Article 6Y52V US senator Alex Padilla criticizes ‘petty’ JD Vance for calling him ‘Jose’

US senator Alex Padilla criticizes ‘petty’ JD Vance for calling him ‘Jose’

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Ramon Antonio Vargas
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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.

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