Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) walks around with unearned arrogance when comparing California to red states such as Texas, despite the fact that leaders from those states continue to eat his lunch on every single issue.
California’s unemployment rate continues to grow worse, sitting at 5.6%, far above the national average of 4.4%. California has the highest unemployment rate of any state in the country, and the gap between it and the rest of the country is widening. The state has lost 5,500 jobs in the last two months, primarily in entertainment and the technology industry, the two areas on which the state hangs its hat.
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It is yet another area where California is being destroyed by Texas, one of the two major conservative foils for the Democrat-run Golden State (the other being Florida). Texas has its largest labor force in state history, leading the nation in job creation. Texas gained 4,600 jobs in September, not counting farm jobs. The biggest gains have come in the construction industry, likely because Texas, unlike California, is actually capable of building homes and, in fact, needs to build more homes, as its population continues to grow.
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What does California actually do better than Texas? You would be hard-pressed to find anything notable. California has a higher poverty rate than Texas. Texas spends far less money on homelessness and yet has far better results, while California blows through billions and still has the worst homelessness crisis in the country. The two states have similar fourth and eighth-grade reading and math scores, despite California spending far more on education per student than Texas. California’s average electricity cost is nearly double that of Texas’s, despite Texans relying on that electricity far more in a less forgiving climate. California, of course, has the second-highest gas prices of any state, behind Hawaii.
Bring up all these facts, and Newsom resorts to either pretending Texas’s tax burden is just as bad as California’s or that California having a higher gross domestic product somehow helps people who simply want to buy a house and afford gas and groceries. The juxtaposition between Republican-run Texas and Democrat-dominated California shows how destructive the Democratic Party’s ideology truly is. With Newsom poised to be the 2028 Democratic presidential nominee, he must be made by Republicans to answer at every turn why Texas destroys his state in nearly every single quality of life metric.
