In case you missed it, Wednesday was the day for California's governor and lieutenant governor to say their peace, denounce Donald Trump, and endorse Hillary Clinton for President at the Democratic National Convention. They both only got five minutes, and tried to make the most of those in not quite prime time slots, and Jerry Brown's speech is practically downed out by some kind of chanting in the crowd.
In the video above you can hear Jerry Brown declare, in no uncertain terms, "Trump is a fraud," talking about how the candidate doesn't believe in climate change and says there's no drought in California.
And to naysayers about how climate-related regulations cost jobs, he declared that California’s "economy is growing faster than almost any nation’s in the world," despite our having the strictest restrictions in the nation.
As the Chronicle observes, Brown probably "never thought he’d be on stage at the Democratic National Convention endorsing a Clinton." He famously ran against Bill Clinton in the 1992 primary and refused to ever endorse him, and similarly refused in 1996. But 20 years have passed, and clearly they all have a common enemy in Trump.
Newsom, meanwhile, was probably disappointed with his time slot on Wednesday, pre-prime-time, and there seems to be a lot of muttering in the convention hall while he was speaking. And what's with that folks-y, almost southern twang? Is he trying to sound like Obama?
Anwyay, referring to Peter Thiel's appearance at the RNC, Newsom says that while it may have been "refreshing" seeing the first openly gay man speak about his gayness at a Republican convention, "it doesn't remove the sting of selecting Mike Pence, America’s most anti-LGBTQ governor" as Trump's running mate. He goes on to rail against Pence's support of gay conversion therapy, as he did last week in this Twitter rant, calling it "emotional torture."
He says Trump "strangled the sunny optimism of Ronald Reagan and replaced 'tear down that wall' with the cynical bigotry of 'build that wall.'"
And he says that Trump's "hostile takeover of the American dream is built on two fundamental lies: that America is a dark and desperate place, and that he has a plan to make it better."
Previously: Gavin Newsom Goes On Epic Twitter Rant About Trump And The Republicans' Anti-LGBT Platform