Column: Trump has big plans for California if he wins a second term. Fasten your seatbelts
9 months ago

Column: Trump has big plans for California if he wins a second term. Fasten your seatbelts

LA Times  

“The place is failing,” former President Trump said of California at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Maryland last month. We’ll give you a mansion.” Under its current policies, Trump charged, the state can “take children away from their parents and sterilize them.” “He’s destroyed California,” Trump said of the governor, whom he recently gave a new and strikingly unattractive nickname: “Gavin New-Scum.” California-bashing has become a standard feature of GOP rhetoric, of course. Some examples: He says he’ll close the U.S.-Mexico border on his first day in office — the day he has set aside to act as “a dictator” — and launch “the largest domestic deportation operation in American history.” His Santa Monica-born immigration advisor, Stephen Miller, says that if Democratic states such as California don’t cooperate, Trump could order National Guard units from red states such as Texas to cross their borders — a recipe for constitutional crisis. Those proposals suggest that a second Trump term, like the first, would produce major collisions between the White House and California’s Democratic state government. “If campaign promises have any meaning, you’re looking not just at a second term; you’re looking at Trump on steroids,” said Larry Gerston, an emeritus professor of political science at San Jose State University.

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Florida is winning the political battle with California as Trump takes office
2 days, 13 hours ago

Florida is winning the political battle with California as Trump takes office

LA Times  

President-elect Donald Trump, shown at his Mar-a-Lago estate in 2023, is stocking his Cabinet with Floridians. The nation under President-elect Donald Trump will look far more like Trump’s adopted home state of Florida, after he defeated Vice President Kamala Harris by painting her as an out-of-touch California liberal. “These are all folks born and raised in our state and are …

Trump gained support in California. What does that mean for the so-called resistance?
2 weeks, 5 days ago

Trump gained support in California. What does that mean for the so-called resistance?

LA Times  

Adam Gray, shown in 2023 at UC Merced, was elected to a House seat in the Central Valley by 187 votes. “We are thrilled to see Californians standing up against the Democrat machine and declaring, ‘enough is enough.’” A final blue-to-red flip in California Although Vice President Kamala Harris easily won the state with 58.5% of the vote, Trump, as …

California Kicks Off Effort To 'Trump-Proof' State Laws
3 weeks ago

California Kicks Off Effort To 'Trump-Proof' State Laws

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California Gov. Gavin Newsom and state lawmakers returned to the state Capitol on Monday to begin a special session to protect the state’s progressive policies ahead of another Trump presidency. State Attorney General Rob Bonta said his office will protect the state’s immigration population, while Newsom last week unveiled a proposal to revive a …

California voters shifted toward Trump. Should the governor’s race be about fighting him?
3 weeks, 6 days ago

California voters shifted toward Trump. Should the governor’s race be about fighting him?

LA Times  

Rob Bonta speaks at a news conference in front of the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco on Nov. 7. If Trump jeopardizes your safety and well-being: I’ll be there.” State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tony Thurmond, who entered the governor’s race last year, said the state would fight any efforts by the Trump administration to undo LGBTQ+ student protections …

The Trump presidency begins to take shape. Immigration is front and center
1 month, 1 week ago

The Trump presidency begins to take shape. Immigration is front and center

LA Times  

There are 69 days until President-elect Donald Trump is sworn in, and he’s starting to pick the team that will run his White House — giving insight into which campaign promises will be his priorities. Trump has made two key appointments on this issue: Stephen Miller, formerly of Santa Monica, is reportedly his pick for deputy chief of staff; and …

'Insane': Trump lashes out at California governor over plan to Trump-proof state laws
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1 month, 2 weeks ago

'Insane': Trump lashes out at California governor over plan to Trump-proof state laws

Raw Story  

Donald Trump on Friday attacked California Governor Gavin Newsom for calling a special legislative session to safeguard the state's progressive policies from the incoming Republican administration. The Democratic governor called for the session a day after the former president defeated Kamala Harris in the presidential race, and he said legislators were ready to "Trump-proof" state laws and approve more funding …

California Governor Gavin Newsom calls special session to prepare fight against Trump measures
1 month, 2 weeks ago

California Governor Gavin Newsom calls special session to prepare fight against Trump measures

The Independent  

Sign up for the daily Inside Washington email for exclusive US coverage and analysis sent to your inbox Get our free Inside Washington email Get our free Inside Washington email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy California Governor Gavin Newsom on Thursday called a special legislative …

Trump blasts Newsom’s plan to shield California from the next White House
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1 month, 2 weeks ago

Trump blasts Newsom’s plan to shield California from the next White House

LA Times  

Then-President Trump participates in a briefing on wildfires with California Gov. “Governor Gavin Newscum is trying to KILL our Nation’s beautiful California,” Trump wrote on his Truth Social account on Friday, with his oft-used nickname for the state’s Democratic governor. Trump wrote that Newsom “is using the term ‘Trump-Proof’ as a way of stopping all of the GREAT things that …

How blue states are plotting to thwart Trump
1 month, 2 weeks ago

How blue states are plotting to thwart Trump

Politico  

And attorneys general across blue states are prepared to take Trump to court — just as their predecessors did hundreds of times during his first administration. “We’ve been talking for months with attorneys general throughout the nation, preparing, planning, strategizing for the possibility of this day,” California Attorney General Rob Bonta said at a press conference in San Francisco on …

Gavin Newsom’s quest to ‘Trump-proof’ California enrages incoming president
1 month, 2 weeks ago

Gavin Newsom’s quest to ‘Trump-proof’ California enrages incoming president

Politico  

California is one of several blue states that have announced preemptive moves to defend against Trump’s policies. Kathy Hochul and Attorney General Letitia James have pledged to beef up coordination between their offices to “protect New Yorkers’ fundamental freedoms from any potential threats.” And state leaders in Illinois and Massachusetts have pledged to take action to protect undocumented immigrants, access …

'Under attack’: Gavin Newsom preps to protect California from Trump
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1 month, 2 weeks ago

'Under attack’: Gavin Newsom preps to protect California from Trump

Raw Story  

California's Democratic Governor Gavin Newsom is preparing on multiple fronts to protect his state from the impending Donald Trump presidency. "California anticipates that Trump could seek to limit access to abortion, dismantle environmental protections and withhold federal disaster response funding," The Times adds, along with repealing the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program. "The new special session provides an early …

California Governor Calls Special Session To Protect Liberal Policies From Trump Presidency
1 month, 2 weeks ago

California Governor Calls Special Session To Protect Liberal Policies From Trump Presidency

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California’s Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom, a fierce critic of former President Donald Trump, on Thursday called for lawmakers to convene a special session later this year to safeguard the state’s progressive policies on climate change, reproductive rights and immigration ahead of another Trump presidency. 🔗 https://t.co/Nl9gouYLm9 pic.twitter.com/vOc5bek55v — California Governor November 7, 2024 California’s …

California governor calls special session to protect liberal policies from Trump presidency
1 month, 2 weeks ago

California governor calls special session to protect liberal policies from Trump presidency

Associated Press  

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California’s Democratic Gov. The move — a day after the former president resoundingly defeated Vice President Kamala Harris in the presidential race — effectively reignited California’s resistance campaign against conservative policies that state Democratic leaders started during the first Trump administration. State Attorney General Rob Bonta said his office spent the past year reviewing more than 120 …

Gavin Newsom moves to block Trump’s policies from taking effect in California
1 month, 2 weeks ago

Gavin Newsom moves to block Trump’s policies from taking effect in California

The Telegraph  

Gavin Newsom has moved to block Donald Trump’s policies from taking effect in California. The California governor’s office said it was ready to “Trump-proof” state laws at a special session of the state legislature following the Republican’s election victory on Tuesday night. “The freedoms we hold dear in California are under attack – and we won’t sit idle,” Mr Newsom …

Trump’s reelection means Round 2 against California’s progressive agenda
1 month, 2 weeks ago

Trump’s reelection means Round 2 against California’s progressive agenda

LA Times  

Here’s what you need to know to start your day. “Trump in his early-Wednesday victory speech said the American people had given Republicans an ‘unprecedented and powerful mandate’ to usher in their conservative agenda,” my colleagues Kevin Rector and Angie Orellana Hernandez reported. The former and future POTUS has ratcheted up his rhetoric against Democrats this election cycle, calling name-brand …

California Playbook
1 month, 2 weeks ago

California Playbook

Politico  

California braces for war with Trump Presented by Donald Trump is headed back to the White House. Assembly Speaker Robert Rivas told our Melanie Mason that “California will do everything we can to protect America from Donald Trump.” And Attorney General Rob Bonta, like his predecessor Xavier Becerra did during Trump’s first term, pledged to turn to the courts to …

As with Trump’s last term, California will lead the liberal resistance
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1 month, 2 weeks ago

As with Trump’s last term, California will lead the liberal resistance

LA Times  

A woman reacts while waiting for results during an election watch party at Manny’s in San Francisco on Tuesday night. “We’ve been spending months, in some cases over a year,” Bonta added, “planning on potential attacks and our responses to them across all the different issues and areas — from attacking our environment to attacking reproductive freedom, our common sense …

California braces for war with Trump
Trending News
1 month, 2 weeks ago

California braces for war with Trump

Politico  

California braces for war with Trump Presented by Donald Trump is headed back to the White House. Assembly Speaker Robert Rivas told our Melanie Mason that “California will do everything we can to protect America from Donald Trump.” And Attorney General Rob Bonta, like his predecessor Xavier Becerra did during Trump’s first term, pledged to turn to the courts to …

With new Trump presidency, California is in for the fight of our lives
Trending News
1 month, 2 weeks ago

With new Trump presidency, California is in for the fight of our lives

LA Times  

Donald Trump has soundly won another term as president and in perhaps the most stunning part of this election, it wasn’t even that close. As much as California is waking up to a new era of Trump power, we are also waking up to the fact that the majority of Americans do not share the values that this state holds …

Column: Trump return could be a growing California nightmare. But leave the U.S? No need
1 month, 2 weeks ago

Column: Trump return could be a growing California nightmare. But leave the U.S? No need

LA Times  

Inyo County, the solidly-red county in the Eastern Sierra which supported Trump by a double-digit percentage in 2016, flipped for Biden in 2020 by just 14 votes. Vice President Kamala Harris, a California native, lost to former President Trump, and it wasn’t even close. Not that Trump policies as president had much of an impact on those problems in California …

California girds for war with Trump
1 month, 2 weeks ago

California girds for war with Trump

Politico  

The groundwork for a raft of court challenges has been in the works for more than two years, ever since the Supreme Court struck down Roe v. Wade, said California Attorney General Rob Bonta, who instructed his team to draft a brief against a potential national abortion ban. Trump has been persistently hostile to the country’s most populous state, threatening …

California is a battleground state (if you know where to look)
2 months, 1 week ago

California is a battleground state (if you know where to look)

LA Times  

Former President Trump at a rally at Calhoun Ranch in Coachella on Saturday. Five of those races are in California, where Republican House members are fighting costly and acrimonious reelection battles.” Derek Tran, who is running against GOP Rep. Michelle Steel in the 45th Congressional District, with House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries at an Anaheim campaign event Saturday. “California matters …

Trump’s California speech depicts Golden State as a ‘Paradise Lost’
2 months, 1 week ago

Trump’s California speech depicts Golden State as a ‘Paradise Lost’

Politico  

“Kamala Harris got you into this mess and only Trump is going to get you out of it,” he said. California once had the “best schools, safest communities and a booming middle class,” Trump said, then the state started its dystopian descent when Harris was the district attorney of San Francisco. Trump said he would get rid of California’s sanctuary …

Donald Trump Holds A Rally In California, A State He's Almost Certain To Lose
2 months, 1 week ago

Donald Trump Holds A Rally In California, A State He's Almost Certain To Lose

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING COACHELLA, Calif. — With the presidency on the line in battlegrounds like Wisconsin and Pennsylvania, Donald Trump spent Saturday night in solidly liberal California, seeking to link Vice President Kamala Harris to what he described as the failures of her home state. Trump is almost certain to lose California, and that won’t change after his Saturday stop …

In Coachella, Trump returns to a favorite theme: Bashing California
2 months, 1 week ago

In Coachella, Trump returns to a favorite theme: Bashing California

LA Times  

With just 23 days left until election day and voters already casting ballots, former President Trump rallied supporters in the California desert while railing against the state’s Democratic leadership, notably his presidential rival, Vice President Kamala Harris. Still, he called Trump’s decision to visit Coachella — in one of the bluest states in the country — “baffling.” Trump addresses the …

Column: The allure of Trump among California Republicans remains despite his depravity
3 months, 1 week ago

Column: The allure of Trump among California Republicans remains despite his depravity

LA Times  

Former President Trump speaks during a presidential debate with Vice President Kamala Harris at the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia on Tuesday. “I think the Bill Clinton era had a lot to do with it.” Politics On a night of fierce exchanges, Harris sets the tone Kamala Harris got an apparent boost when pop megastar Taylor Swift said she plans …

Column: They say Democrats are to blame for all California’s problems. But GOP is MIA
3 months, 2 weeks ago

Column: They say Democrats are to blame for all California’s problems. But GOP is MIA

LA Times  

A pair of homeless men rest along the Pacoima Wash below State Route II8 in Pacoima on Aug. 16. “Major problems and issues surrounding us locally, statewide and nationally are more complex than simply looking at and blaming those now running the political shows,” said Jaime Regalado, former director of Cal State L.A.’s Pat Brown Institute. “There’s a simply unrealistic …

Why Project 2025 and the GOP platform bash California
5 months ago

Why Project 2025 and the GOP platform bash California

LA Times  

It’s Thursday, July 18. Here’s what you need to know to start your day: Project 2025 and GOP platform strategy: Blast California and possible Biden replacements Then-President Trump and California Gov. A Heritage Foundation spokesperson told The Times that Project 2025 is a product of more than 100 conservative organizations and “does not speak for any candidate or campaign.” As …

Editorial: Musk and the GOP like to trash California. But they couldn’t get by without us
5 months ago

Editorial: Musk and the GOP like to trash California. But they couldn’t get by without us

LA Times  

SpaceX in Hawthorne on July 17, 2024. Elon Musk’s threat Tuesday to move the headquarters of Hawthorne-based SpaceX and X, the social media platform based in San Francisco, to Texas is just the latest example of the rich and powerful trying to score political points by bashing the Golden State. Former President Trump frequently portrays California as a dystopian hellscape, …

California Republicans, long in the minority at home, get a Trump boost at RNC
5 months, 1 week ago

California Republicans, long in the minority at home, get a Trump boost at RNC

LA Times  

Eric Trump watches the roll call of states during the Republican National Convention on Monday night. California Republicans, long banished to the hinterlands of their home state’s politics, enjoyed being surrounded by like-minded conservatives at the Republican National Convention — and hearing some bashing of the blue state’s politicians and policies. “Every time I go out there I go, ‘Man, …

Newsom attacks ‘delusional California bashers’ in unorthodox speech
5 months, 4 weeks ago

Newsom attacks ‘delusional California bashers’ in unorthodox speech

LA Times  

Gavin Newsom delivered his third State of the State address virtually from an empty Dodger Stadium. Gavin Newsom took on “delusional California bashers” and lauded the state’s economic prowess and inclusive values in an unorthodox State of the State speech that he shared in a video Tuesday on social media. “People across the globe, they look to California and see …

Column: Trump loves fossil fuels; California wants clean energy. Cue collision
8 months, 3 weeks ago

Column: Trump loves fossil fuels; California wants clean energy. Cue collision

LA Times  

Former aides say Donald Trump, if he is returned to the White House, would try to revoke California’s tough vehicle emissions standards and open more federal waters, possibly including the Pacific Coast, to oil drilling. In 2019, after automobile manufacturers complained that the California standards were a burden, Trump announced that he was revoking the state’s waiver “in order to …

How bashing California became a requirement for conservative politicians
8 months, 3 weeks ago

How bashing California became a requirement for conservative politicians

LA Times  

For most of the 19th and 20th centuries, residents of the rest of the country often saw California as the place their wacky or adventurous or beautiful cousin went to seek gold, celebrity, sunny beaches, sexual freedom, and maybe a new identity, away from the family and the baggage in St. Paul, Philadelphia or Levittown. “Some of it, from a …

‘A symbol of our nation’s decline.’ Trump vows to remake California
9 months ago

‘A symbol of our nation’s decline.’ Trump vows to remake California

LA Times  

Former President Trump gestures to the crowd at a campaign rally March 16 in Vandalia, Ohio. McManus adds: He says he’ll close the U.S.-Mexico border on his first day in office — the day he has set aside to act as “a dictator” — and launch “the largest domestic deportation operation in American history.” His Santa Monica-born immigration advisor, Stephen …

‘I must be better than Trump’: Why California’s elections chief is keeping the former president on the ballot
11 months, 3 weeks ago

‘I must be better than Trump’: Why California’s elections chief is keeping the former president on the ballot

LA Times  

California Secretary of State Shirley Weber is resisting pressure from within the Democratic Party to remove Donald Trump from the March statewide primary ballot due to his role in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol — arguing that, unlike the former Republican president, she feels obligated to follow the law. “And I must be better than Trump.” Weber …

Donald Trump will stay on California GOP presidential primary ballot
11 months, 3 weeks ago

Donald Trump will stay on California GOP presidential primary ballot

LA Times  

Then-President Trump walks off Marine One on the South Lawn of the White House in 2020. Former President Trump will be on California’s March 5 presidential primary ballot, despite calls from some officials to disqualify him because of the Jan. 6 insurrection. Earlier Thursday, Maine’s secretary of state removed Trump from the state’s primary ballot, citing the 14th Amendment, which …

California official seeks to boot Trump from ballot after landmark Colorado ruling
1 year ago

California official seeks to boot Trump from ballot after landmark Colorado ruling

The Independent  

Sign up for the daily Inside Washington email for exclusive US coverage and analysis sent to your inbox Get our free Inside Washington email Get our free Inside Washington email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy The dam has officially broken following the Colorado Supreme Court’s …

Trump’s intensifying rhetoric offers insight into how he might govern again as president
1 year, 2 months ago

Trump’s intensifying rhetoric offers insight into how he might govern again as president

Associated Press  

Over the past two weeks, Donald Trump said shoplifters should be immediately shot, suggested the United States’ top general be executed and mocked a political opponent’s husband who was beaten with a hammer. The former president and current front-runner for the Republican presidential nomination also in recent weeks encouraged the impeachment of Democratic President Joe Biden because the “lowlifes Impeached …

Letters to the Editor: Republicans, would you want your kids to emulate Donald Trump?
1 year, 2 months ago

Letters to the Editor: Republicans, would you want your kids to emulate Donald Trump?

LA Times  

Supporters of Donald Trump celebrate before the former president speaks at the California Republican Party convention in Anaheim on Sept. 29, 2023. To the editor: After I read about former President Trump’s speech to the Orange County “make America great again” faithful at the California Republican Party’s fall convention in Anaheim, I could not help but wonder what these admirers …

This week, a temblor reshaped California politics
1 year, 2 months ago

This week, a temblor reshaped California politics

LA Times  

Laphonza Butler, from left, wife Neneki Lee and Vice President Kamala Harris reenact the swearing-in of Butler as the successor of the late Sen. Dianne Feinstein. On the Democratic side, four people “dominated California politics for the last 50 years,” said former State Controller Steve Westly, pointing to former Assembly Speaker Willie Brown, Gov. “It’s refreshing to have a new …

'If you rob a store, expect to be shot': Trump's tough-on-crime message at rally
1 year, 2 months ago

'If you rob a store, expect to be shot': Trump's tough-on-crime message at rally

India Today  

In an occasionally dark and profane speech, Donald Trump on Friday sought to win over Republicans in California by complaining that rich people in Beverly Hills smell bad because they’re denied water, reiterating lies about widespread election fraud and calling on police to shoot people robbing stores. During his first year in office, Trump advised police to be rougher in …

Trump animates California Republicans with calls to shoot people who rob stores
1 year, 2 months ago

Trump animates California Republicans with calls to shoot people who rob stores

Associated Press  

ANAHEIM, Calif. — In an occasionally dark and profane speech, Donald Trump on Friday sought to win over Republicans in California by complaining that rich people in Beverly Hills smell bad because they’re denied water, reiterating lies about widespread election fraud and calling on police to shoot people robbing stores. Trump tapped into California Republicans’ exhaustion with their state’s Democratic …

Trump attacks Pelosi and Newsom while rallying California Republicans
1 year, 2 months ago

Trump attacks Pelosi and Newsom while rallying California Republicans

LA Times  

Trump supporters gather at the entrance to the California Republican Party Convention at the Anaheim Marriott on Friday. “We’re thrilled to be here with the conservative patriots who are leading the charge to take back the state from the radical left lunatics,” Trump said. The former president lambasted California’s mail-in voting procedures with unproven claims that residents were getting “five …

California, a liberal bastion, may give Donald Trump an unlikely boost in 2024
1 year, 2 months ago

California, a liberal bastion, may give Donald Trump an unlikely boost in 2024

Associated Press  

LOS ANGELES — Few corners of the U.S. may be less hospitable to Donald Trump than California, where he lost by more than 5 million votes in the 2020 election. A state GOP rule change has opened the possibility that Trump could sweep each of the state’s 169 delegates on March 5, when California is among more than a dozen …

California Politics: Newsom and his environmental agenda take the national stage
1 year, 3 months ago

California Politics: Newsom and his environmental agenda take the national stage

LA Times  

Gavin Newsom speaks at the United Nations Climate Ambition Summit on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly meeting in New York on Wednesday. Gavin Newsom headed to New York this week to talk up his administration’s efforts to combat climate change and to take a swing or two at former President Trump and his Republican compadre, Republican House Speaker …

Column: Trump in court. Newsom in Florida. Clarence Thomas on a yacht. What it means for California
1 year, 8 months ago

Column: Trump in court. Newsom in Florida. Clarence Thomas on a yacht. What it means for California

LA Times  

Clarence Thomas on a yacht. And let’s not forget the Bud Light brouhaha, an Idaho law meant to stop girls from leaving the state to obtain an abortion and Tennessee Republicans booting two Democratic lawmakers for leading a gun safety protest in the state General Assembly. Whether Newsom is really trying to position himself for an eventual White House run, …

News Analysis: After primaries, California takes on crucial role in battle for control of Congress
2 years, 6 months ago

News Analysis: After primaries, California takes on crucial role in battle for control of Congress

LA Times  

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy of Bakersfield must defend several incumbent Republicans in tough districts in his home state. Tuesday’s election results elsewhere in the state — the recall of Chesa Boudin, San Francisco’s progressive top prosecutor, and a strong showing in the Los Angeles mayoral race by Rick Caruso, a mega-developer and onetime Republican — have some national Democrats …

California Republicans are convening. What to know as the state GOP tries to flip its fortunes
2 years, 8 months ago

California Republicans are convening. What to know as the state GOP tries to flip its fortunes

LA Times  

President Reagan and First Lady Nancy Reagan ride horses at their Santa Barbara ranch, Rancho del Cielo, in 1982. The launching pad for Presidents Ronald Reagan and Richard Nixon, the state remains home to many of the party’s wealthiest donors as well as nearly 5.3 million registered GOP voters. Politics House GOP leader Kevin McCarthy backs away from blaming Trump …

Conservatives say California is a disaster -- but facts show the opposite
2 years, 9 months ago

Conservatives say California is a disaster -- but facts show the opposite

Raw Story  

Unless you’ve been hiding under a rock for decades, you’ve probably noticed that conservatives hate California. The facts show that California attracts more capital, creates more wealth, generates jobs with better pay, suffers lower rates of work-related fatalities and has safer streets and longer lives. Never one to resist attacking California, The Wall Street Journal editorial board ran an editorial …

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