LA officials appear eager for Trump visit amid wildfire recovery

Key officials in Democrat-run Los Angeles appear eager for President-elect Donald Trump to visit the city amid the recovery efforts in the wake of major wildfires that ravaged the area.

“I’m ready for him. We’ll be excited to see him here, you know, to be in Pacific Palisades, here in the city of Los Angeles, the San Fernando Valley, and Pasadena, Altadena," City Council President Marqueece Harris-Dawson said in a Sunday appearance on MSNBC.

Harris-Dawson further indicated that Mayor Karen Bass and Gov. Gavin Newsom, D-Calif., were working to get Trump to visit the city before his inauguration.

Bass herself moreover, touted what she called a "fine" phone call with Trump and indicated she was unconcerned about political differences affecting the federal response to the fires, Fox News reported over the weekend.

"I joined with the supervisor, and the governor and spoke directly with the incoming administration yesterday. It was a fine call," she told reporters.

Los Angeles County supervisor Kathryn Barger, moreover, highlighted that the affected community is "exact constituency that he was talking to" while on campaign.

"So I am confident that this president will come," she said.