The Sheriff Chad Bianco des Riverside County announces the California governor

The sheriff of Riverside County, Chad Bianco, officially explained his run for the governor in California on Monday.

He made The announcement At 11:30 a.m. event in the historic event center of Avila in Riverside from 1929.

In the sheriff’s declaration of campaign, it says that he has been a law enforcement agency for more than 30 years and “he believes in faith, family and service over himself.” He is expected that his family and several elected officials will be accompanied at the announcement on Monday.

Bianco was elected for the first time in 2018 as Riverside County’s sheriff and re -elected in 2022. Theft in retail and drug -related crimes.

A Proud supporter of President TrumpBianco recently spoke out against alleged rumors about ice attacks, which was carried out by MPs in the Sheriff department of the Riverside County, in which he published a video in which he also criticized state legal law in California. He described SB 54 as “dangerous” and sworn to “fight it”.

Bianco made national headlines last year when the deputies with his department arrested a man outside the rally of President Trump in Coachella Valley on suspicion of weapons costs. Bianco announced the arrest that he believed that the MPs had thwarted an attempted attack. However, the US public prosecutor later said that the former President Trump was in no danger, while a federal official CBS News announced that there was no indication of an assassination attempt in connection with the arrest of the man.

During the Covid Lockdowns, Bianco, with several sheriffs nationwide, joined the use of law enforcement resources to enforce mask mandates and output locks. Some legislators considered the positions of Bianco and other sheriffs to be harmful for public health.

In 2023, Bianco put two deputy deaths on duty in his department. After he had spoken The commemorative service of deputy Isaiiah CorderoAlmost three weeks later, Bianco was again in front of a tragedy in the department and made comments Deputy Darnell Calhoun’s memorial service.

At Cordero’s service, he blew up the system that he had led to the death of the deputy.

“This tragedy should have been (prevented) from the criminal justice system,” said Bianco. “This suspect was on his third strike in 2021. Instead of maintaining a prison sentence of 25 years in the state prison, a judge reduced his deposit. He did not appear because of the conviction … and the same judge left him again. We have released it again.

The sheriff was loud about his differences with governor Gavin Newsom and said in an earlier interview: “We are not agreed with a lot.”

While Newsom will not be on the ballot for the general elections in November 2026, the field of potential candidates has grown. Last year Lt. Governor Eleni Kounalakis, together with the former mayor and spokesman for the Assembly of Los Angeles, Antonio Villaraigosa and the former state controller Betty Yee, all democrats, their candidacy.

Attorney General Rob Bonta recently announced Politico that he would not run for the governor in 2026, while Kamala Harris drove the speculation at the beginning of this month while asked the Palisades Fire Site, neither confirmed nor the reports that it will run.