Gavin Newsom: “His efforts to try to get and purge the voting rolls…”

“And let me highlight that the night before he federalized 4,000 National Guard, remember, that all happened in California first. So much of this is happening in California first. His efforts to try to get and purge the voting rolls happened in our state [California] first. Even before Pam Bondi demanded them as an extraction payment to get the National Guard, or rather get ice out of Minnesota, they had already demanded that of us and a number of other states many, many months ago.” (32:18)

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