California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) called Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s (R-CA) deep-red Bakersfield district the “murder capital of California,” Politico reports.
He added’ “Two and a half times the murder rate of Nancy Pelosi’s San Francisco.”
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