Candidates for governor face off in first bipartisan clash
Sacramento – At a largely gentle meeting of the best Guernatorial candidate in California, half dozen California, four democrats and two republicanists admitted that although the state had one of the largest economies of the world, its inhabitants suffered from too many states of conformity in the state.
However, their strategies on how to improve the economy of the state, Wednesday evening, Cesrip Gov. In order to replace the Gavin Newsom, on Wednesday evening in the 2026 race, he discussed high -speed railway, tariffs, climate change and homelessness, and he largely adopted different views of his relevant political parties.
Katie Porter, a former representative of Irvine, said, “California are innovative. They are the reason why we have builders, designers, creators and the fourth largest economy of the world.” “But businesses and workers are kept back by the same thing. It is very expensive to do something here. It is very expensive to establish a family. It is very expensive to carry out a job.”
A Republican conservative commentator Steve Hilton argued that unions, lawyers and climate change activists should end their “oddity ..
Orum I go to this situation. Wherever I go, the same story, this heartbreaking word I have taken from every job I met, every family in California in such a struggle, ”he said, it was caused by a throat he explained immediately after he appeared on the stage.
Former representative Katie Porter in the forum, the top row from the left, Riverside County Sharif Chad Bianco and former legislative leader Toni Atkins; Former Mayor of Los Angeles Antonio Villaraigosa, from the left lower row, Lieutenant Gov. Eleni Kounalakis and conservative commentator Steve Hilton.
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Candidates, Sacramento Congress Center in the 80 -minute panel California Chamber of Commerce dinner with about 800 people spoke. The decision of the Chamber on who to be invited to the forum was based on which ones were leaders in public surveys and donations. The deduction was former Senate President Pro Temi Atkins, Riverside County Sharif Chad Bianco, Hilton, Lieutenant Eleni Kounalakis, Porter and former Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa. Former US Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Being was also invited to participate in the forum, but there was a conflict of timing.
The sharpest change of the evening was between the democrat and the Republican Bianco.
After asking the candidates about President Trump’s irregular tariff policies, Kounalakis said that he criticized Bianco for discussing and seeing the President’s wavy plans for his approach to the president’s approach and expressed his father’s work experience for his real estate company.
“You are not a businessman, you are a state employee,” he told Bianco. “You have a pension, you will do very well. Small businesses suffer from this and only worse, and in the meantime, Donald Trump does not like the countries that he does not like, he wants to annex or want to annex or not.
He opposed that Bianco is directly responsible for the economic troubles faced by the County and other democratic Guerniats, California, because they have an unquestionable thirst ”to finance the liberal agendas of money.
“I just feel like I’m in the Twilight Zone. There’s a billionaire who tells me that my 32 -year public service is suitable for my retirement. “Taxes and regulations that raise everything in California. We pay the highest taxes, we pay the highest gas, we pay the highest housing, we pay the highest energy.”
Although the Democrats were largely joining the policy on stage, they tried to differentiate themselves. The sharpest division was about whether it would increase the minimum wage. On Monday, Los Angeles proposed to upgrade workers’ lawyers in Los Angeles County.
Atkins reflected most of his democrats by saying, “Now is not time,” while he wanted to see higher wages for workers. Villaraigosa, while believing in a higher minimum wage, “We can not continue to increase the minimum wage,” he said.
However, Kounalakis said that it would be inhuman to increase the minimum wage.
“I think we should work for this number, yes, I am doing it,” he said. “You want to throw poor people under the bus.”
The high cost of living of California is an emergency concern among state voters, and the problem is expected to play an important role in the 2026 governor’s race.
According to a survey supported by The Times by The Times in May, UC Berkeley in May, almost half felt even worse than last year, and more than half felt less hopeful about economic welfare.
Next year, the Guernatorial first place, almost a year before the first place, the event for the first time the democratic and republican candidates shared a scene. In addition, GOP candidates Bianco and Hilton appeared together.
Although the state’s left election slope makes it difficult for a Republican to win the race – California have chosen GOP politicians in 2006 throughout the state – Bianco and Hilton are fighting to win one of the first two points in the next year’s primary elections.
Parite expressed similar views on liberal policies, such as stopping the state’s high -speed railway project and reducing environmental restrictions such as climate change efforts, which the state claims to have increased because it has no significant impact on the consumption of fossil fuels.
An important question is whether Trump, which both Bianco and Hilton completely supported, will end one of the Republican candidates at the end.
Some of them have focused on gathering donations to a great extent since they entered the race. However, the replacement competition of Newsoma is more public and heated as seen in the California Democratic Party Congress last weekend. Many of the candidates of the party ran around the Keyeim Congress Center and attracted contradictions with their rivals while trying to do good with the most liberal activists of the state.
However, the democratic area is partially frozen, because former Vice President Kamala Harris is a decision that is expected to give to the end of summer when entering the race. Harris’s name did not appear during the forum.
There was a handful of light moment.
Porter expressed a common concern when they talked about the cost of living in the state among the state inhabitants.
“Why do I really run me at night, why I run for the governor, whether my children can afford to live here, they can get off my sofa and have their own homes,” he said.
