An illegal immigrant released into the country under the Biden administration and issued a California commercial driver&#8217;s license (CDL) is accused of killing an Ohio mother in a devastating crash.
Manjit Singh crashed head-on with another vehicle, killing 50-year-old Brenda Watson on U.S. 68 and Hamer Road in Pleasant Township around 9 p.m. on September 2, <a href="https://www.fox19.com/2026/09/03/50-year-old-woman-killed-when-semi-passing-vehicle-crashes-head-on-into-her-troopers/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to Fox 19. The crash occurred as Singh, who was behind the wheel of a tractor-trailer, allegedly tried to pass another vehicle, hitting Watson&#8217;s Chevy Cruze head-on.
A witness to the collision said Singh &#8220;had ample time and space to merge back into the northbound lane,&#8221; the local news outlet reported. The mother of two died at the scene.
Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin released a statement Wednesday, slamming the Biden administration and California Democratic Governor Gavin Newsom for the fatal crash.
&#8220;This illegal alien from India has been charged with aggravated vehicular homicide after allegedly causing a semi-truck crash that killed 50-year-old Brenda Watson in Ohio,&#8221; Mullin said.
&#8220;He has no business being in our country or on our roads, but because of the reckless open borders of the Biden Administration and the sanctuary policies of Gavin Newsom’s California, he was able to obtain a CDL that allowed him behind the wheel of a semi-truck,&#8221; he added.
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In her <a href="https://www.meekerfuneralhome.com/obituary/Brenda-Watson" target="_blank" rel="noopener">obituary</a>, Watson was described as a faithful woman who adored her family.
&#8220;Brenda’s greatest joy in life was her family,&#8221; the obituary said. &#8220;Her children and loved ones meant everything to her, and she cherished the time she was able to spend with them. She was a faithful member of Brier Ridge Church, where she attended every Sunday and found comfort and fellowship among her church family.&#8221;
&#8220;Brenda also enjoyed going to concerts and making memories through the music and experiences she shared with those she loved. Above all, she will be remembered for the love she had for her family and the special place they held in her heart,&#8221; it added.
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Following the crash, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) lodged a detainer with authorities in Ohio, asking them to transfer Singh to federal custody if he is released.
&#8220;ICE has lodged a detainer asking officials in Ohio to commit to not releasing this killer back onto our streets, so that ICE can remove him from our country. My thoughts and prayers are with Brenda Watson’s family,&#8221; Mullin said.
Singh crossed the southern border illegally into Arizona in October 2023 and was released by federal agents, according to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). In August 2024, the Biden administration granted his application for a work permit, opening the door for California to hand him a CDL.
The Trump administration has launched a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-admins-war-on-illegal-immigrant-truckers-intensifies">crackdown</a> on the trucking industry in response to a string of recent fatal crashes involving illegal immigrant truck drivers.
As part of the ongoing effort, the Department of Transportation recently announced the closure of 110 commercial trucking schools associated with more than 5,000 drivers who failed English-language proficiency tests.
“A number of American families whose lives have been ruined, they’ve lost a loved one or a loved one has been injured by a commercial driver who should’ve never had a commercial driver’s license who didn’t protect safety on American roadways, but they actually harmed American citizens,” Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said during the announcement last month.

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Biden-Released Illegal Immigrant Trucker With California License Kills Mother

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Republicans and Democrats don’t agree on much these days. But they do agree that “affordability”  is the biggest issue in the electorate, and solving it may determine the winners and losers of the upcoming election.
That is where the agreement ends.
The solutions for dealing with affordability could not be any different.
For proof, look at the proposals coming from deep-blue California and Texas, which is still a red state despite the wishes of the New York Times.
Texas Governor Greg Abbott recently unveiled his six-point plan to increase affordability in Texas. According to the most cited affordability index of the 50 states (C2ER COL Index), Texas is already the 15th most affordable state. Still, the governor, up for reelection this year to a 4th term, recognizes the issue&#8217;s importance and wants to move Texas higher in the rankings.
His proposal includes:
<ul class="ul1">
<li class="li1">Reducing property taxes by capping annual appraisal growth and making it harder for governments to increase spending.</li>
<li class="li1">Rather than rely on government bureaucrats to give building permits, allow third-party permitting and create pre-approved home designs that would automatically be permitted.</li>
<li class="li1">Allow a new “essential benefits” health insurance plan to reduce those costs.</li>
<li class="li1">Create competition for municipally owned monopoly electric utilities and forbid governments from diverting utility revenue to pay for unrelated spending.</li>
<li class="li1">Continue the freeze on state college tuition.</li>
<li class="li1">Expand safe driving discounts to lower auto insurance costs.</li>
</ul>
It’s a brilliant plan. Much of the increase in costs for the average person has been caused by increased government spending, taxes, and regulation. Or, in some cases, regulation that prevents the private sector from offering a more cost-effective product. This plan is aimed directly at improving those conditions.
And it makes changes that should affect housing and energy costs, insurance, and tuition – things that will impact virtually every Texan.
How is California dealing with affordability?
Apparently, not well. According to the same C2ER COL affordability index, California is the 3rd least affordable state. Only Hawaii and Massachusetts have a higher cost of living than California. Without question, the affordability problem is much, much greater in California than in Texas.
Therefore, California must have a much bigger and more aggressive plan to deal with the problem than Texas, right?
Oh, ye of little blue state understanding.
Accepting the gravity of the issue, California Assembly Speaker Robert Rivas (D-San Benito) gave an address at the start of the current legislative session, vowing to tackle the problem. In April 2025, he created three select committees to recommend ways to lower costs. The titles of these committees are instructive and vary quite significantly in what Texas is focused on. Those titles are: CalFresh Enrollment and Nutrition; Child Care Costs; and Housing Finance and Affordability.
Sixteen months later, those select committees have produced…nothing.
Governor Gavin Newsom, distracted while trying to become your president by moving to the Left of AOC, has touted some bond issues on the November ballot that will give handouts to certain Democrat constituencies and will no doubt be loaded with fraud like every other California program, and a housing bill that slows down the next set of expensive housing regulations but removes few of the existing ones.
The problem for Democrats is simple. Their policies on climate, unions, government spending, taxes, and regulation are the very things that drive up the cost of everything. Only two of the 20 most affordable states are blue states (New Mexico and Minnesota). For California to truly address the problem, it needs to undo much of what the legislature and governor have done in the last 20 years. But that would be an admission of failure. One trait of Democrats is that they never admit that a policy has failed. If it isn’t working, it is only because they didn’t do enough of it.
So, California Democrats will continue to talk about affordability and blame high costs on Trump, while doing nothing except make the situation worse. Maybe they’ll look to New York for additional ideas on how to implement bad policies, perhaps government-run grocery stores?
In Scottsdale, Arizona, a few years ago, I bought my go-to McDonald’s meal I have been buying for decades: a quarter-pounder with cheese, medium fries, and a milk. Then I got on a plane and bought the exact same meal in Costa Mesa, California, the next day. It cost 70% more in California. The ingredients are the same. The difference, though, is the additional insurance, regulatory, legal, tax, and other costs the California franchisee has to build into the price of that burger, which will probably get even cheaper in the Lone Star State.
God bless Texas.
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John Campbell was born and raised in Los Angeles, California. He is a Certified Public Accountant, businessman, and former member of Congress who served from 2005 to 2015. He also has a 25-year career in the retail automotive industry, progressing from Corporate Controller to owner/operator and dealer principal, and represented 15 franchises during his career.

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Hunter Biden said &#8220;may have to&#8221; enter the 2028 presidential race in an <a href="https://wabcradio.com/show/the-cats-roundtable/">interview</a> Sunday, a notable shift from his previous dismissals of the idea.
Speaking with radio host John Catsimatidis on WABC&#8217;s &#8220;Cats Roundtable,&#8221; Biden was asked whether he had considered a White House bid. &#8220;If I get your endorsement, I may have to,&#8221; he told Catsimatidis, a billionaire grocery chain owner and ally of President Donald Trump. Biden added that his central concern would be the roughly 50 million Americans he said are still struggling with addiction.
Asked what would qualify him for office, Biden pointed to the Constitution rather than his own resume. &#8220;He is my qualification for becoming president, if you believe in the Constitution of the United States of America that you swear to uphold and protect,&#8221; he said, adding that he wants the next president &#8220;to commit to one thing: adhering to the rule of law.&#8221;
The comment sits awkwardly alongside Biden&#8217;s own legal history; his father granted him a full and unconditional pardon in December 2024, wiping away federal convictions on gun and tax charges before he could be sentenced.
The remark also stands in contrast to comments Biden made in August during an <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEGP_dd2zig">appearance</a> on HBO&#8217;s &#8220;Real Time with Bill Maher,&#8221; where he waved off the idea of running and joked that anyone hearing he&#8217;d announced a campaign should &#8220;check and see if I relapsed.&#8221;
In the Catsimatidis interview, Biden stopped short of declaring a campaign and instead praised the depth of the Democratic field, name-dropping Gov. Andy Beshear (D-KY) and Gov. JB Pritzker (D-IL) before saying, &#8220;I love Gavin Newsom, personally.&#8221; Newsom, who <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/26/us/politics/gavin-newsom-2028-race.html">has acknowledged</a> eying a run after this year&#8217;s midterms, has separately polled ahead of both Vice President JD Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio in hypothetical general election matchups, <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/6039336-rubio-outperforms-vance-poll/">according</a> to an August Emerson College/The Hill survey. Other Democrats frequently mentioned as potential 2028 contenders include Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-GA), former Vice President Kamala Harris, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) and former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg.
Any Biden candidacy would almost assuredly draw renewed scrutiny of his colorful personal and legal history. He was convicted in 2024 on federal gun charges tied to a 2018 firearm purchase, during which he falsely denied drug use, and separately pleaded guilty to federal tax charges. His father&#8217;s sweeping, unconditional pardon in 2024 covered any such conduct dating back a decade.
Biden has spoken candidly about his addiction struggles, including in his 2021 memoir, and said in the interview that he recently marked seven and a half years of sobriety.

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Hunter Biden Says He ‘May Have To’ Run For President In 2028

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A bill designating Eid al-Fitr and Eid al-Adha as official California state holidays is nearing final passage, with the state Senate expected to vote before the legislative session ends this week.
<a href="https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB2017">Assembly Bill 2017,</a> authored by Assemblymember Matt Haney (D-San Francisco) and co-authored by Sen. Aisha Wahab, would add the two Islamic holy days to California&#8217;s list of state holidays, allowing workers to use existing paid leave to take the days off. Public schools and community colleges could also choose to close for the observances under agreements with employee unions, and the measure creates a mandatory excused-absence category for students who miss school to observe Eid.
Eid al-Adha, translated as the &#8220;Festival of the Sacrifice,&#8221; traditionally involves the ritual slaughter of livestock — typically a sheep, goat, cow or camel — in commemoration of Ibrahim&#8217;s willingness to sacrifice his son. The meat is customarily divided among family and the needy, a practice known as &#8220;qurbani.&#8221; Eid al-Fitr, or the &#8220;Festival of Breaking the Fast,&#8221; falls at the end of Ramadan, the month in which observant Muslims abstain from food and drink between dawn and sunset.
The bill <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/california-lawmakers-push-make-muslim-holy-days-state-holidays-sparks-debate-school-neutrality">cleared</a> the Assembly by a 64-1 vote late in May and has since moved through Senate committee review. Haney, who introduced the legislation in March during Ramadan, has said the measure addresses a gap in state law affecting California&#8217;s roughly 500,000 Muslim residents.
&#8220;California is home to one of the largest and most vibrant Muslim communities in the country,&#8221; Haney said in a <a href="https://haney.asmdc.org/press-releases/20260312-new-california-bill-will-recognize-eid-official-state-holiday">press release</a> announcing the bill. &#8220;AB 2017 is about making sure Muslim Californians are seen, valued, and treated with the same dignity as every other community in our state.&#8221;
The legislation has drawn opposition over a provision authorizing the State Board of Education to develop optional curriculum for classroom activities marking the holidays. Greg Burt, vice president of the California Family Council, has argued the provision crosses a line from teaching about religion into promoting it, <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/california-lawmakers-push-make-muslim-holy-days-state-holidays-sparks-debate-school-neutrality">telling</a> Fox News Digital the bill amounts to schools &#8220;encouraging the celebration of a religious holiday.&#8221; The council, which says it represents thousands of constituents and more than 2,000 churches statewide, has also questioned where te state would draw the line on recognizing additional religious holidays.
If signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom, Eid al-Fitr and Eid al-Adha would join Diwali and Lunar New Year among community-specific holidays California has formally recognized in recent years. Because both holidays follow the Islamic lunar calendar, their dates shift each year on the Western calendar.

Eid al-Fitr Prayer in Silicon Valley of California

Blue State Moves To Recognize Islamic Holiday Celebrating Ritual Slaughter

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There have always been rich politicians: the Roosevelts, the Kennedys, President Trump. But there is an increasingly common breed of liberal politician and leftist loudmouth. One who is also rich, spoiled, supercilious. One who whines and complains about problems they have no intention of solving. One who hasn&#8217;t built, created, or provided for others, only leeched off society&#8217;s backside. One who, seemingly, has never grown up.
Call them the Peter Pan politicians. They&#8217;re plaguing the Left.
Gavin Newscum is an obvious example. The California governor can afford a $9.2 million home in Marin County, financed by a wine-and-hospitality empire that took off on Getty fairy dust — the oil dynasty that treated his father&#8217;s boy like one of their own.
He didn’t build Neverland. He was flown there.
This is a man so lost he &#8220;literally didn&#8217;t even know&#8221; his own $7.5 million former home had a 5,000-bottle wine cellar. Except he did keep his books down there, like any pretentious goon would, with spines out along the oak shelves. For show, of course, because he doesn&#8217;t actually read, thanks to his dyslexia. Which, as he once explained, makes him just like black people.
The 58-year-old millionaire was raised in the uppity Getty orbit in Pacific Heights, posed for Harper&#8217;s Bazaar as one of &#8220;The New Kennedys,&#8221; needed a waiver to graduate Santa Clara after failing statistics three times, was handed a business by his oil-heir family friend, walked straight from that business into public office, torched his first marriage by sleeping with his best friend&#8217;s wife, and kept climbing the ladder anyway. Today he presides over a state with roughly 182,000 homeless residents, a median home price near $900,000, and the nation&#8217;s highest cost-of-living-adjusted poverty rate, and spends his afternoons trying to dunk on the president so the Lost Boys still think he’s cool.
“I don’t want ever to be a man,” Peter said. “I want always to be a little boy and to have fun.”
Mamdani’s worse. The mansion Marxist is kingpin of his own political playground, where everything is antifun and games, cops and robbers has become zero cops and free the robbers, and where money is make-believe and everything&#8217;s free if you just wish upon a star.
He’s the boy who didn’t grow up. 
The 34-year-old democratic socialist was born in Kampala to an Oscar-nominated filmmaker and a Columbia postcolonial terror-sympathizing theorist, who imported their darling to the Upper West Side bubble, enrolled him in a progressive private school where adulthood was optional, then sent him through Bronx Science and on to Bowdoin for Africana studies. The lost boy spent his twenties playing dress-up as a C-list rapper named Mr. Cardamom, lived rent-free in his parents&#8217; &#8220;plush apartment,&#8221; and decided the natural next step was running New York City.
The silly socialist smarmball later held down a rent-stabilized place in Queens while campaigning on the premise that make-believe and true are the same thing! Freeze the rent for two million people, get rid of the billionaires, make buses, groceries, and daycare free. Like magic!
In his victory speech, he quite literally said, “I am young, despite my best efforts to grow older.” We know. It shows. 
The little boy has turned the playground into a hellscape: jailed criminals running free, terror threats spiking, affordability collapsing, the means of production seized, and the Wendys of the world, the high-achieving taxpayers who keep things running, attacked for the crime of succeeding.
And when he doesn’t get his way, like when i<a href="https://x.com/AmericanDebunk/status/2092947860736114994">mmigrant business owners speak</a> out against his asinine, money-hemorrhaging city-run grocery stores, he hits the dissidents with sanction fines. Like a child throwing a tantrum, except this tantrum ends in poverty for hardworking Wendys who just wanted to run a bodega in peace.
His fellow DSA travelers are characters from the same book. City council co-chair Gustavo Gordilla boasts about seizing the means of production from New Yorkers and expresses zero remorse for the bodega owners his comrades will put out of business — all while his parents cover the mortgage on his $1.5 million townhouse.
Tracy Rosenthal, a DSA nut and advisor to the NYC marxist mayor, hasn’t paid rent on her $2,300/month apartment in nearly six years, despite being a trust-fund baby whose daddy is a four-time Grammy winner. Turns out little girls can be Peter Pans too, right Woke 1? Then there’s Cea Weaver, the DSA-loving Director of the Office to Protect Tenants, who whines that homeownership is a “weapon of white supremacy,” whilst stomping her feet and demanding bedtime stories. Meanwhile, her mother, a Vanderbilt professor, owns a roughly $1.6 million compound in Nashville, which is obviously the most racist thing anyone’s ever done.
I&#8217;d call Bernie Sanders a Peter Pan, but he looks 900 years old, so maybe he grew up physically, just not mentally. He&#8217;s the original Lost Boy who stuck around long enough for the hair to go white. Forty-plus years on the public payroll, three houses, book-deal millions, and the same speech he was giving when the Gettys were still cutting Newsom’s checks: Wendy should hand over her paycheck because only he knows how to handle your money – based on his prolific experience, and millionaires (now billionaires) are the real villains! Name one policy of his that&#8217;s made a single person&#8217;s life measurably better in that very long time span. Or are his wins imaginary too?
If this is the next cadre of leadership, commie Lost Boys who inherited the nursery and never graduated out of it, then the country is being run from the playground. 

What we actually need are adults: people who build, hire, ship, invent, and leave something for the next generation. Not another seminar about other people’s money.
It&#8217;s worth remembering how recently this country was poorer than the Peter Pans can imagine. In 1959, more than one in five Americans lived below the poverty line, and plenty of those families were white. What changed wasn&#8217;t a municipal grocery store or a lecture on white supremacy. It was free markets, wages, appliances, antibiotics, housing that actually got built, and millions of unglamorous people clocking in to work every day. Yesterday&#8217;s luxuries became today&#8217;s ordinary. That&#8217;s what growing up looks like at the scale of a nation.
It&#8217;s easy to inherit the comfort your parents and grandparents wrung out of that system, then sneer at the privilege of whoever showed up after you. It&#8217;s easy to stay in Neverland, tax the pirates, and never learn what it takes to keep a store open. It’s hard to fly, but we can do it; we just don’t all get fairy dust. We get it the old-fashioned way: work, discipline, a little capitalism, and the willingness to grow up.

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The Peter Pan Politicians Plaguing The Left

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California Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom offered unusually supportive praise for one of President Donald Trump&#8217;s signature policies, urging families to enroll their children in Trump Accounts.
“I am enthusiastic about encouraging people to get a Trump account,&#8221; Newsom said last week. &#8220;It’s one of the best things he’s done. Take advantage of this. It means something for your kid. We want to encourage everybody out there to take advantage of this program.”  
Newsom, one of Trump&#8217;s most outspoken political opponents, made the remarks in San Francisco as California celebrated one million children claiming accounts through CalKIDS, the state&#8217;s college savings program. California officials are encouraging families to combine benefits available through CalKIDS and the federal Trump accounts program.
&#8220;I&#8217;m pretty aggressive pushing back against Trump, but not on this,&#8221; Newsom <a href="https://abc7news.com/post/gov-gavin-newsom-urges-california-families-sign-trump-accounts-rare-bipartisan-moment/19715863/">told</a> ABC7. &#8220;This was one of the really outstanding things that this administration has done. And they deserve a lot of credit.&#8221;
Trump Accounts officially launched on July 4, 2026, the 250th anniversary of the United States. About 7 million children have already been <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2026/07/27/bessent-trump-account-signups-reach-7-million.html">enrolled</a>, with roughly one million additional sign-ups each month. 
Children under 18 with Social Security numbers are eligible for the tax-advantaged investment accounts. U.S. citizens born between January 1, 2025, and December 31, 2028, are also eligible for a one-time $1,000 contribution from the federal government. The program was established through Trump&#8217;s One Big Beautiful Bill Act. 
According to White House<a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Trump-Accounts-Give-the-Next-Generation-a-Jump-Start-on-Saving.pdf"> projections</a>, the $1,000 seed investment for a child born in 2026 could grow to about $5,800 by age 18 without any additional contributions. Under the administration&#8217;s maximum-contribution scenario, the account could grow to approximately $303,800 by that age.
By age 28, the account could reach about $18,100 without additional contributions or as much as $1.09 million under the maximum-contribution scenario, demonstrating the long-term power of<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/the-secret-weapon-that-will-supercharge-the-trump-accounts-for-newborns"> reinvesting earnings</a>. 
Parents, relatives, and others may contribute up to a combined $5,000 per year, with the limit indexed to inflation beginning after 2027. To encourage participation, the Trump administration also made qualifying employer contributions up to $2,500 tax-exempt. Employer contributions count toward the $5,000 annual limit.
When participants reach adulthood, the account converts to a traditional IRA, but withdrawals can be made without penalties for approved expenses, including college tuition, purchasing a home, or starting a business.
The Trump administration issued guidance in June <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/the-trump-administration-just-solved-a-problem-most-americans-never-think-about">allowing</a> state and tribal child welfare agencies to open and manage accounts on behalf of eligible children in foster care.
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent had called the program “the most important benefit for young people since the GI Bill.”

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Gavin Newsom Gives Full-Throated Praise For Recent Trump Policy

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I was born and raised in Los Angeles and spent the first 60 years of my life in California, where I served in both Houses of the State Legislature and represented the state in Congress.
Ten years ago, I fled California for Arizona.
Many believe I moved mainly to pay lower taxes, which was a factor. Others assume that California’s restrictions on activities beyond theft, abortion, and illegal alien protection pushed me away. That also played a role in my decision.
But a third overlooked factor is that the government in Sacramento creates laws and regulations every year to make the cost of just about everything in California rise well above the costs in nearly every other state. They do this either in the name of “saving the planet” or “keeping us safe.”
Take the quintessentially American and California-specific car culture. What once defined the zeitgeist of a golden era in the Golden State has become nearly prohibitively expensive. It already has the highest gasoline prices in the country and consistently ranks in the top five for the highest car insurance rates. So, in order to make driving your own car more expensive (as opposed to riding on the multibillion-dollar train to nowhere), they have decided to double down and make tires more expensive as well.
The California Energy Commission, acting under a 2003 law, just passed new regulations requiring all tires sold in California to meet certain “low rolling resistance” standards starting in 2029. The standards get tighter every year until 2033. The idea is that low rolling resistance tires will save fuel and, therefore, carbon emissions, which will of course “save the planet.” Governor (and wannabe president) Gavin Newsom says that motorists will save $1 billion a year in fuel costs because of this regulation.
Let’s first give the proponents of this regulation their due. Low rolling resistance tires do exist. They do increase fuel mileage. They can have poor grip in wet conditions, but the regulation includes standards for having adequate grip on slick pavements. The regulation also exempts certain tires, including snow and off-road tires.
Fine. But let’s dig deeper.
The regulation will make 70% of all tires currently sold in the state illegal. Seventy percent.
According to the regulation’s proponents, the most common car to get a replacement tire in California is a 2017 Honda Civic. The commission itself acknowledges that only half of the tires currently in the correct size for this car meet the 2029 standards, and none meet the 2033 standard. The average price for those currently marketed as “low rolling resistance” is $629.48 for a set of 4 tires. The average price for all of the tires in this size category is $325.20 for that same set of 4 tires. So the person getting a new set of tires on their nine-year-old car will pay over $300 more, assuming compliant tires are even available. This analysis also doesn&#8217;t include price increases when choice shrinks starting in 2029.
When people on the Left raise the cost of something, like taxes, they assume people will just gladly pay it and move on. But real people don’t do that. They look for a way to not spend an extra $300 on nothing. What will they do? They can buy used tires coming in from other states because the regulation only covers new tires. These tires will be cheaper, but they’ll have less tread, be older, and pose a safety risk. It will be illegal to buy non-compliant tires in California, but not illegal to install them. So, a gray or black market for non-compliant tires will form. Or, drive to Las Vegas for the weekend and get new tires that are $300 cheaper while you are there, costing jobs in California and causing the state to lose sales tax revenue as well. Or, just keep driving your old tires longer until they fail.
As far as the claims about fuel savings, they are about as accurate as Newsom’s estimates of the cost of the bullet train. Low rolling resistance tires only save fuel when traveling at high sustained speeds. Have you even driven in L.A. or San Francisco? In stop-and-go traffic or on surface streets with lots of signals, there is no savings. That is where most driving occurs.
Leftists are always talking about “income inequality.” What they conveniently ignore is that the income inequality in California and New York is much worse than in red states like Texas and Tennessee. Why? Because of laws like this one. The person in their nine-year-old Honda Civic is going to pay $300 more for their tires. But the Beverly Hills leftist will have no restrictions on tires for their Bentley, because low-volume cars like Bentleys are exempt from the regulation. No limousine leftist in Sacramento feels they need to live by the laws they impose on everyone else.
However, as average Californians suffer under the burdensome costs of another new regulation, there is one thing they can know. They will help offset perhaps a second or two of China’s carbon emissions each year.
So clearly, it’s all worthwhile.
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John Campbell was born and raised in Los Angeles, California. He is a Certified Public Accountant, businessman, and former member of Congress who served from 2005 to 2015. He also has a 25-year career in the retail automotive industry, progressing from Corporate Controller to owner/operator and dealer principal, and represented 15 franchises during his career.

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It’s no secret that Meghan Markle is an incorrigible social climber, but the scale of her ambition is just now coming to light. According to a new <a href="https://nypost.com/2026/08/20/us-news/true-scale-of-meghan-and-harrys-us-political-plans-revealed-from-request-for-biden-oval-office-meeting-to-eyeing-senate-seat/">report</a> from The New York Post, Markle had her sights set on the United States Senate.
This would be amusing enough if Markle were nothing but a D-list actress, which was true for years before she sank her claws into the rebellious British royal Prince Harry. Now that they’re married, her rumored political ambitions are even more ridiculous.
Markle was eyeing the U.S. Senate seat vacated by former Vice President Kamala Harris, the Post reported, citing a source. The former British working royal reportedly had a sit-down with California Democratic Governor Gavin Newsom just weeks before the 2020 presidential election because she “wanted to be considered to be appointed,” a source told the outlet.
Newsom’s office has a record of the meeting, which at the time was pitched as a “welcome to California” chat. It remains unclear whether Markle was ever seriously considered.
A Sussex source denied the allegation that Markle was gunning for Harris’ vacant seat. Reps for The Duchess of Sussex did not immediately respond to The Daily Wire’s request for comment.
The royal couple has been associated with politicians before. In 2021, they allegedly requested a meeting with then-President Joe Biden and wanted to stay at Blair House, which is usually reserved for diplomatic leaders, the Post reported. That request was denied. 
In 2025, Markle <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hSWpaFRvX6k&amp;t=10s">responded</a> to a question on her political ambitions, denying that she was interested in running for office. When pressed if she would really “never” run, the Duchess of Sussex replied, “I mean you could say, never say never &#8230;” then quickly repeated, “No. Never.” 
British royals traditionally don’t comment on American politics or endorse candidates, which is why so many followers were surprised when Prince Harry and Markle made statements that sounded like support for the Biden-Harris ticket in September 2020. 
“Every four years we are told the same thing, that this is the most important election of our lifetime,” Markle <a href="https://www.hola.com/us/royals/20200923frgleedf17/meghan-markle-prince-harry-voting-election-tv-appearance/">said</a> in their video message at the time. “But this one is. When we vote, our values are put into action and our voices are heard. Your voice is a reminder that you matter, because you do and you deserve to be heard.”
Prince Harry chimed in, saying, “This election, I’m not going to be able to vote here in the U.S. But many of you may not know that I haven’t been able to vote in the U.K. my entire life. As we approach this November, it’s vital that we reject hate speech, misinformation, and online negativity.”
It was just announced that the royal couple is moving back to the United Kingdom after living stateside for the past six years. This comes after several failed lifestyle and entertainment ventures, including an abandoned podcast and a nine-figure Netflix deal that was later downgraded to a less lucrative arrangement due to an extreme lack of interest.

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A visit to Michigan from potential 2028 presidential candidate Governor Gavin Newsom (D-CA) was characterized by botched meetings and fundraisers, according to a new report. 
Newsom spent the first half of this week campaigning and fundraising for Democrats in Michigan while stopping for a photo op at the University of Michigan&#8217;s famed “Big House” football stadium. The visit to the critical swing state didn’t exactly go as planned, according to a <a href="https://www.politico.com/newsletters/playbook/2026/08/12/newsoms-swing-and-miss-state-tour-01035105">report</a> from Politico’s Playbook. 
Politico reported on Wednesday that interviews with multiple Michigan Democrats raised &#8220;questions about the coastal leader’s resonance in the middle of the country and political operation following one of his most in-depth, high-touch early state trips this year.”
Newsom has long been considered one of the top contenders for the Democratic nomination, but some recent polls show his chances falling. One <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/a-new-2028-poll-just-shook-up-both-parties">survey</a> out of New Hampshire showed Newsom trailing Rep. Alexandria-Ocasio Cortez (D-NY) by 14 points and former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg by 13 points.
An unnamed Democrat “insider” told Politico that Newsom&#8217;s Michigan trip was “rushed” while another person rated the trip as a “B-minus.&#8221;
Several top Democrats in the state also said they missed out on connecting with Newsom. Democratic National Committee Black Caucus chair Virgie Rollins complained that she didn’t get a meeting with Newsom — even though Politico reported a representative for Newsom did reach out to her on August 7. 
“Every Democratic president that has won an election has been in my house,” she said. “I did not hear from him. I did not get a call.”
Rep. Debbie Dingell (D-MI), a member of the influential Rules and Bylaws Committee for the DNC, said she did not meet with Newsom either. She referenced her support for auto manufacturing while Newsom has pushed stringent environmental standards that aim to ban the sale or production of gas vehicles by 2035. 
“I didn’t hear from the governor. I didn&#8217;t expect to: I’m a car girl,” she said. 
Additionally, a meeting between the powerful United Auto Workers President Shawn Fain did not happen despite efforts from the Newsom team. 
During the trip, two scheduled fundraiser appearances by Newsom fell through. One was for state House Democrats that ended up being called off by participants, while another for Democrat attorney general candidate Eli Savit was canceled by Newsom. That event was set to feature fundraiser Kelly Neumann, who has faced backlash for a Veterans Day post where she <a href="https://nypost.com/2026/07/21/us-news/michigans-abdul-el-sayed-to-attend-fundraiser-hosted-by-lawyer-in-nazi-flap/">revealed</a> her grandfather “was on the German side in WWI &amp; WWII.” 
Newsom did meet with Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed and Michigan Democratic Party Chair Curtis Hertel. He also met with Michigan Democratic Senator Elissa Slotkin.
“I doubt that it will be the governor’s last time here,” Hertel said. “There will be plenty of opportunities the next time he’s here, too.”

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Governor Gavin Newsom (D-CA) is scrambling to rewrite history — and reinvent himself — as his party lurches leftward and embraces candidate after candidate who&#8217;s younger and more extreme than the last.
Newsom, recognizing the appetite in his party for &#8220;insurgents&#8221; and agents of &#8220;change,&#8221; insisted that he could be all of those things while also bringing the experience that came with his more than two decades in elected office.
&#8220;I think what&#8217;s happening is there&#8217;s just a desire for change,&#8221; Newsom said. &#8220;I think this notion of insurgency over incumbency is the real message here, and people just want fighters — they want people with conviction, strength, clarity, people that get it and want to get things done. And they&#8217;re done with the status quo, and I totally respect that.&#8221;
Newsom went on to claim that despite his eight years as governor — and more than a decade in elected office prior to that — he was not an example of the &#8220;status quo&#8221; people were so desperate to leave behind. Instead, he still viewed himself as the &#8220;insurgent&#8221; rather than the &#8220;incumbent,&#8221; coining a new phrase to describe his position in the field: &#8220;established insurgent.&#8221;
&#8220;I&#8217;ve long felt like I&#8217;ve been an established insurgent,&#8221; he explained, adding, &#8220;I&#8217;ve always had that mindset. I&#8217;ve been in elected office a long time, but I&#8217;ve never been naive about people&#8217;s desire for change, including my own desire for change.&#8221;
Newsom&#8217;s comments came as he traveled to Michigan, where Democratic Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed eked out a narrow victory over the more established Democrat Rep. Haley Stevens. The likely 2028 hopeful brushed aside concerns about El-Sayed&#8217;s more extreme views and alignment with far-Left streamer <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/hasan-piker-gloats-over-socialist-election-victories">Hasan Piker</a> — who is well known for praising Islamist terrorist groups like Hamas and Hezbollah, idolizing communist dictators like Mao Zedong, and making outlandish claims like &#8220;America deserved 9/11.&#8221;
El-Sayed, despite being given multiple chances to denounce Piker, has doubled down at every opportunity — but Newsom did not appear to be bothered by that, and instead argued that El-Sayed&#8217;s success was simply a manifestation of the people&#8217;s &#8220;desire for change.&#8221;
Responding to Republicans who have argued that El-Sayed is just more proof that the Democratic Party is embracing the extremes, Newsom said that was &#8220;nonsense,&#8221; adding, &#8220;He&#8217;s not even a member of the DSA.&#8221;
The California governor, whose term ends in January, is expected to launch a presidential campaign ahead of the 2028 election cycle — and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/a-new-2028-poll-just-shook-up-both-parties">recent polls</a>, which show democratic socialist darling Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) eclipsing him, might be the inspiration behind his attempts to reinvent himself.

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California Democratic Governor Gavin Newsom is rolling out a new organizing strategy aimed at turning ordinary online spaces — including family group chats, neighborhood Facebook groups, and alumni networks — into vehicles for Democratic messaging as he continues expanding his national political operation ahead of a potential 2028 presidential campaign.
Newsom&#8217;s federal political action committee, Campaign for Democracy, emailed supporters this week inviting them to join a new digital volunteer program designed to spread Democratic messaging through personal relationships rather than traditional campaign advertisements, The <a href="https://nypost.com/2026/08/06/us-news/gavin-newsom-recruits-supporters-to-spread-campaign-messages-in-family-group-chats/">New York Post</a> reported.
The program centers on training volunteers to carry campaign-approved messaging into online communities where politics is typically not the focus. &#8220;A lot of those spaces aren&#8217;t political at all,&#8221; the email states. &#8220;That&#8217;s the point.&#8221; 
Rather than asking supporters to simply repost campaign content, the PAC says volunteers will receive weekly training and messaging that they are encouraged to rewrite in their own words before sharing with friends, relatives, classmates, and other acquaintances. &#8220;So the task isn&#8217;t forwarding talking points or propaganda,&#8221; the email explains. &#8220;It&#8217;s taking what we send you and translating it for people you understand better than we do.&#8221;
The email argues that trusted personal relationships provide an opportunity campaigns cannot replicate through conventional advertising. &#8220;The person already in that room is the only one who can get a message in, and the only one who knows how to say it so it doesn&#8217;t feel out of place,&#8221; it says.
Supporters who enroll will participate in weekly virtual training sessions over the next eight weeks and use a web application called &#8220;Echo&#8221; to distribute campaign messaging through their existing online networks.
Political consultant Matthew Klink criticized the organizing strategy, arguing it further blurs the line between everyday social interactions and partisan politics. 
&#8220;The Left has this preoccupation of making everything political and this is carrying it to another extreme,&#8221; Klink told the Post. &#8220;We joke that families are already divided by talking politics at the dinner table — this is that on steroids.&#8221;
According to Newsom&#8217;s PAC, volunteers will receive messaging supporting Democratic candidates in competitive races across the country, including Nevada gubernatorial candidate Aaron Ford and New Hampshire Senate candidate Chris Pappas — two contests that could prove important to Democratic electoral prospects while also raising Newsom&#8217;s visibility in states expected to play significant roles during the next presidential nominating process.
The effort comes as Newsom continues building a national political infrastructure widely viewed as laying the groundwork for a 2028 White House bid, even as he continues to publicly decline to say whether he intends to run.
Newsom&#8217;s political team has framed the new initiative as part of a broader effort to help Democrats perform well in the 2026 midterms. 
&#8220;This is smart political organizing: empowering real people to persuade the people they know best,&#8221; Newsom spokesman Izzy Gardon told the Post.
Gardon emphasized that the effort relies on volunteers rather than paid influencers and said Newsom has used his national political organization to raise millions of dollars for Democratic candidates.
The digital organizing campaign coincides with Newsom&#8217;s increasingly aggressive national travel schedule. This weekend, Newsom will spend three days <a href="https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/gavin-newsom-michigan-democrats-22376220.php">campaigning in Michigan</a> following the Democratic primary victories of several Left-wing candidates, including Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed.
Newsom quickly endorsed El-Sayed after his primary victory and plans to campaign for Democratic candidates up and down the ballot while meeting with black community leaders, students, labor activists, and grassroots organizers.
The Michigan trip follows similar campaign appearances in other battleground states and adds to Newsom&#8217;s growing national profile as Democrats position themselves for both the 2026 midterms and the 2028 presidential cycle.

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Authorities arrested an armed man outside President Donald Trump&#8217;s Southern California golf course ahead of the president&#8217;s scheduled visit Tuesday, officials announced. 
Jeanine John Taele, 38, was arrested Sunday outside Trump National Golf Club in Rancho Palos Verdes after FBI agents allegedly <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2026/08/04/armed-man-arrested-before-trump-fundraising-dinner-california-01024955">found</a> him carrying a 16-round magazine in his pocket. 
According to the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department, Taele was also seen taking photographs and videos near the property.
After executing a search warrant at his home in Downey on Monday, investigators said they discovered a notebook containing what they described as “concerning statements,&#8221; body armor, firearms, and ammunition. In a search of his car, authorities found a loaded pistol and loaded magazine. 
The Secret Service is <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2026/08/04/us/trump-golf-course-armed-man-arrested">reportedly</a> investigating whether Taele posed a threat to the president.  
White House spokeswoman Olivia Wales said Trump traveled to California Tuesday to highlight what the administration views as the contrast between Republican and Democrat leadership. Trump is expected to attend a Republican National Committee dinner at the club Tuesday evening.
“The President will draw a sharp contrast between his commonsense agenda and the radical policies of Democrats like Gavin Newsom, who keep raising taxes, inviting rampant fraud in taxpayer-funded programs, and protecting illegal immigrant drug dealers, rapists, and murderers,” Wales said. 
The sheriff’s department emphasized that there is “no credible threat to our communities.”

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