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California lawmaker switches party, criticizes Democratic leadership

By TRÂN NGUYỄN - Aug 08, 2024, 08:41 PM ET
Last Updated - Aug 08, 2024, 08:41 PM EDT
California Legislature Party Switch
FILE - State Senator Marie Alvarado-Gil, D-Jackson, at the Capitol in Sacramento, Calif., Monday, July 10, 2023. Alvarado-Gil announced Thursday, Aug. 8, 2024, that she is switching to the Republican Party. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli,File)

A moderate California Democratic state lawmaker is announcing Thursday that she is switching to the Republican Party

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A moderate California Democratic state lawmaker announced Thursday that she is switching to the Republican Party while criticizing her former party's leadership and policies.

State Sen. Marie Alvarado-Gil said she had long been a Democrat, but she and the Democratic Party no longer have the same values since she was elected in 2022.

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“In the past two years that I've been working in the Senate, I have not recognized the party that I belong to,” Alvarado-Gil said in an announcement on “The Steve Hilton Show,” a YouTube series hosted by a former Fox News host and policy adviser to British ex-Prime Minister David Cameron. “The Democratic Party is not the party that I signed up for decades ago.”

Alvarado-Gil represents a largely rural district northeast of the Central Valley. She said the Democratic Party's policies are hurting middle class and children in California and pushing the state in a wrong direction.

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