Unlike the Secret Service, CHP only has law enforcement power in California. I guess technically CHP could have armed people out-of-state, but it’d be like any other armed civilian bodyguard then. So this is really only a comparable solution as long as Harris doesn’t leave California.
Frankly, it does occur to me that this is probably a good idea in general. Like, states should not have to cover this, but Trump pulling protection is not a good precedent, and mitigating that might be a good idea. It looks like John Bolton lives in Maryland — Trump just had the FBI raid his house, so he was in the news — and it might be a good idea for Maryland to provide a state police protection detail. At least as things stand, the number of people getting Secret Service protection pulled is not too large, so it’s probably realistically doable to handle it at a state level.
Unlike the Secret Service, CHP only has law enforcement power in California. I guess technically CHP could have armed people out-of-state, but it’d be like any other armed civilian bodyguard then. So this is really only a comparable solution as long as Harris doesn’t leave California.
Frankly, it does occur to me that this is probably a good idea in general. Like, states should not have to cover this, but Trump pulling protection is not a good precedent, and mitigating that might be a good idea. It looks like John Bolton lives in Maryland — Trump just had the FBI raid his house, so he was in the news — and it might be a good idea for Maryland to provide a state police protection detail. At least as things stand, the number of people getting Secret Service protection pulled is not too large, so it’s probably realistically doable to handle it at a state level.