Senator Padilla Responds to Trump Destruction & Attacks on Voting Rights

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🗓️ 2 April 2025

⏱️ 15 minutes

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MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas reports on Donald Trump losing the support of farmers who once voted for him and Meiselas interviews California Senator Alex Padilla about California farmers and his fight against the Trump regime. Visit https://meidasplus.com for more! Remember to subscribe to ALL the MeidasTouch Network Podcasts: MeidasTouch: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/meidastouch-podcast Legal AF: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/legal-af MissTrial: https://meidasnews.com/tag/miss-trial The PoliticsGirl Podcast: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-politicsgirl-podcast The Influence Continuum: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-influence-continuum-with-dr-steven-hassan Mea Culpa with Michael Cohen: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/mea-culpa-with-michael-cohen The Weekend Show: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-weekend-show Burn the Boats: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/burn-the-boats Majority 54: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/majority-54 Political Beatdown: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/political-beatdown On Democracy with FP Wellman: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/on-democracy-with-fpwellman Uncovered: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/maga-uncovered Coalition of the Sane: https://meidasnews.com/tag/coalition-of-the-sane Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Donald Trump voters continue to express their deep regrets online and elsewhere posts like this on conservative message boards.
0:09.2	I voted for Trump because I thought it would be funny to see liberals growl like dogs.
0:14.6	I wanted affordable groceries, but the tariffs are going to make everything worse and my life savings will be gone.
0:21.6	I can't afford to spend this money on groceries.
0:24.6	I didn't vote for this.
0:26.6	Even when you look at, let's say, a blue state like California, but you look at some of the red
0:32.6	areas, which tend to be the areas with more farmers, like take a look at Kern County and Fresno right there.
0:40.0	These are areas that voted for Donald Trump, about 60% in Kern County, about 50% in Fresno.
0:48.6	I think Trump was the first Republican to flip Fresno County since 2004.
0:53.6	But let's take a look at the Fresno B.
0:56.0	California farmers fear tariff trade war losses in billions uneven bailouts. You have a letter
1:03.6	from a group that includes the names of nearly two dozens of the state's most influential
1:09.7	farming organization, including the California
1:12.4	Farm Bureau, Western growers, and American pistachio growers. It says in part that the emerging
1:18.3	trade measures could trigger retaliatory tariffs that will hurt California farmers who exports totaled
1:24.9	23.6 billion in 2022. Take a look at the recent article from the Business Journal.
1:30.9	It talks about the California Farm Bureau president,
1:33.9	calling for 600 million in legislative action for farmers.
1:38.1	Farmers and agricultural leaders are once again highlighting the challenges
1:42.3	that they are not fate, that they are now facing.
1:45.8	The LA Times article, California farmers back Trump. Now his tariffs hurt them. When you look
1:52.4	elsewhere across the country, you're seeing the same type of pattern from USA today going to be
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