Gloria Romero is turning her back on the Democratic Party. 

Romero, according to the New York Post, made the announcement - that she is leaving the Democratic Party - on Wednesday, Sept. 4. 2024.

This comes after Romero has, for many years, led Democrats in California's legislature. The Post reports that Romero "served as the state Senate majority leader for three years of her [roughly] 10-year stint in Sacramento."

That stint in California's Senate was from 2001 to 2010. She was majority leader from 2005 to 2008. And, before entering the California Senate, she spent a year in the state's General Assembly.

"Goodbye - adios"

Romero announced her departure from the Democratic Party in a press conference that she held in Sacramento, California, on Wednesday.

"In this Capitol behind me, I served as both Senate Democratic Caucus chair and the Senate Majority Leader. Today, I say goodbye, adios, I’ve had enough," Romero said.

She continued:

I am now another near-lifelong Democrat who is joining the growing number of people, including key groups like Latinos, who are leaving the Democratic Party. This is not the Democratic Party I once championed, I do not recognize it anymore.

Romero went on to explain that she cannot support many of the policies that the Democratic Party currently stands for.

She said:

I for example think we are going to solve nothing by banning gas stoves. As a Latina, I will not give up my gas stove because you can not toast a tortilla on an electric range. That is just bad news, another reason to leave the Democratic Party.

Another win for Trump

It is one thing for a longtime Democrat to leave the Democratic Party. It is another thing altogether to leave the Democratic Party and to support former President Donald Trump.

This, however, is exactly what Romero is doing. She said that she does plan to vote for Trump in the upcoming presidential election.

As Romero herself said she is only one of many lifelong Democrats to recently leave the Democratic Party because it has gone in a bad direction.

Perhaps, the most well-known recent example of a lifelong Democrat leaving the Democratic Party is that of Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. Kennedy has also endorsed Trump, and it appears that Kennedy could even play a role in Trump's administration, were Trump to win the upcoming election.

VP Harris’s Democratic Party would be unrecognizable to my father and uncle and I cannot reconcile it with my values.

The Democratic Party of RFK and JFK was the party of civil liberties and free speech. VP Harris‘s is the party of censorship, lockdowns, and medical coercion.…

— Robert F. Kennedy Jr (@RobertKennedyJr) August 15, 2024