Newsom spars with Trump-appointed prosecutor over 20,000 suspected noncitizens on voter rolls
Topics: California Politics
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- Fox News reports: “Gavin Newsom and Bill Essayli clashed over noncitizen voting after an LA County official said the registrar cannot verify voter citizenship.”
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