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The governor’s latest endeavor is a show coddling right-wing provocateurs. It’s not only cringey, it’s a glib diversion from the job he should be doing.
Conversations with an assortment of residents show most have no clue who’s running in 2026. But they want someone fully committed to the job and not treating the governorship as a stepping stone to the White House.
A rancher living on the border with Mexico says life is less fearful now that hundreds of migrants aren’t crossing his property each day. The latest installment in series on Trump’s America.
Rob Bonta’s parents fled a dictatorship and now he fears one is coming to America. He says battling the Trump administration in court is more important than running for governor in 2026.
Times columnists Mark Z. Barabak and Sammy Roth agree the country has never seen anything like the weeks since Trump took office. Where they differ is how best Democrats should respond.
Rather than confronting Trump, California’s governor is showing restraint and using flattery to ensure the state gets the federal disaster relief it needs and deserves. That’s a smart strategy.
The head of the local party is pushing for results over performative acts and ideological indulgence. Every city, she says, deserves good public schools, safe streets and clean sidewalks.
Trump’s bogus claims about his popularity in the Golden State could be laughed off if he hadn’t threatened tying wildfire relief to an overhaul of the state’s election system. It’s both reckless and cruel.
Republicans have long styled themselves as the party of law and order and ‘backing the blue,’ but Trump freed people who attacked police. How does that make the country safer?
