‘He knows my name,’ says California Democrat, as Newsom condemns US vice-president and challenges him to debate
JD Vance’s decision to refer to California US senator Alex Padilla by the name of a terrorist conspirator showed how “unserious” the Trump administration is, the lawmaker has said of the vice-president.
“He knows my name – he knows my name,” Padilla told MSNBC’s The Weekend on Saturday, 12 days after the FBI forcibly removed him from a 12 June news conference hosted by US homeland security secretary Kristi Noem amid anti-immigration and customs enforcement (Ice) protests in Los Angeles.
“Look, sadly it’s just an indicator about how petty and unserious this administration is. You’d think he’d take the situation in Los Angeles more seriously.
“We’ve got a lot of important work to do. But this is how the vice-president chooses to act, and that says a lot.”
