A former top California Democrat said she is switching to the Republican Party and voting for former President Donald Trump.
Gloria Romero, who led the Democratic majority in California&#8217;s state Senate for three years until 2008, announced her decision Wednesday during a press conference at the California State Capitol.
&#8220;Today, I am leaving the Democratic Party,&#8221; Romero said. &#8220;I stayed for as long as I could. I tried reforms, I spoke out, I voted.&#8221;
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&#8220;Today, I say goodbye, adios, I’ve had enough,&#8221; she said. &#8220;I am now another near lifelong Democrat who is joining the growing number of people — including key groups, Latinos — who are leaving the Democratic Party.&#8221;
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Romero said she has changed her voter registration from Democrat to Republican, saying the Republican Party has become the &#8220;champion of working people&#8221; under Trump.
&#8220;I will vote for Donald Trump this fall,&#8221; she said.
Romero cited several issues that drove her to abandon the Democratic Party, including what she called &#8220;rigged&#8221; primaries.
Democrats &#8220;eradicated&#8221; 14 million votes to install their &#8220;preferred candidate,&#8221; Vice President Kamala Harris as presidential nominee, Romero said, comparing the party&#8217;s tactics to Latin American dictatorships.
She also cited gender ideology, saying it is &#8220;terrifying&#8221; that she, as a feminist, &#8220;would be condemned for saying that I can define a woman.&#8221;
&#8220;This is the so-called party of women which has eradicated Title IX protections for sports equity for women,&#8221; Romero said, adding that, &#8220;while I am pro-choice, I will not support a party that advocates for abortion to full term.  I am a mother and refuse to call myself a &#8216;birthing person.'&#8221;
Romero, who is Mexican American, also criticized Democrats on immigration, saying that while she has long embraced pathways to citizenship, she rejects the &#8220;mockery of citizenship and the throwing open of our southern border by the ineffective Border Czar and the inept Biden.&#8221;
She also cited &#8220;rampant inflation&#8221; and censorship, saying Democrats have become the party of &#8220;locking people up for free speech.&#8221;
Romero also criticized Democrats&#8217; lackluster response to the terror group Hamas&#8217; attack on Israel on October 7, as well as the Biden administration&#8217;s botched withdrawal from Afghanistan.
&#8220;The Republican Party has become the party of peace while the Democrats have marched towards endless war,&#8221; she said.
&#8220;Perhaps my biggest disconnect with my old Democratic Party has been over school choice, education freedom and the right to have quality schools for all — especially for poor and minority children trapped in chronically failing schools,&#8221; she said.
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As chairwoman of the education committee, Romero <a href="https://stateimpact.npr.org/florida/2012/02/02/q-a-gloria-romero-author-of-californias-parent-trigger-law/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">helped</a> pass a controversial &#8220;parent trigger&#8221; bill that allowed a majority of parents of a &#8220;failing school&#8221; to restructure it.
&#8220;This is not the Democratic Party that I once championed, I don’t recognize it anymore and I cannot continue,&#8221; she said.
Romero was also the California co-chair for the re-election of former President Barack Obama. She was the first woman to serve as state Senate majority leader in California.
She was <a href="https://www.kcra.com/article/gloria-romero-registering-republican-voting-trump/62060558" target="_blank" rel="noopener">joined</a> at the Capitol on Wednesday by Republican Congressman Kevin Kiley, Assembly Minority Leader James Gallagher, California Republican Party Chairwoman Jessica Millan Patterson, and Fox News contributor Steve Hilton, who is weighing a run for governor.

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