'The behind-the-scenes work starts today': The 2028 shadow primary is underway

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

62% : "The public 2028 campaign starts the first day Trump is in office, when he signs his first executive order," said Dan Sena, a consultant who led the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee.
47% : Instead, he is working to emphasize the policy implications of Trump returning to office with the understanding that liberal California -- more than any other state -- is destined to be in the president-elect's crosshairs.
40% : With his party suddenly on the outs, he's leapt in to fill the void, calling his Democratic-dominated Legislature back to Sacramento for a special session to help safeguard the state from Trump on climate, immigration and reproductive rights -- everything from abortion bans and slashing electric vehicles to deportation raids and withholding federal disaster aid.
40% : Newsom held a zoom call late Friday for his network where he promised to defend the state from Trump, but not to fight him just for the sake of partisan combat.

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