Last night on CNN, panelists on the Abby Phillip show were reacting to the debate for California governor between Democrat Xavier Becerra and Republican Steve Hilton.
Scott Jennings, the lone conservative voice on the network, put things into perspective by pointing out that California has been run by Democrat for years and that the current state of the state ‘sucks.’
He suggests that the state is ripe for change and that it will all come down to whether or not voters can get past the politics.
Partial transcript via Red Wave Press:
“California’s one of the rare sort of political experiments in America where the experiment in the lab has been running for so long, there’s no real mystery in how it’s going to turn out.”
“Democrats have been in charge for a very long time, and if Xavier Becerra wins, you know exactly what he’s going to do. He’s going to do precisely what Democrats have been doing. And if you’re happy with homelessness, and you’re happy with the cost of living, and you’re happy with the taxes, and you’re happy with the shadow welfare system that pays illegal aliens hundreds of thousands of dollars a year, that’s what you’ll get.”
“And if you want to do something different, Steve Hilton presented that tonight. I don’t know if any minds were changed, but I think the contours of this debate and this choice are pretty well-established.”
“Democrats are running the state. The state kind of sucks. There is a different alternative, but can he overcome the national political environment?”
Watch the clip below:
Scott Jennings calls it like it is: California has been under Democratic rule for decades, and the results are obvious — high taxes, high prices, homelessness, and crime. It’s time for a CHANGE.
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Democrats don’t want to lose control of California for a lot of reasons, but one of the main ones is that if California elects a Republican after Gavin Newsom, it is going to make it very difficult for Newsom to make a case that he deserves to be president.
Who in the country wants their state to become more like California?
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