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Villaraigosa is right: California can’t blame Trump
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Former LA mayor and state Assembly speaker Antonio Villaraigosa hasn’t run the most electrifying campaign for governor. But he has been doing an admirable job in recent weeks of highlighting the most important reality in this campaign: California can’t blame Donald Trump for its problems.
“We can’t put everything on Donald Trump,” he said last weekend in an interview with MS NOW (once known as MSNBC, still as far-left as ever).
“We have the highest homelessness in the United States of America, the highest gas prices, the highest utilities, the highest home prices. People can’t afford rent. And those happened under Democratic policies,” he concluded.
Villaraigosa is not about to put on a MAGA hat. He called Trump a “threat to democracy” in the same interview.
But he is also being realistic about the problems facing........