California's Role in Global Leadership

In the United States.

You, you heard that speech from my president

yesterday,

oh, but called for a genocide of ninety-three

million people.

Nothing normal about that.

Mm-hmm.

Nothing normal about this moment.

I'm proud to represent, yes, the fourth largest economy in the world,

a state

larger than twenty-one state populations combined.

I'm proud to represent a state that was the founding state, San

Francisco, of the United Nations in nineteen hundred

and forty-five.

I'm also proud to represent a state that's twenty-seven percent foreign born,

where we practice pluralism. We don't tolerate our diversity, we

celebrate our diversity. That's what has allowed us to become the

fourth largest economy in the world.

But we also have this to share. We're also the most

un-Trump state in the United States of America.

And that's important, because there's probably nothing more

important

on this topic that you'll hear today

than the imperative of ending Trump's

presidency as we know it.

And that,

my friends, will happen this November when the

Democratic Party takes back the House of Representatives, and we

finally re-instill what our Founding Fathers lived

and died for, and that's a system of checks and

balances in the spirit of the Mayor of Boston's

remarks.

But my remarks are not just in the context of the invasive

species,

Donald Trump-

... but in the context of the work that we continue to do despite

the headwinds-

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of people that have their heads in the sand soaked by oil.

This is not complicated.

The challenge is self-evident, and some of us are as dumb as we wanna be,

subsidizing and doubling down on stupid.

Subsidizing the very problem we're trying to fix. It's not complicated.

It's from burning coal and gas and oil,

and of course that's what we're doubling down in the United States.

But not in the state of California.

That fourth largest economy, California, runs

every day

on two-thirds clean energy. In fact, so far this year, nine out of ten

days the fourth largest economy in the world is run on a

hundred percent renewable energy.

We are past the what and the why. We're past the goal

setting. We're in the great implementation.

We're in the how business, and we're proving the paradigm

that you're not

sacrificing your economic future to change the way you produce and consume

energy. Quite the contrary.

Why is California

such a vibrant and diverse

and entrepreneurial society? It's because of our rules for risk-taking,

not

recklessness. There is no, forgive us, Elon Musk

without California's regulatory system that

created the certainty where he can make the investments that ultimately

became Tesla.

We're proud of the entrepreneurial spirit that is at the heart

of our transition to low carbon. That's why we

refer to that green growth. Forty percent

GDP growth in the state of California since twenty

nineteen. No jurisdiction in America and no

Democratic jurisdiction in the world has grown faster than the state of

California as we've reduced our greenhouse gas emissions by

double digits at the same time. Let disabuse ourselves

that somehow this gets in the way of economic growth and economic

prosperity. So I wanna thank the mayors. I was a mayor.

Once a mayor, always a mayor. Governor, with respect and love as well.

I wanna thank the governors, because if you don't like the way the world looks

when

you're standing up, stand on your head and go local.

Mm.

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State vision and national vision are realized locally.

These are not just the dreamers, these are the doers. You're the doers.

And all around the globe, we're inspired. It's the power of emulation.

Success leaves clues. So I wanna conclude as I

began, with gratitude, respect, appreciation for

everyone who is here, not just for themselves, but in the

spirit of the ten thousand generations that go back to our Creator, that

count on us to meet this moment head on.

To lean in, to step up. To share not just our formal authority,

but to share our moral authority at peril of being judged not to

have lived. To all of you, thank you for all the work you've done to

get

us here, and I look forward to coming back to the

United Nations with the fresh

air of progress versus the stale air coming out of

Washington, DC-

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... of normalcy. Thank you all very much.