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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
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To: Trump Girl Kit Cat; 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!!!!”

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Maybe this is why DJT hasn’t tamped down the faux information that ‘Russia hacked our election’ - maybe he is waiting to drop an EO about voter ID..


81 posted on 06/16/2019 10:10:12 AM PDT by bitt (I donate all my chips to erecting electric bleachers in Gitmo!)
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To: Whenifhow; null and void; aragorn; EnigmaticAnomaly; kalee; Kale; 2ndDivisionVet; azishot; ...

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82 posted on 06/16/2019 10:10:56 AM PDT by bitt (I donate all my chips to erecting electric bleachers in Gitmo!)
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To: TalBlack

Agreed,
Trump could demonstrate
Californias’ demise to the Rest
of the Nation and perhaps pull
Out a Miracle Win!


83 posted on 06/16/2019 10:11:26 AM PDT by Big Red Badger (Despised by the Despicable!)
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To: bitt

The Democrats will make California Mexico Again.


84 posted on 06/16/2019 10:11:59 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: LibertyOh

Understand how deep the fraud runs in California that NO Republican candidate for federal office has defeated a Democrat incumbent since 1994. That is hundreds of races. The statistical probability of that happening is next to impossible. The GOP held 26 out of 52 seats going into the 1996 elections and have been systematically driven down to an appalling SEVEN out of (now) 53 seats (55 including the Senators).

I don’t trust the election results in California whatsoever.


85 posted on 06/16/2019 10:29:36 AM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (Who will think of the gerbils ? Just say no to Buttgiggity !)
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To: fieldmarshaldj

Nope. Nothing is impossible. If Jeff Sessions had done his job and arrested the CA SecState when they blocked the Feds from getting the voter files, we’d be 50% of the way there.


86 posted on 06/16/2019 12:16:24 PM PDT by LS ("Castles made of sand, fall in the sea . . . eventually" (Hendrix))
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To: Pravious
[Fed up Californians] Clearly not, given the elections.

I think many stay home on election day with a "What'the use?" attitude. Perhaps a visit or two by President Trump would energize the survivors to the point that they might vote in some down-ballot candidates. It might even encourage some of those candidates to run for office if they see there's a distant, as compared to none, chance of winning.

87 posted on 06/16/2019 1:32:33 PM PDT by Oatka
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To: MV=PY
If he doesn’t win CA, every second he spends campaigning there is a waste.

I see a couple of wins here. A rally or two is bound to pull out the remaining Republicans and Independents, resulting in a massive turnout and scaring the crap out of the Democrats, so:
1) The Democrats panic, sucking money in to a "safe" state that would otherwise have been used against Republicans elsewhere.
2) The rallies would energize the "forgotten voter" (Hey! They remembered us!"). President Trump has no chance to win the state, but out-of-the-closet voters might put some down-ballot Republican representative in Congress.

88 posted on 06/16/2019 1:42:15 PM PDT by Oatka
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To: Kaslin

As good as Trump is I do not think making California good again is possible. Too many years of fags a liberals in control of the state


89 posted on 06/16/2019 1:49:36 PM PDT by okie 54
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To: Oatka

Good point.


90 posted on 06/16/2019 2:00:56 PM PDT by Pravious
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To: Kaslin

I hope he has a rally in California, maybe the northern part. Maybe there are some in Hollywood who would go and support him. Time for them to come out of the closet.


91 posted on 06/16/2019 2:02:47 PM PDT by MomwithHope (Forever grateful to all our patriots, past, present and future)
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To: Pravious

“There has to be a silent majority of fed-up, hard-working citizens...”

There is, and they’re not registered to vote.
The notion that Californians—all or most of them— are voting demoocrat, simply is erroneous.
Fact is, most adult citizens ELIGIBLE to vote, aren’t even registered.
That’s true all over the US.

Why wont Republicans mount large scale voter registration drives, as Democrats do?

Why arent we setting up tables, handing out blank registration cards, at Trump rallies?

Why arent we asking attendees at every Trump rally to personally pledge to register at least 10 new voters in their neighborhoods?


92 posted on 06/16/2019 2:06:50 PM PDT by mumblypeg (I've seen the Future, brother. It is murder.. --L. Cohen)
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To: Oatka
"1) The Democrats panic, sucking money in to a "safe" state that would otherwise have been used against Republicans elsewhere. 2) The rallies would energize the "forgotten voter" (Hey! They remembered us!"). President Trump has no chance to win the state, but out-of-the-closet voters might put some down-ballot Republican representative in Congress. "

Agreed! #2 was already mentioned after my post in the thread. But making the Dems spend in CA is another upside.

Good points all.

93 posted on 06/16/2019 2:09:05 PM PDT by MV=PY (The Magic Question: Who's paying for it?)
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To: 9YearLurker

“How do you know it works?”

There’s been plenty of reporting on it here in California. Mexico has had their tamper proof voter ID system that allows Mexicans to vote from outside the country for over 20 years. If the system didn’t work then PAN would be raising hell and accusing the PRI of stealing elections like they did for 80 years.

https://www.politifact.com/texas/statements/2015/aug/26/sid-miller/sid-miller-says-voters-mexico-must-have-tamper-pro/

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/261079250_Electronic_Voting_System_in_Mexican_Elections


94 posted on 06/16/2019 2:25:06 PM PDT by Pelham (Secure Voter ID. Mexico has it, because unlike us they take voting seriously)
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To: fieldmarshaldj

“Understand how deep the fraud runs in California that NO Republican candidate for federal office has defeated a Democrat incumbent since 1994. “

The 1986 Amnesty gave amnestied illegals the right to vote after 10 years. 1996.

The fact that no Republican in California has defeated an incumbent Democrat since the time that former illegals began voting is not a coincidence.

It is a testament to Republican Establishment stupidity and their endless babbling about how Mexican immigrants are “conservatives” who will vote for them. You can’t fix stupid.


95 posted on 06/16/2019 2:44:25 PM PDT by Pelham (Secure Voter ID. Mexico has it, because unlike us they take voting seriously)
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To: LS

Has Barr requested those voter files?


96 posted on 06/16/2019 2:45:27 PM PDT by Pelham (Secure Voter ID. Mexico has it, because unlike us they take voting seriously)
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To: Oatka

“I think many stay home on election day with a “What’the use?” attitude”

There’s truth to that, and plenty of the blame belongs to the national GOP.

In the 2014 California primary, conservatives were backing tea party favorite Tim Donnelly.

The national GOP came in and savaged Donnelly, even saying that if he was nominated that it would cost elections all over the country. Some of those savaging Donnelly were Mitt Romney, Jeb Bush, Condoleezza Rice, Karl Rove, Pete Wilson and Darrell Issa, plus assorted GOPe mouthpieces like Hugh Hewitt and Michael Medved.

The guy that the GOPe managed to get nominated for governor was Neel Kashkari, a Hindu version of Obama, making him irresistible to the Obama-lite wing of the GOP. Kashkari even admitted voting for Obama.

See if this sounds like a Republican you would vote for:

“On social issues, he (Kashkari) has described himself as libertarian and “a different kind of Republican”, supporting abortion rights, same-sex marriage, and a path to legal status for illegal immigrants. He voted against California’s Proposition 8, which banned same-sex marriage in 2008. In 2013, he was one of 131 Republicans who signed a pro-marriage equality amicus curiae brief submitted to the U.S. Supreme Court as part of Hollingsworth v. Perry, the case in which the final appeal against the previously-found unconstitutionality of Proposition 8 was rejected for lack of standing. Kashkari owns four guns but considers waiting periods and background checks before purchasing a firearm to be reasonable.”

“On environmental issues, he voted against California’s Proposition 23, which would have suspended the state law that limits greenhouse gas emissions. He believes climate change is real and man-made. He has spoken positively of fracking and offshore oil drilling and negatively of California’s cap-and-trade program.”

Kashkari cites Paulson, Mitch Daniels, and Jeb Bush as political mentors.[49] He voted for Obama in the 2008 presidential election and Romney in the 2012 election.”


97 posted on 06/16/2019 3:06:40 PM PDT by Pelham (Secure Voter ID. Mexico has it, because unlike us they take voting seriously)
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To: Trump Girl Kit Cat; NFHale; vette6387; bitt; ZULU; null and void; Jane Long; SkyPilot

Voter fraud is the only reason that Hitlery got the votes she claims she got. Take the voter fraud out of 2016 and Hitlery didn’t win anything. The 2018 midterms giving the RATs the House was the result of 24/7 organized voter fraud funded by Soros.

Many more than just Tom Fitton and Judicial Watch must start investigating voter fraud! Retired Deplorables should organize teams of retired LEOs and military veterans to work on the investigation, documenting, and exposing voter fraud. There must be a national hotline that is manned 24/7 for American citizens to report suspected voter fraud. We must be assured that all reports will be investigated & prosecuted.

https://welovetrump.com/2019/01/29/voter-fraud-judicial-watch-estimates-900000-illegal-votes-were-cast-in-2018-midterms/

https://www.bizpacreview.com/2019/01/04/judicial-watch-wins-suit-california-forced-to-remove-up-to-1-5-million-inactive-voters-and-clean-up-its-rolls-709972

https://www.rt.com/usa/398955-california-voter-fraud-report/

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/03/judicial-watch-founder-tom-fitton-i-estimate-at-least-900000-illegal-aliens-voted-in-midterms-video/

“...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 & pres Tom Fitton told an audience that at least 900,000 illegal aliens voted in the midterm elections...”

VOTER FRAUD?

Judicial Watch Estimates 900,000 Illegal Votes Were Cast In 2018 Midterms!
welovetrump.com


98 posted on 06/16/2019 3:07:11 PM PDT by ExTexasRedhead
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To: Pelham

Solid national IDs can definitely help in voting, and most Latin American countries have long required their citizens to carry national ID cards more generally.

But there really aren’t totally secure electronic voting machines out there. Lots of styles of documented fraud, from “fractional voting” to vendors literally loading PC Anywhere into their machines before shipping them out, so party bosses can simply pass in the general area of the machines and change votes from their mobiles, to pretty much any encryption being hackable and all kinds of other shenanigans that have gone on, including in the countries back in the years that your article quotes as examples of secure voting. I’m sorry, but just look at who owns most of the voting machine companies, as well.

E.g., I see Scytl provides Mexico with online voting capabilities. Lots of vulnerabilities found there, including a back door to their system for Switzerland. Here is an article that discusses some of the ties of the company to international intelligence organizations:

https://columbusfreepress.com/article/scytl-has-all-tools-it-needs-election-fraud

But there is plenty more you can find online.


99 posted on 06/16/2019 3:55:32 PM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: Pelham

Not to my knowledge. But it wasn’t really his baliwick. Kobach’s group was disbanded because Sessions didn’t enforce.


100 posted on 06/16/2019 3:58:12 PM PDT by LS ("Castles made of sand, fall in the sea . . . eventually" (Hendrix))
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