and the people in charge of them.
Among the Democratic candidates for governor, the real contest has been, at times, who can boast the most aggressive anti-Trump credentials. That was why Eric Swalwell was doing so well, before he crashed out of the race amid sexual misconduct allegations. No one doubted his obsessive hatred of the president. With Swalwell’s demise, Xavier Becerra rose to the top, touting a record of fighting Trump in court .
Trump is not responsible for the fact that California has a disproportionate number of the nation’s poor and homeless. Trump is not responsible for the fact that middle-class families have beenBecause in two years, Trump will be gone. And there will be no one left to blame.
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