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Monday's announcement that former president Donald Trump will maintain a rally close to Coachella on Saturday was slammed by a number of elected officers within the jap Coachella Valley, with Coachella Mayor Steven Hernandez saying Trump “wasn’t invited by the people who live here.”
“The City of Coachella was proud to welcome Senator Bernie Sanders during the 2020 primary election, but news of former President Trump’s upcoming visit has been met very differently,” Hernandez mentioned. “Trump’s assaults on immigrants, girls, the LQBTQ group and essentially the most weak amongst us don’t align with the values of our group.
“He has consistently expressed disdain for the type of diversity that helps define Coachella,” the mayor added. “We don’t know why Trump is visiting near Coachella, but we know he wasn’t invited by the people who live here. He ain’t like us.”
U.S. Rep. Raul Ruiz, D-Indio, echoed the feelings, saying it’s “truly appalling — and yet another demonstration of his cluelessness and ignorance — that Donald Trump would stage a rally in Coachella” in an announcement shared with The Desert Sun.
“Under a second Trump administration, there is literally no place in America that would be harmed more than the Coachella Valley,” Ruiz mentioned, referring to Trump’s tariff insurance policies, his “hate-driven immigration policy” and his “ignorant opposition to clean energy.”
“Donald Trump — and his policies — are an affront to everything that makes the Coachella Valley a vibrant community,” the congressman added.
Coachella City Councilmember Frank Figueroa and Indio City Councilmember Waymond Fermon also condemned the rally in prepared statements, with Fermon calling Trump “a threat to our needs and to democracy itself.”
The rally will take place at 5 p.m. at Calhoun Ranch, which is in unincorporated Riverside County near both Coachella and Indio city limits.
In Coachella, registered Democratic voters outnumber their Republican counterparts by a roughly 4-to-1 margin.
California has voted Democrat in every presidential election since 1992 and supported Trump's opponents over him by a nearly 2-1 margin in both of the previous elections in which he was a candidate for president. It is considered one of the most reliably Democrat-leaning states and is not considered to be in play this year.
Coachella’s population is roughly 98% Latino, while about 41% of its residents were born outside of the United States. Indio, meanwhile, is about 68% Latino with about a quarter of residents born outside the US. The US Census does not collect information on citizenship.
During his 2024 campaign, Trump has repeatedly used racist rhetoric to describe undocumented immigrants, calling them “animals” and “not human,” while saying people crossing the Mexican border are fueling violent crimes in the U.S.
