Of course California , one the biggest economies IN THE WORLD, IS Solid Democratic….
That said?
A new POLITICO and its partners.poll is good news for its current Governor , who will/Is running for President in 2028 and bad news for ICE and Homeland…..
Up until recently Gavin Newsom WAS ahead of Kamala Harris in the 2028 Democratic Presidential nomination polls….
Harris has slipped past Newsom ….
Both held office in California , he’s the Governor and she was the states Attorney General before becoming Joe Biden’s Vice President….
On ICE?
Nobody is getting ‘rid’ of ICE…..
But?
Democrats in the Senate ARE holding strong on requiring some changes in how the Trump admin does immigration enforcement…
Their Major demand is for the ‘Mass Deportation’ campaign be abandoned and accountability come to the Homeland Department ‘s enforcement people….(GOPer’s have been told to ‘cool down’ talking about immigration….)
This even as TSA workers (They aren’t getting paid and rumor is if they don’t show up for work?….They could get fired) seem to be doing a work slowdown for those who are flying
This IS early times….
Things don’t get serious for about a year….
But Trump and Republicans have issues in California….
Newsom vs Harris in California…
Gavin Newsom is trouncing Kamala Harris in their home state in a new presidential primary poll by POLITICO and its partners.
The California governor leads Harris, the former vice president, 28 percent to 14 percent among voters leaning toward voting in California’s Democratic presidential primary, the UC Berkeley Citrin Center for Public Opinion Research-POLITICO poll found. Newsom has also opened a commanding lead over other potential candidates, including Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York and former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, at 12 percent and 11 percent, respectively.
“All Democrats want to beat Trump, and Newsom has pushed himself to be the most visible opponent among the potential Democratic candidates,” said Jack Citrin, a University of California Berkeley political science professor and co-director of the poll. “Harris, in some ways, is old news.”
Newsom, a leading early contender nationally for the Democratic nomination, has been positioning himself for a likely run, raising his profile by lacing into President Donald Trump at international events and traveling to key early primary states to promote his new memoir.
Meanwhile, just 41 percent of California registered voters said they would be excited if Harris ran again, a similar share to last summer. That’s further evidence of Democrats looking past Harris — who recently said she “might” run — after her two failed presidential bids. And it isn’t just voters who are wary of a Harris campaign. She struggles even more in a concurrent survey of POLITICO’s audience of key political and policy influencers in the state, including political staffers, lobbyists, policy advisers and others — the kind of people most familiar with the former state attorney general and U.S. senator….
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ICE and California…
California Democrats overwhelmingly want to dismantle Immigration and Customs Enforcement amid backlash to Donald Trump’s mass deportation campaign, according to a new poll by POLITICO and its partners.
The diverse and heavily Democratic state was an early staging ground for the president’s aggressive deployment of federal troops and ICE agents, with the administration’s targeting of Los Angeles previewing a divisive Minnesota operation this winter in which federal agents fatally shot two people.
Partisan rancor toward the White House’s policy stands out in the aftermath, according to a new UC Berkeley Citrin Center for Public Opinion Research-POLITICO poll of California voters. While the state’s Republican minority largely backed Trump, Democrats vehemently opposed his agenda — so much so that two-thirds said ICE should be “completely disbanded” in light of the events in Minnesota.
That sentiment has colored California’s governor race, with Democratic candidates calling for the agency’s dissolution or proposing California refuse to hire ICE agents. But the discomfort with ICE tactics among voters was not restricted to Democrats. Equal two-fifths pluralities of independents said the agency should be either disbanded or reformed, and a third of Republicans said it should be reformed.
“There’s significant concern among people in both parties about the behavior of this organization,” said Amy E. Lerman, a professor of public policy at the University of California, Berkeley who helped design the questions. “It’s hard to know if the ‘disband’ folks are saying we don’t need anyone to do this at a federal level or disband ICE given how rogue or far it’s gone in Minnesota.”….
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The ICE pushback reflected a broader rejection within the state of Trump’s deportation agenda. Substantial majorities of voters opposed deploying federal troops to cities that do not cooperate with federal enforcement (61 percent) and backed offering undocumented immigrants paths to citizenship or permanent residency (62 percent).
Two-thirds said “maintaining California’s economic growth and workforce” was more important than “enforcing immigration laws and removing undocumented immigrants.”….
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