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Kiley Warns of a President Harris or Newsom
By Andrew Sheeler

December 21, 2023

Look out, says Rep. Kevin Kiley.

Should Vice President Kamala Harris or Gov. Gavin Newsom become president, the country’s going to have big problems.

Kiley, R-Rocklin, said he was asked to write about who would be worse to have in the White House, Harris or Newsom. “It is a very tough question,” he [2] wrote on his blog.

He didn’t really choose, but said that, “Since the thought of either occupying the Oval Office is terrifying, I used the opportunity to describe how their shared radical politics have ruined San Francisco, are ruining California, and already infecting the rest of the country.”

Kiley wrote a two-page article in the December[3] Ripon Forum, published by the center-right [4] Ripon Society, about his thoughts. He maintained that both Harris and Newsom “hold an office where it would seem there’s only one way up: The Oval Office.”

Harris made an unsuccessful run for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination. Newsom has repeatedly denied he’s interested in running for the White House in 2024, though he’s pursued national forums to offer his views recently.

Look out, said Kiley. If either or both run “American voters will soon be asked to nationalize a brand of governance that originated in a distinctive political environment.”

That environment is the city of San Francisco. Newsom was its mayor from 2004 to 2011. Harris was the city’s district attorney at the same time. In 2010, Newsom was elected lieutenant governor and Harris was elected state attorney general.

Harris won a U.S. Senate seat in 2016 and was elected vice president four years later. Newsom was elected governor in 2018 and won a second term last year.

To Kiley, “Newsom and Harris catered their platforms to a political culture far removed from the mainstream of American life.” Their stints as mayor and district attorney, he said, “pushed the outermost reaches of progressive politics.” Though neither has held local office for a dozen years, Kiley charged they “played starring roles in San Francisco’s decline.”

He argued Harris, as attorney general, “helped spread the lawlessness of her city statewide.” Harris actually billed herself as the state’s “top cop” and some of her tough-on-crime policies were criticized by activists in communities of color.

Still, Kiley argued, Harris and Newsom have already influenced national policy and helped turn it leftward.

“This is why, should Newsom or Harris become the Democratic nominee, any attempt to distance themselves from San Francisco will be disingenuous,” he said.

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The Ripon Society is a public policy organization that was founded in 1962 and takes its name from the town where the Republican Party was born in 1854 – Ripon, Wisconsin. One of the main goals of The Ripon Society is to promote the ideas and principles that have made America great and contributed to the GOP’s success. These ideas include keeping our nation secure, keeping taxes low and having a federal government that is smaller, smarter and more accountable to the people.

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