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Trump Can Make California Great Again
Townhall.com ^ | June 16, 2019 | Carl Jackson

Posted on 06/16/2019 4:02:22 AM PDT by Kaslin

Californians, what do you have to lose by voting for Trump?! It’s time for Democrats to defend the consequences of their democratic socialist policies that have ruined the state!

After visiting my hometown of Los Angeles, California a couple of weeks ago, for the first time in decades, I returned to Florida absolutely convinced that Donald Trump and the Republican Party could recapture the state if the president would take Rush Limbaugh’s advice and campaign there. Everything that’s wrong with California is the fault of Democrats! They can’t blame Republicans for the mess they’ve created there! It’s a one-party state! Can you think of anyone better than President Trump that can spotlight the left-wing policies that have wreaked havoc on the citizens of California? I can’t.

Whether it’s homelessness, unaffordable housing, illegal immigration, abandoning efficient and affordable fossil fuel energy that has created wealth and career opportunities for middle-class Americans, an erosion of their middle class, or the lack of true diversity that exist in the state because Republicans and people of faith are bullied and censored, it’s time for someone to draw attention to Democrats’ failure in California. Why not Trump? Why not now?

Think about this. If Democrats have the audacity to try and take back Texas that’s a successful red state, why don’t we have the cajones to take back California, a failing blue state?

Despite spending billions of dollars to fix California’s homelessness crisis, it’s worse than ever! According to ABC News in a column, in Los Angeles County alone, the homelessness crisis rose 12 percent in the last year under Garcetti’s underwhelming leadership to a total of 58,936 people. Furthermore, the streets of San Francisco are a mess, literally! They had to hire a “Poop Patrol” to clean up human feces on their streets because Democratic politicians refuse to enforce public urination and loitering laws that are already on the books.

On top of that, unaffordable housing in California is preventing middleclass Americans from obtaining the American Dream of buying a home and securing a decent retirement for themselves. Even the jobs of some unionized labor, such as the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW), are being threatened by big city mayors that have embraced Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s Green New Deal. Moreover, low-skilled and entry level workers are forced to compete for jobs and wages with illegal aliens. The gap between the rich and poor is widening there. And now, Governor Gavin Newsom wants to force California residents to buy health care for illegal aliens when legal residents can’t afford it for their own families because Obamacare destroyed the industry. When will California voters say enough is enough?

It’s obvious that Democratic elitists in California think their voters are too dumb to think for themselves. That’s why they employed the “jungle primary” system, that allows the top two winners to go to the primary election, even if they’re both Democrats. Not only does this drown out competing political ideas from the GOP and other parties, preventing voters from having a real choice between candidates, but it also explains why California continues to creep further left to their detriment, and why they’ve become so intolerant of anyone that doesn’t subscribe to the liberal group think.

But it wasn’t always that way in California. There was a time when Republicans had a lock on the state. According to a 2016 column in the L.A. Times, in virtually every presidential election from 1952 through 1988 Republicans won the state. What changed? According to the column it was the surge of Latino and Asian immigrants in the 1990s that were unhappy with the GOP stance on immigration.

Although it would be a Herculean task for the GOP to win back California, it’s not impossible with Trump. The jobs and lifestyles of “legal” immigrants there are threatened by left-wing policies, including amnesty for “illegal” immigrants too. Furthermore, all of the failed policies of the left are on full display for the entire nation to see, if only someone would put them under a microscope. There’s no Republican politician in California with a platform large enough to expose Democrats’ failed policies in California. Trump has the pulpit and the courage. We should utilize his microphone and his courage to make California great again.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; US: California
KEYWORDS: 2ndamendment; abortion; banglist; buildthefence; california; daca; dreamact; dreamers; electoralcollege; faithlesselectors; gavinnewsom; genderdysphoria; globalwarminghoax; greennewdeal; homosexualagenda; incometaxes; infanticide; losangeles; medicareforall; nationalpopularvote; npv; nra; obamacare; presidenttrump; prop209; proposition209; sanfrancisco; secondamendment; taxcutsandjobsact; taxreform; tcja
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To: Elsie

” But most of the folks that WOULD vote for Trump and conservative values have already LEFT the state!”

The state that cast the third highest number of votes for Trump was California.


61 posted on 06/16/2019 7:00:53 AM PDT by Pelham (Secure Voter ID. Mexico has it, because unlike us they take voting seriously)
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To: Kaslin

California is the fault of Democrats that’s why the only culture you will find in California is bacteria.


62 posted on 06/16/2019 7:01:51 AM PDT by Vaduz (women and children to be impacIQ of chimpsted the most.)
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To: Pelham

I agree with you—except for the idea that IBM would/could create tamper-proof voter IDs.


63 posted on 06/16/2019 7:02:24 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: Kaslin

Personally, I think he should campaign there and hold a couple of rally’s. Not to win the state, because that would take a miracle, but to siphon off enough votes to help him with the totals in the popular vote. My hope is that he wins the electoral again in a landslide but wins the popular vote as well.


64 posted on 06/16/2019 7:03:43 AM PDT by TheRake
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To: Popman
"They are home...ask any California democrat Florida Republican Governor named Bush. Or Florida Republican Senator named Rubio .
65 posted on 06/16/2019 7:06:03 AM PDT by Pelham (Secure Voter ID. Mexico has it, because unlike us they take voting seriously)
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To: morphing libertarian

“Amazing all politicians representing Hispanic black and poor areas should loudly oppose illegals”

They do just the opposite.

We used to have a great black immigration activist here in California named Terry Anderson. He died much too soon. He would have loved Trump.

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=terry+anderson+south+central


66 posted on 06/16/2019 7:13:38 AM PDT by Pelham (Secure Voter ID. Mexico has it, because unlike us they take voting seriously)
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To: 9YearLurker

“I agree with you—except for the idea that IBM would/could create tamper-proof voter IDs.”

Someone did it for Mexico. My memory is that it was IBM, but if not them then it was another major corporation and it does work.


67 posted on 06/16/2019 7:17:24 AM PDT by Pelham (Secure Voter ID. Mexico has it, because unlike us they take voting seriously)
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To: Pelham

No need. Retina scan.


68 posted on 06/16/2019 7:20:19 AM PDT by mad_as_he$$
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To: fieldmarshaldj; bitt; NFHale; LS; ZULU; vette6387; Jane Long; Liz; SkyPilot

Judicial Watch is investigating CA voter fraud especially ballot harvesting. LA was just forced to remove 1.5 million off their voter rolls because of a Judicial Watch lawsuit.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2018/12/judicial-watch-investigating-ballot-harvesting-in-california-where-gop-lost-7-of-14-house-seats-after-election-day/

“...It was also reported that over 5,000 out-of-state voters may have voted for Hillary Clinton on election day in New Hampshire because the state allows same-day registration.

On Monday Judicial Watch founder and president Tom Fitton told an audience that at least 900,000 illegal aliens voted in the midterm elections...”


69 posted on 06/16/2019 7:27:46 AM PDT by ExTexasRedhead
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To: ExTexasRedhead

900,000 is EXACTLY WHY they scream over voter ID laws, you have to have ID for ANY kind of banking or cashing checks this BS about ID suppressing the vote makes me want to SCREAM Trump needs to move on this immediately AND this vote harvesting NEEDS to be illegal!!!!!


70 posted on 06/16/2019 7:32:46 AM PDT by Trump Girl Kit Cat (Yosemite Sam raising hell)
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To: Kaslin

They have to start the ball rolling, can’t do it from the outside if they keep electing douche bags


71 posted on 06/16/2019 7:35:19 AM PDT by ronnie raygun (nicdip.com)
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To: Pelham

How do you know it works?


72 posted on 06/16/2019 7:44:41 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: Does so

Are you kidding me? Do we have ENOUGH secret service to protect him in enemy territory? They would need the Secret Service and the military before I would let him go.


73 posted on 06/16/2019 7:48:03 AM PDT by MagnoliaB ( You can't always get what you want but if you try sometime you will find you get what you need.)
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To: silverleaf

I would love to see Trump hold rallies in California and in Chicago. Right in the projects. Boston and NYC, too.

I agree, though I’m afraid it might just kick off CWII.


74 posted on 06/16/2019 8:02:47 AM PDT by Pravious
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To: Kaslin

If the popular vote state initiatives win out, then Trump must campaign in California in order to increase his popular vote count, even if he will not win the state.


75 posted on 06/16/2019 8:09:30 AM PDT by Vince Ferrer
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To: fieldmarshaldj
Thanks fieldmarshaldj.

76 posted on 06/16/2019 8:19:45 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: Kaslin; All
"It’s time for Democrats to defend the consequences of their democratic socialist policies that have ruined the state!"

This is why patriots need to elect a new patriot Congress in the 2020 elections that will not only promise to support PDJT’s vision for MAGA, but will also promise to do its constitutionally enumerated duty to guarantee each state a republican form of government.

"Article IV, Section 4: The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government [emphasis added], and shall protect each of them against Invasion; and on Application of the Legislature, or of the Executive (when the Legislature cannot be convened) against domestic Violence."

Remember in November 2020!

MAGA! Not Democratic MADA (Make America Dead Again).


77 posted on 06/16/2019 8:40:24 AM PDT by Amendment10
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To: Democrats hate too much

The author, chill’run, is doing
what’s called shouting at clouds.


78 posted on 06/16/2019 9:15:04 AM PDT by sparklite2 (Don't mind me. I'm just a contrarian.)
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To: Kaslin

I certainly hope someone influential reads these comments. I live of Crazyfornia. Rush is RIGHT, POUT should come to Cali and campaign...

The MSM would have no choice but to cover it and it would highlight the extreme policies that the Dems want to institutionalize across our country.

First Driver’s License for illegals, that was two years ago. Now they voted to give state healthcare to illegals. It’s all about transforming California into a refugee state sucking in Billions of Federal aid.


79 posted on 06/16/2019 9:23:50 AM PDT by Gorio1961 (Mr. President, please campaign in California...)
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To: MagnoliaB
Mine was a rhetorical question.

I'd want to add his existing private-security AND the military, too!

80 posted on 06/16/2019 9:29:25 AM PDT by Does so (A mysterious nuclear explosion would have the fingerprints of Uranium One!)
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