With the L.A. City Council controversy and upcoming midterms, the political stakes are high for Biden’s Southern California swing.
Timing isn’t always everything in politics, but it’s a pretty big deal this week as President Joe Biden visits Southern California.arrival at Los Angeles International Airport late Wednesday afternoon
Dan Schnur, a former campaign consultant who teaches about political messaging at USC and UC Berkeley, put it succinctly:Biden is scheduled to give two public speeches over the next two days. One, at a Metro station in Brentwood on Thursday, is supposed to be about infrastructure spending. The other, at Irvine Valley College on Friday, will touch on inflation.
But locals note that Biden recently has stepped up his criticism of voters and politicians who still support former President Donald Trump’s promotion of false claims about the 2020 election, and those who back the people who stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. In at least two of the locally close House races, the Republican incumbents, Reps. Mike Garcia and Ken Calvert , voted to overturn election results after the Jan.
Briceno, nodding to several speeches Biden has given about abortion in the wake of the Supreme Court’s June 22 decision to overturn Roe and make abortion a state-by-state question, suggested Biden’s time will be better spent on other issues. But political experts suggest that, if the trip was just about politics, Biden might want to steer clear of Southern California right now.
“I’m proud that Biden, along with our Democratic community, called for the resignations of the people who used horrific language and insulted all of us,” she said.
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