California gubernatorial candidate Xavier Becerra launched a sharp attack on President Donald Trump during a campaign rally in San Diego, accusing the White House of ignoring the law and undermining democratic values. Speaking before labor union supporters, Becerra said Trump "does not care" what courts or critics think and warned against a government that refuses to listen to dissenting voices. The former Health and Human Services Secretary also highlighted housing affordability, workers' rights, and opportunities for young Americans as key reasons behind his run for California governor.
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00:00So first, I have to say to Joel and Jeremy and to 569, IBEW 569, we are in their house.
00:09Let's give them a round of applause.
00:16Anytime we can be in the house of labor, we are in a house with family.
00:23And that's because we need each other.
00:26Sometimes the world is against us.
00:29Sometimes government is against us.
00:31Sometimes it feels like nobody is listening.
00:34But one thing you can count on, if you've got to go in that foxhole, your brother or your sister
00:39from labor will be there with you.
00:41And so I want to say to IBEW 569, thank you very much for letting us be in your house
00:46today as we get ready to win this election for governor.
00:55And here I have to tip my hat to one of those real fighters when it comes to labor.
01:02Because they have no choice but to run towards danger when everyone is fleeing it.
01:08And that is our firefighters.
01:10And that's right.
01:13Doc Roberts and all the men and women, all the men and women who are fighting all the time to
01:20protect us, not just fires, but they take on anything.
01:24They are there with us all the time.
01:27And any time we can be with them in our house, house of labor, we want to thank them because
01:32we know they are always going to be with us.
01:34And, Doc, will you do us a favor?
01:35And to all those first responders and firefighters that made sure that Orange County, when that tank full of chemicals
01:42was on the verge of exploding, that they took their life in their own hands and they made sure that
01:49the danger was diffused.
01:51And today we can say that because of them, we are all much safer.
01:55So please, Doc, thank all of those first responders who did that work.
02:04And you heard Assemblymember Alvarez, who, everything he said was true except one thing.
02:11He doesn't look up to me when he speaks because he's a lot taller than me.
02:16But we do stand together.
02:19And I am so proud to get to stand with the likes of your representatives in the state legislature, the
02:26state assembly, Assemblymember Alvarez and Assemblymember Patel, because they are two champions.
02:31They are two fighters.
02:32And I am so lucky that when I'm up there in Sacramento, we'll be working together.
02:37And we'll be getting this done for each and every one of you.
02:43And you see, when we do this the right way, we have success.
02:49And we first have to recognize that here in the House of IBEW, that we do this together.
02:57And I mentioned the firefighters.
02:59And I got to mention the guys in Orange because coming out of LIUNA myself and my father is a
03:05pension member of LIUNA, all the labor folks in labor.
03:09We all have to work this together because we have to build together.
03:12And so I just want to acknowledge the men and women in Orange from the laborers union because I come
03:18from there myself.
03:19I want to say thanks very much for all that labor does.
03:25All of us who have the charge in Sacramento to work for you recognize the vast responsibility you are putting
03:34in our hands when you vote for us, for the legislators, for me as governor.
03:38Governor, you are putting your vote in our hands.
03:41And we know how precious it is.
03:43Now, I have to tell you.
03:46When when David tells his story, I suspect he tells the story of a lot of us.
03:52That's what makes me so proud to see where some of our leaders have gone, because I remember when I
03:58was a kid.
03:59And my parents weren't sure where they could turn to when they got swindled out of for them a big
04:05amount of money, about three thousand dollars.
04:07They needed an attorney, but they didn't know any attorneys.
04:10So they turned to the the best attorney they could find.
04:15Their son who is an undergraduate in college, because that's as good as it got.
04:19I can tell you that my first case as an attorney did not go well.
04:24But I learned a big lesson, not just how you have to make sure you understand the law, but how
04:31so many people depend on you.
04:33To know what to do for them.
04:36And I know that whether it's Assemblymember Patel or it's Assemblymember Alvarez.
04:42Many families are depending on them and they know what to do.
04:46And that's why we're so lucky.
04:47And so it is going to be such a treat to get to work with champions, with warriors who understand
04:54the fight.
04:55Not because they learned the law or they went to college, but they come from roots where they had no
05:01choice but to understand this is real.
05:04This is existential if we want to make this happen.
05:07And let me tell you why this is also important.
05:11Because today, the most important thing we can do is, I used to do, when I was in Congress, I
05:19used to do town hall meetings all the time throughout the district.
05:22Because I believe it's so important that people get to see the folks that are going to vote for them.
05:28And more often than not, the reason those town halls would get interesting is because somebody did not agree with
05:34me.
05:35And they would speak their mind.
05:37And you know what the best parts of those town halls were when we engaged in a conversation, in a
05:43dialogue.
05:44They said why they didn't like what I was doing.
05:46I explained why I did it.
05:47And then people at least had a chance to hear both sides.
05:51Now, I respect what the person was trying to say.
05:55I don't know what they were trying to say, but I respect what they were trying to say.
05:59If they were to do it in a way that was civil, then let's go at it.
06:04Then let's go at it.
06:08But here's the important aspect of that.
06:13We want there to be debate.
06:15We want there to be dissension.
06:17That's what makes democracy great, right?
06:19It's that today in Washington, you can't have dissension with this guy that's up in the White House.
06:25He doesn't even care what you say because he'll do it anyhow, right?
06:28We just found out that the courts ruled that his actions to rename the Kennedy Center, the Trump was thrown
06:35away.
06:38And you see, he doesn't even ask.
06:41He just goes out and does it, even if it's against the law.
06:44And that's what I don't want to do.
06:47I don't want us to become a society that doesn't listen or doesn't obey the law.
06:54At the end of the day, we want to be a strong democracy.
06:56And if we're going to be vibrant, it's because we listen and we act based on the rules.
07:01And so the person has a right to protest, but not to be uncivil.
07:08And therefore, I respect what that individual was hoping to accomplish.
07:13But what I was going to say before I was rudely interrupted is all of this matters.
07:21Having great leadership, having the family in the room where you know you can count on each other,
07:27all of it matters because we've got to leave something better than what we started with.
07:32Because, as you heard from the college Democrats and the young Democrats,
07:36what you heard from Malik and from Daniel is so important.
07:39By the way, if you don't know the difference between a young Democrat and you,
07:44then you're not a young Democrat, okay?
07:50I won't put a date on it, but if you don't know, then you're not a young Democrat, okay?
07:57As we would say in labor, you're a journeyman, okay?
07:59You're a journeyman.
08:01But the beauty of the young Dems and the college Dems is that we want to leave them something better
08:09because you've got to make it even better than what we did.
08:14And when I would go to them, I really wanted their support.
08:19Because to me, if I could get young people saying, yeah, we want Becerra, it's a big statement to me
08:27because it's a, we believe that our future, which is still ahead of us, this guy can open that door.
08:33Most of us, I see some of you with some gray hair, some of you without any hair,
08:38but, yeah, we can laugh about it.
08:43We can laugh about it.
08:44But the beauty is we've gone through some of these things, right?
08:48Remember some of those days that were probably pretty tough?
08:51Somehow we figured out how to make it through.
08:53I could tell you right now,
08:55it is tougher today than it was for those of us in those earlier days.
08:59I was able to buy my house when I was about 30 years of age.
09:04The average age today in buying a house is over 40 years of age.
09:08And it's getting worse and worse and worse.
09:11And what are we going to leave these young folks?
09:14It has to be better than what we had.
09:17I was able to buy at about 30.
09:19My parents, they bought pretty early too, but my dad didn't get past the sixth grade.
09:24My mother didn't come here until she married my father when she came at the age of 18
09:28from Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico.
09:30It is, it is, yeah, I always tell people that's not one word,
09:38Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico.
09:39That's three words, three words.
09:42But, you know, it's so fascinating that a guy with a sixth grade education
09:49married to a woman who didn't get past high school when she was in Mexico,
09:54together working hard,
09:56they still could do things that today
09:58our young generation is wondering if they'll ever have a chance to do.
10:03That is what we've got to fight against.
10:05That's why I'm running for governor,
10:07because I want Malik and I want Daniel to know
10:09that we are going to all working together
10:11in this house, in this family,
10:14we're going to make it so they have a better life than what we ever had.
10:17That's why I'm running for governor.
10:19So, I can tell you that it is incumbent upon us
10:24to work hard these last four days.
10:29You and me, we decide.
10:33You and me, we determine who becomes the next governor.
10:37You and me decide who will be in the legislature to fight for us.
10:43You and me decide if we'll be ready to take on any menace
10:47from any part of the world, including Washington, D.C.
10:51You and me.
10:54And let me tell you why that's so important.
10:57When I took on a tough assignment
10:59at the Department of Health and Human Services
11:02to try to help take care of young children
11:06who had crossed the border without any adult supervision,
11:11they are called unaccompanied migrant children.
11:13I had to find a place that was not an adult prison to place them.
11:20And there were large numbers of them.
11:23And I had to hunt for places
11:25so we could find where they could be cared for
11:27because it had to be licensed care.
11:30You can't just put them anywhere.
11:31There has to be licensed professionals offer care to children.
11:36And so I had to quickly start to figure out
11:39where to set up some of these places
11:41that these kids could stay safely, securely, humanely.
11:45I turned to your mayor, Todd Gloria,
11:50because you see, I needed a big place,
11:52big enough for all these kids.
11:55And the San Diego Convention Center stepped up.
11:59And it didn't step up on its own.
12:01It stepped up because you all had a mayor
12:03who said he wanted to help.
12:05And because of Mayor Gloria,
12:07I was able to then bring in health professionals,
12:11educational professionals,
12:13set up facilities so that we could provide
12:16the kind of care that you would expect for your child
12:20in this interim period
12:21while they were waiting to go through
12:23their immigration hearings.
12:25And I want to simply tell you
12:27how important it was
12:29to have champions who stepped up
12:32because it was tough
12:33and we had a responsibility by law
12:36to do this right.
12:38But for the warriors who stepped up
12:41to fight for these kids,
12:42it would have been very difficult.
12:44And this is where it's so important.
12:46When I say you and I have to fight,
12:48it's up to you and me.
12:50It really is because it was up to
12:52Mayor Gloria and me
12:54as the leaders of our respective
12:57agencies of government
12:58to make sure we did right by the law.
13:01And I want to tell you right now,
13:03Mayor Todd Gloria
13:05stepped up and he did right by the law.
13:07And you owe him a great thanks
13:08for what he did.
13:14And so, sisters and brothers,
13:16what I say to you,
13:17I say from the heart
13:19of a kid
13:20who was never expected
13:22to go to college,
13:23from the heart of a kid
13:25who never was expected
13:26to graduate
13:28from Stanford Law School,
13:30from the heart
13:31of a young man
13:32who was never expected
13:33to win his first race
13:34for the State Assembly
13:35in 1990,
13:36from the heart
13:38of a man
13:38who had a chance
13:39to go toe-to-toe
13:41with Donald Trump
13:43in court
13:44over 120 times
13:46when he tried to attack
13:47our state of California.
13:51I say this
13:52from the heart
13:53of the attorney
13:55who lost his first case
13:57when he was still
13:58an undergraduate
13:58but won a case
14:00in the Supreme Court
14:01to defend the DACA dreamers
14:03in the United States
14:05Supreme Court
14:07when Donald Trump
14:09tried to eliminate
14:10the program
14:10from that young man
14:12who was not an attorney
14:13and lost his first case
14:15to the attorney general
14:17who went all the way
14:18to the Supreme Court
14:19and defended Obamacare,
14:20the Affordable Care Act
14:21and beat Donald Trump
14:27to then have a chance
14:29to become
14:30the Secretary of Health
14:31and Human Services
14:32who with this heart
14:33had a chance
14:34for the first time
14:35in history
14:36to actually negotiate
14:38lower drug prices
14:39for some of the most
14:40expensive prescription medications
14:42in the world
14:43against some of the
14:44largest pharmaceuticals.
14:45We had a chance
14:46to do that
14:47because you gave me
14:48a chance.
14:50You've given these leaders
14:51a chance
14:52and I hope
14:53the reason we do this
14:54is because we know
14:56tomorrow
14:57we've got to keep
14:58that door open.
14:59We've got to keep
14:59that door open
15:00because Malik
15:01and Daniel
15:02are expecting
15:03to get to
15:04rush through that door
15:05and look at what we did
15:07and say
15:08Assembly Member Patel,
15:10Assembly Member Alvinas,
15:11they did some
15:12phenomenal stuff
15:14but we're going
15:15to do better.
15:17We're going
15:17to do better.
15:21That Becerra,
15:22not too bad,
15:23he did a few things
15:24in his life
15:24but we're going
15:25to do better.
15:28Those men
15:28and women
15:29of labor,
15:30they built up
15:31a great California
15:32but we're going
15:33to do more
15:35and together
15:36we will make
15:37that happen
15:38and so
15:39I have just
15:40two more questions
15:40for you.
15:42Are you ready
15:43to fight?
15:46I'm going
15:47to ask
15:47I'm going
15:48to ask
15:48it one more time
15:49and I think
15:50I should be hearing
15:51the House of Labor
15:53answer the question.
15:54Are you ready
15:55to fight?
15:59Now my last question,
16:00I know you know
16:01the last question
16:02but give me
16:02a House of Labor
16:03response.
16:04Are you ready
16:04to fight?
16:07Then let's go do it.
16:09Thank you all
16:10very much.
16:10Let us win
16:11June 2nd.
16:12Thank you very much.
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