President Donald Trump is in California to raise money for Republicans, and to tout his economic record.

On the numbers alone, he has a decent case to make.

The economy has continued to grow, albeit at a slower pace (1.5%) in the second quarter than the first (2.1%). Unemployment remains almost as low as it has ever been (4.2%).

Inflation is higher than anyone wants it to be (3.5%) — but it’s not as bad as it could be, especially given that we are at war in the Middle East. Likewise with gas prices.

That’s because Trump long ago put the US on a path to energy independence — and energy abundance.

Under the first Trump administration, the US passed Russia and Saudi Arabia to become the world’s largest oil producer.

The shale gas revolution, made possible by fracking, which Democrats have often opposed, has made energy cheaper — and cleaner.

And Trump’s successful intervention against Nicolás Maduro had brought Venezuelan oil onto world markets, which has kept prices from rising too high.

That’s where California’s economy has parted ways from the rest of the country.

Under Gavin Newsom and the Democrats, the state has been shutting down its fossil fuel industry — and its own energy supply.

California depends on foreign oil, much of it from the Middle East, which has to be shipped via tanker through the Strait of Hormuz and across the Pacific, burning a lot of carbon on the way.

That doesn’t help the planet, and it certainly doesn’t help California drivers and businesses. Californians pay the nation’s highest gas prices, and the second-highest energy costs (after Hawaii). 

Newsom is fighting Trump over the Sable offshore oil field, which the president forced back into action, helping Americans — and Californians.

High gas and energy prices are major factors in the high cost of living — and the fact that California has the fourth-highest unemployment rate in America.

Yet there is still hope here. 

The boom in artificial intelligence (AI) is creating incredible new opportunities in California — and raising new tax revenues that are filling state and local coffers.

Ironically, AI needs more energy to keep that growth going.

California needs to “sober up” about energy — which is what Newsom said during an electricity shortage in 2020, before going right back to his radical “green” policies.

Newsom likes to argue with Trump. Maybe, on this issue, he should follow Trump’s lead.