Gavin Newsom: “Population went up last year.”

“And you control the fifth largest economy on the planet. We don't control the people. Control the fifth largest economy. And by the way, proud that, you. Know, it's a 3.9 trillion declining population. But. Population went up last year. Yeah. Because of the illegal border. We'll talk about that later. That's just factually and true. And that's 290,000 net, by the way. 395 National Guard that I put down at the border six years ago.” (46:15–46:17)

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