Trump makes swing state voters' view of California a campaign issue

[Zorro]

Not surprisingly, this year’s presidential campaign pitting Vice President Kamala Harris against former President Donald Trump includes a sharp conflict over whether California is a shining model of prosperity and inclusiveness to be emulated or a dystopian hellhole of crime, squalor and oppressive politics.

While deeply blue California has long been a rhetorical punching bag for Trump and other Republicans, it’s even more so this year because it’s Harris’ home state.

“We’re not going to let Kamala Harris do to America what she did to California,” Trump trumpeted during a weekend rally in Coachella, referring to the state as “Paradise Lost.”

Trump ticked off the well-worn list of California’s supposed sins — its embrace of undocumented immigrants, its huge population of homeless people and its regulatory thicket that makes doing business difficult.

https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/2024/10/18/trump-makes-swing-state-voters-view-of-california-a-campaign-issue/

[NCDem47]

1. Yeah. A real hellhole (sarcasm)

https://www.gov.ca.gov/2024/07/18/10-ways-ca-leads-the-nation/#:~:text=Additionally%2C%20California%20has%20one%20of,%2C%20and%20%231%20for%20agriculture.

Some key points from "10 ways California leads the nation" by Gov. Nwsom

California is home to the most Fortune 500 companies – beating out Texas, Florida, and all other states. Travel spending reached an all-time high of $150.4 billion. Plus, leading the next generation, California is home to 35 of the world’s 50 leading AI companies, high-impact research and education institutions, and a quarter of the technology’s patents and conference papers. Additionally, California has one of the most equitable tax systems in the entire country, and is #1 in the nation for new business starts, #1 for access to venture capital funding, #1 for manufacturing, #1 for high-tech, and #1 for agriculture.

California is ranked as the #1 state in the nation for the strength of its gun safety laws — along with some of the lowest rates of gun deaths and gun ownership — by Giffords Law Center and Everytown for Gun Safety.

[wryter2000]

2. If it keeps Trmpies from moving here

They can think what they want.