Another former Democrat is flipping to register Republican and this one is directly calling out Vice President Kamala Harris' poor record on education from her time in California.
Former California Senate Majority Leader Gloria Romero told Fox News she has "had enough" of the Democratic Party and has first-hand experience of the danger of trusting Harris to be a progressive leader.
"There are so many more like me, who have been disaffected Democrats, and we do not recognize this so-called party of democracy any longer," Romero said Thursday night in a televised interview.
A key picking point on Harris was the former California state attorney general seeking to "pass a bill that looked to jail mothers of students who were truant and not going to school."
"I have tried championing school choice, education freedom in California," Romero said. "Her record as attorney general showed that she did nothing to change the schools, to provide for school choice.
"In her hometown of Oakland, California, today, 75% of both African American and Latino children are not reading or doing math at basic levels of proficiency, and yet, she went to court with the teachers union — very powerful big donors — to block education reforms that these families had had the courage to go to court and sue over.
"That is the record of the attorney general of California."
Education is a deal-maker for Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump for moderates, even if the Democrats are not switching parties to Republican like Romero has, she said.
"The absence of school choice, education freedom, open borders, crime rampant — a mockery of citizenship itself," are the key sticking points for disenfranchised Democrats, according to Romero.
"Blue California may be blue, but people are ready to vote for change, to make America great again, and I take pride in saying that today."
Eric Mack ✉
Eric Mack has been a writer and editor at Newsmax since 2016. He is a 1998 Syracuse University journalism graduate and a New York Press Association award-winning writer.
© 2024 Newsmax. All rights reserved.