California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) rebuked President Trump throughout a go to to South Carolina on Tuesday, vowing, “we can not let him win.”
Newsom mentioned throughout the first day of a two-day journey within the Palmetto State that the folks of the nation are experiencing “America in reverse,” saying that the Trump administration is attempting to convey the nation again to a “pre-Nineteen Sixties world” on points together with voting rights, civil rights, LGBTQ rights and ladies’s rights.
“We can not let him win,” he advised a crowd throughout a cease in Kershaw County. “We can not permit him to win. That’s why I’m right here.”
Newsom revealed final week that he would go to South Carolina Tuesday and Wednesday as a part of a tour known as “On the Street With Governor Gavin Newsom.” His go to comes amid hypothesis that he’ll search the Democratic nomination for president in 2028.
The state was the primary to vote within the Democratic nominating course of in 2024 and can doubtless be one of many first states to carry a main once more in 2028. Observers might be watching nationwide figures’ visits to states like South Carolina, Iowa and New Hampshire as doable indicators of presidential ambitions.
Newsom has more and more taken on a bigger nationwide platform over the previous couple of years and has been rumored to be a doable presidential candidate since earlier than the 2024 election. He and Trump have confronted off on a number of events denouncing one another as a part of an ongoing feud.
Newsom mentioned throughout the look that he had simply left Los Angeles, the place Trump deployed hundreds of Nationwide Guard troops to handle protests in opposition to raids that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has been conducting. He mentioned he hoped that Trump would put out an announcement recognizing the anniversary of a winter wildfire that claimed 30 lives, notably as main flooding has claimed greater than 100 lives in Texas just lately.
He mentioned he hoped the president would put out an announcement recognizing that the nation had simply celebrated the fourth of July and that the nation is “all on this collectively” and “discover a bit grace, a bit humility.”
However Newsom mentioned Trump as an alternative despatched members of the Nationwide Guard, who had helped California with wildfires up to now, in navy gear and tanks “working down the streets” in MacArthur Park in Los Angeles.
Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass confronted federal brokers on the park on Monday as ICE mentioned it was conducting a “large-scale federal immigration enforcement operation.”
“Not one arrest was made,” Newsom mentioned. “It was an act of cowardliness, and it was an act of cruelty, supposed for one objective, cruelty, to divide us, to make us extra apathetic, to make us extra cynical and extra fearful.”