Rep. Kevin Kiley (R-CA) has chosen corporate donors over the America First agenda, stabbing President Trump in the back by opposing the administration's crucial tariff policies designed to protect American workers and rebuild our manufacturing base.
While President Trump fights to restore American economic dominance and bring jobs back from China, Kiley has joined a small group of GOP establishment sellouts who apparently prefer the globalist status quo that shipped our jobs overseas for decades.
This betrayal comes at a critical moment for Kiley's political future. His own district was obliterated by radical Governor Gavin Newsom's partisan gerrymandering scheme, forcing the congressman to choose between two different seats for reelection. Now California Republicans have to ask themselves: do we really want to send another RINO back to Washington?
America First vs. Chamber of Commerce
President Trump's tariff strategy is already working, pressuring China and other economic adversaries while incentivizing companies to bring manufacturing back to American soil. But Kiley apparently thinks he knows better than the man who delivered the greatest economy in American history.
"This is exactly the kind of thinking that got us into this mess in the first place," said one America First activist. "We didn't elect these people to cozy up to the same corporate interests that have been bleeding America dry for thirty years."
Patriots in California deserve representatives who will stand with President Trump's proven economic policies, not cave to pressure from the same globalist interests that want to see America fail.
While Trump fights for American workers, steelworkers, and manufacturers, Kiley joins the ranks of politicians more concerned with maintaining relationships with multinational corporations than protecting the interests of the people who elected him.
California Republicans now face a choice: reward this kind of establishment betrayal, or send a clear message that the America First movement demands loyalty to the agenda that actually works. The question isn't whether Kiley can win reelection—it's whether he deserves to.