California Gov. Gavin Newsom traveled to Texas this past weekend despite Texas being one of the states California has banned as a destination for official government travel.
Newsom spoke at the Texas Tribune Festival in Austin, Texas, on Saturday, calling Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis a “bully” and saying he is more worried about Fox News host Tucker Carlson than former President Donald Trump.
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The California governor also said Democratic candidates are timid and “getting crushed” by Republicans that “dominate with illusion.”
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California began banning government-funded travel to states such as Texas in 2017 due to laws in those states that allegedly discriminate against LGBT individuals. Today, 22 states are included in the travel ban.
Despite Newsom spending millions of dollars to encourage people to move from Republican states to California, the Democratic state lost nearly 370,000 net residents from June 2021 to June 2022, according to U.S. Census Bureau estimates. Texas and Florida top the list of states to which residents are moving.
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When asked at the Code 2022 conference earlier this month why so many people have moved out of California, Newsom blamed Trump’s visa policies, despite those visa policies holding little to no relevance concerning domestic migration amid President Joe Biden’s term in office.
