A tough republican sheriff who was in favor of a supporter of President Donald Trump In last year’s elections, a campaign launched on Monday for the Governor of California.
Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco announced his candidacy during an event Monday in Riverside, California, about 50 miles southeast of the center of Los Angeles, in the 2026 race to follow the term limited democratic Gavin Newsom government.
“As Californians, we want leadership that actually gives the costs of living … and leaders who will do something about it,” Bianco said in his speech, according to prepared fragments.
He emphasized that “we want houses that we can afford. We want air conditioning if it’s hot, not rolling blackouts. We want water for the crops and animals that feed us. We want the chance to reach California’s dream , not to be prevented because of the government’s bureaucracy and we want honesty and transparency of our chosen officials.
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Sheriff Chad Bianco from Riverside County speaks during a press conference at the US Capitol on May 15, 2024 in Washington, DC. (Kent Nishimura/Getty images)
Bianco, a vocal critic of Newsom and other Democratic Leaders of the State when it comes to the issues of crime and punishment, was one of the leaders who helped push California’s Proposition 36 mood measures to a earth shift victory in the elections of last November . The measure, which came into force in December, is required Stiff fines and longer sentences In California for certain crimes of drugs and theft.
“I run for Governor because our beautiful state – which I am absolutely fond of – is the wrong track and has been on for years. Everyone knows, apart from those who are in the Sacramento Echo room. State government tried the same failed ideas and failed the same failed Policy implemented, “Bianco argued, focusing on Newsom and the democratic majorities in the state legislator.
Bianco, who has worked for more than three decades in law enforcement, was chosen Sheriff for the first time in 2018. He flirts openly with a gubernatorial run from 2026 since at least last spring.
Chairman of the house Mike Johnson, R-Louisiana., Center, listens to Sheriff Chad Bianco from Riverside County, California, speaks during a press conference in Capitool, USA and recognize law enforcement as part of the police week on Wednesday 15 May, 2024. Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)
It has been almost two decades since a Republican won in the entire state Heavy Blue California. You have to go all the way back to the former Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s 2006 re -election victory.
Since then there has been a lot of speculation Former Vice President Kamala Harris’ In November elections last November against Trump on her next political step, in which the two potential options will probably launch a Gubernatorial Run from 2026 in her home state of California or searched again in 2028.
Harris served as San Francisco District Attorney, California Attorney General and US Senator before he became vice -president.
Sources in the political job of the former vice -president say that no decisions have been made about the following steps.
Democratic presidential nominated vice -president Kamala Harris speaks during a campagnerally, Saturday 2 November 2024, in the PNC Music Pavilion in Charlotte, NC (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
The field of the Democrats for Governor in the heavy blue state is already busy.
Among the more than half dozen candidates run for governor His Lt. Gov. Eleni Kounalakis, a Harris union, and former mayor of Los Angeles Antonio Villarigosa.
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Former Rep. Katie Porter, who ran for the democratic senate appointment without success last year, has shown interest in launching a campaign.
In addition, the former secretary of the Health and Human Services Xavier Becerra, who served in the congress and as an attorney general in California before he joined the Biden administration, is also seen as a potential competition.
Former Fox News Channel -Gastheer and conservative commentator Steve Hilton is considering a Republican Run for the Governor of California.
And one of the best assistants from Trump drives a potential bid for the Governor of California when Harris also runs.
Ric Grenell, American envoy for special missions in President Trump’s second administration, speaks on stage on the third day of the Republican National Convention on the Fiserv Forum on July 17, 2024 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty images)
Richard Grenell, an old Trump -Lionalist who serves as an American envoy for special missions in the second administration of the president, told reporters last week: “If Kamala Rent Rent for Governor, I believe she has such luggage and hundreds of millions of dollars in the Training voters about how terrible she is, that it is a new day in California and that the Republican actually has a chance. “
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Grenell, who served as an ambassador in Germany and as acting director of National Intelligence during Trump’s first term, considered a run for the Governor of California during the Recall elections of 2021 that Newsom eventually won easily, but he finally decided to have a Campaign to launch.
In California, unlike most other states, the top two finishers in a primary, regardless of party relationships, continue to the general elections.
