2028 Presidential Race

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If it were Rubio versus Harris I would vote for Rubio. Vance I have concerns about and whether he'd continue as Trump 3.0. But he might be able to get closer to center for me to at least not vote in '28.
 
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California High-Speed Rail Needs $1 Billion More Per Year from Cash-Strapped State to Survive

California's troubled high-speed rail project needs an additional $1 billion per year from the state legislature to survive.
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"As federal funds for California’s high-speed rail project remain suspended, state lawmakers urged the Legislature to approve a $1-billion-per-year investment pulled from cap-and-trade revenue while linking the future of the project to job opportunity across the state.

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The state’s cap-and-trade program requires major polluters to buy credits for carbon dioxide emissions and allows those companies to buy or sell the unused credits at auctions, generating billions in state revenue. Earlier this year, Gov. Gavin Newsom proposed setting aside a large chunk of those funds for high-speed rail.

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The plan to connect the state by fast train is billions of dollars over budget and decades behind schedule. The route from Southern to Northern California was originally proposed for a 2020 completion date, but so far, no stretch of the line has been finished and construction has been limited to the Central Valley."


Well Ol' Gavin can't hang his hat on that.
 
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lawgator1 said:
If it were Rubio versus Harris I would vote for Rubio. Vance I have concerns about and whether he'd continue as Trump 3.0. But he might be able to get closer to center for me to at least not vote in '28.
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That's not saying much. Harris has the charisma of a mannequin. I'd vote for just about anyone over her (within reason).
 
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California Has Nation’s Highest Poverty Rate; Tied with Louisiana​

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Gov. Gavin Newsom, D-Calif., waits to speak to a crowd at a coffee shop during a two-day s
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Joel B. Pollak12 Sep 2025204
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California has the nation’s highest poverty rate, despite boasts by Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) that the state is also the fourth-richest economy in the world.

Newsom declared in April: “California isn’t just keeping pace with the world—we’re setting the pace. Our economy is thriving because we invest in people, prioritize sustainability, and believe in the power of innovation.”
Yet for more than one in six Californians, poverty is the reality of life in Newsom’s state.
The Sacramento Bee reported Thursday:
California continued to have the highest poverty rate in the nation last year at 17.7%, tied only with Louisiana, according to new data released this week by the U.S. Census Bureau. The state’s supplemental poverty measure, or SPM, declined from 2023, when it stood at 18.9%.
Still, the 2024 figure means that nearly 7 million Californians were unable to afford basic necessities like food, housing and medical care.
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The Bee added that California had only managed to see improvements in recent years because of federal largesse: “Laura Pryor, the research director for the California Budget & Policy Center, noted that the state’s poverty rate dropped to a historic low of 11% after federal policies were implemented to help Americans weather the COVID-19 pandemic.”
With the end of federal payments, poverty rose again — and Newsom turned a near-$100 billion surplus into two consecutive years of budget deficits.
California also has the highest unemployment rate, at 5.5% — much worse than Louisiana, at 4.5%. Only the District of Columbia, which is not a state, has a higher rate, at 6.0%.
 
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