Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco launched his California governor campaign Monday to portray himself as a conservative in law and order that after decades of management by democratic leaders, Correct the declining states.
Bianco, 58, said the California dream “turned into a nightmare” before hundreds of supporters gathered by the river as people struggling for food, groceries, electricity and housing. And struggle.
“What did they give us?” Bianco said of the Democrats. “Crime rampant, higher taxes, the highest cost of living in our country, tent camps in every major city, more fentanyl deaths, catastrophic fires, damaged homeowners insurance markets. …Californians It deserves better.”
As some of his supporters waved the sign written: “California is at home. You don’t have to move,” Bianco said, “tired of my friends leaving the state. I’m tired of watching friends’ children leave the state.”
Bianco The crowded field of Democrats. Newsom is in his second term and cannot run again.
Bianco was elected as Riverside County Sheriff in 2018 and re-elected in 2022. He has established a statewide democracies of vocal critics and democratic supernumbers of the state legislature.
Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco took a selfie with supporters after announcing his campaign for governor Monday.
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His headlines Refusing to enforce potential vaccine requirements For sheriff’s department employees, during the Covid-19-19 pandemic; Civil Rights Investigation Bianco said it was included in his department by the state prosecutor. and his support for Proposition 36, Voting Measures Last fall, voters were criminally punished for theft and fentanyl treatment.
“We won this battle, we won a big victory, to prevent everyone from forcing them to do the right thing,” Bianco said of Proposition 36.
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Bianco told the crowd that his campaign would not be about party politics, but about “the common goal of all of us being better for California.” He later told reporters: “I have to be a Republican because They register us as something.”
Pam Nusser of Riverside said Bianco won her support during the pandemic when he refused to enforce health department orders to close barbecue restaurants enterprise.
“I love him,” Nussel said. “He can’t be scared, nor can he be bought.”
Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco spoke with the media after announcing a bid for the governor on Monday.
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Last year Bianco joined the sheriff’s coalition from all over the United States, which recognized Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ strong stance on immigration, which included transporting immigrants across the country. The so-called sanctuary city.
This month, he put aside rumors and said Riverside County sheriff’s deputies were assisting with immigration attacks at schools and churches, saying his deputies would not assist “Any type of immigration enforcement. ”
He said he will work with immigration and customs law enforcement “to do everything he can within the scope of California law” to “evacuate criminals from our prisons.”
Bianco faces scrutiny in 2014 after data leaks show He was a member of the oath-taking swearera far-right group whose members participated in a pro-Trump uprising at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021. Bianco later said he did not renew his membership because the organization “had not offered anything.”
Nearly a year and a half before the general election in June 2026, the governor’s campaign is still open.
The biggest question mark is whether former Vice President Kamala Harris, a Bay Area native who lives in Los Angeles, will jump into the competition. Bianco said he hoped so.
“I welcome that, contrary to her and her history in California,” Bianco said.
Harris’s entry may be Democrats’ current fieldincluding Governor Eleni Kounalakis, State School Principal Tony Thurmond, former state Senate President Pro Tem Toni Atkins, former Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaragosa (Antonio Villaraigosa), businessman and philanthropist Stephen Cloobeck.
Other notable Democrats who are said to be considering a gubernatorial campaign include former U.S. Rep. Katie Porter of Irving and former Secretary of Health and Human Services Xavier Becerra.
Other potential Republican candidates include conservative commentator Steve Hilton and former state Senator Brian Dahle, who played against Newsom in 2022.
