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Gov. Gavin Newsom's visit to Fresno County connected Thursday is portion of a wider effort to question to California counties that voted for President-elect Donald Trump during the election, successful hopes of connecting with residents who consciousness frustrated by the economy, the New York Times archetypal reported.
Newsom will beryllium successful Fresno County connected Thursday to marque announcements astir “job instauration and bolstering California’s economy.” The politician besides has plans to sojourn Kern and Colusa counties, according to the Times.
While astir Californians voted for Vice President Kamala Harris, voting information by county shows that residents successful Kern, Tulare, San Bernardino and much inland counties supported Trump much than Harris.
A starring Democrat who has often been viewed arsenic a imaginable 2028 statesmanlike contender, Newsom has agelong criticized Trump. Shortly aft the election, the politician called for a peculiar legislative league to “safeguard” the Golden State’s policies up of Trump’s instrumentality to the White House successful January.
He besides visited Washington, D.C., wherever helium met with members of California’s legislature delegation and cardinal officials successful the Biden-Harris administration.
The actions were criticized by Trump and California Republican legislators.
During an interrogation connected Wednesday, Newsom acknowledged that his enactment needs to larn from the caller predetermination nonaccomplishment and code the struggles of American workers. He noted that countering Republican claims that Democrats had failed working-class residents was critical.
“People are being near behind; their regions are being near behind,” Newsom told the Times. “We arsenic a enactment volition beryllium past if we don’t heed the telephone to code the economy.”
