Trump's LA visit

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

56% : On Thursday Newsom promised to be at the airport today to greet Trump -- even if a spokesperson said his office didn't yet know which airport.
54% : He promised to be at the airport today to greet Trump -- even if a spokesperson said his office didn't yet know which airport.
47% : The governor evoked the "great relationship" he had with Trump during the COVID pandemic, when they spoke nearly every week, and said he did not expect the special session to affect that because it was "nothing personal," but rather based on "fundamental policy disagreements.
34% : I haven't even thought about it," Trump said.
34% : While he initially positioned California at the forefront of a renewed resistance after Trump won a second term in November, even calling a special session to fund litigation against the incoming administration, Newsom now finds himself dependent on the goodwill of a federal government almost fully under the sway of Trump.
32% : "Trump chose not to snub the state's two Democratic U.S. senators, Alex Padilla and Adam Schiff, whom he dubbed "Shifty Schiff" for investigating him during his first term.
27% : Newsom has substantially, though not entirely, pulled his punches against Trump in recent weeks.
25% : "I don't think we should give California anything until they let water flow down," Trump told Hannity, a reference to inaccurate claims that Los Angeles lacked water to fight these fires because the state does not send enough water south from Northern California.
24% : The clash has appeared to put federal support for California at risk, even as Newsom publicly offered an olive branch to Trump.
22% : Though the governor quickly extended an invitation to Trump to visit Los Angeles, an effort to lower the temperature on the unusually politicized furor surrounding a natural disaster, Newson acknowledged late Thursday afternoon that he had still not heard back from the president, less than a day before his expected touchdown in California.
21% : Allen, the senator from Santa Monica, said he understood that Trump is fulfilling his campaign promises to the Americans who supported him, but that California politicians would be derelict if they didn't push back, because voters had elected them with a different vision for how to run the country.
20% : "Newsom told reporters Thursday that it was important for the state to prepare to fight Trump at the same time that he is courting the president's help, noting that Trump "already assaulted the Fourteenth Amendment" with his day one executive order challenging birthright citizenship, which California immediately sued to stop.
19% : Furious over the early response to the disaster, Trump has repeatedly railed against the governor he dubbed "Newscum," spread misinformation about the causes of the fire and suggested that California will not receive the typical federal aid for disaster recovery unless it changes its water policy.
13% : Excluding Newsom would be a stinging rebuke of the governor, who met with Trump when he traveled to California fire zones in 2018 and 2020.
5% : Since the outbreak of the Los Angeles fires more than two weeks ago, Trump has depicted them as Newsom's fault and even demanded that he resign.

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