Ballot measures show us turning to the right. The defeat of Marxists like Mayor Breed in San Fran and DA Gascon in L.A., shows we are moving to the right. The Recall of the Marist Mayor of Oakland and Alameda DA, shows we are turning right. The increase in Hispanic votes for the GOP is a sign we are turning to the right. The big question is if this is an anomaly, or does it continue to 2026?
“Trump got more than 5.7 million votes this year – which is 1.2 million more than he won in 2016. Kamala Harris managed to get only 103,000 more than Hillary Clinton captured in 2016.
Trump’s vote share, meanwhile, has climbed in both his reelection efforts. It went from 31.5% in 2016, to 34.3% in 2020, to 38% this year.
Trump made big gains among Hispanics in the state. In fact, he definitively won three of the four counties with the biggest share of Hispanics — Tulare (by a 59%-43% margin), Merced (52%-46%), and Colusa (63%-34%). And Harris barely carried Imperial, which has the highest percentage of Latino residents in the state, winning by a 50%-47% margin.”
The signs point to a turn around. Next years the State will have a larger deficit, Trump will end lots of crazy exemptions in the environment, water, energy and education fields. As more firms leave the State the highest unemployment rate in the nation will get higher. At the same time inflation will continue to increase. California is in a DOOM LOOP.
Is California Turning Purple?
I & I Editorial Board, 11/18/24 https://issuesinsights.com/2024/11/18/is-california-turning-purple/
Two days after Donald Trump won the election, Calif. Gov. Gavin Newsom announced a special legislative session to “safeguard California values and fundamental rights in the face of an incoming Trump administration.”
But Newsom could have a fight on his hands with Californians who are clearly tired of Newsom’s and his fellow leftists’ “values.”
Almost across the board, California voters rejected leftist ballot initiatives, often by wide margins. “State voters took a hammer to the most progressive propositions,” noted I&I contributor Thomas Buckley.
Examples:
- After watching previous minimum wage increases devastate local businesses and do little to improve the welfare of unskilled workers, a ballot initiative to hike the state’s minimum wage to $18 lost by a 51% to 49% margin.
- Even after Bidenflation drove up housing costs, voters rejected an initiative that would have let cities and counties impose strict rent control laws. Back in 1995, the state approved the Costa-Hawkins Rental Housing Act, which blocked cities and counties from imposing rent control on certain types of housing or when units become vacant. By a whopping 60%-40% margin, Californians voted to keep that 1995 law in place.
- A proposal to lower the threshold for local bond measures from a two-thirds supermajorty to a 55% majority went down in flames, with 55% of Californians voting against it.
- By a 69% to 31% margin, voters who’ve watched their cities get ripped apart by crime said “enough,” and approved a tough-on-crime measure that would “increase penalties for certain drug crimes and theft convictions and allow a new class of crime to be called treatment-mandated felony.”
Even in bluer-than-blue Los Angeles, voters overwhelmingly ousted soft-on-crime Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascón, replacing him with Nathan Hochman, who got widespread backing from law enforcement. In other local elections, voters in crime-infested Oakland recalled Oakland’s mayor and Alameda County’s district attorney, and San Francisco voters elected a moderate-ish mayor.
Then there’s the presidential election.
Trump got more than 5.7 million votes this year – which is 1.2 million more than he won in 2016. Kamala Harris managed to get only 103,000 more than Hillary Clinton captured in 2016.
Trump’s vote share, meanwhile, has climbed in both his reelection efforts. It went from 31.5% in 2016, to 34.3% in 2020, to 38% this year.
Trump made big gains among Hispanics in the state. In fact, he definitively won three of the four counties with the biggest share of Hispanics — Tulare (by a 59%-43% margin), Merced (52%-46%), and Colusa (63%-34%). And Harris barely carried Imperial, which has the highest percentage of Latino residents in the state, winning by a 50%-47% margin.
“Today, California remains a bastion of blue, but that’s changing,” writes Edward Ring in a piece in American Greatness titled “Stirrings of Realignment Even in California.”
So what California “values,” exactly, does Newsom intend to protect?
As is often the case these days, the satire site Babylon Bee hit the nail on the head with its headline:
“Newsom Assures Californians They Will Be Safe From All The Trump Administration’s Prosperity, Safety, Lower Prices.”
If we had free and fair elections, we’d probably be a red state.
CA very well might be turning purple or already be red. CA being part of the group of states that are still counting ballots is telling. We/CA used to have results the next day and people in general were more content with the results than they are now with the votes being counted by computers (which would probably make one think the results would be almost instantaneous, or why do it). Now that computers are used it’s a mess. BTW, except for an extreme extenuating circumstance which I cannot even dream up now, the only reason things get delayed in counting is to cheat. In Marin County we, out of our own pockets (no local or state GOP involved), paid to have our voter rolls analyzed by a election software pro and we sued the county and SOS over it. Of course, they came back with “you don’t have standing.” It makes you wonder who has standing if a frustrated voter in an election doesn’t. I’ll ask you the reader, did you think the state GOP or you local GOP might have stepped up and financed the voter roll analysis statewide. My feeling is the CA GOP should have invested in the same (or same type) software we did and use it in most of the counties. They sure raise a lot of money talking about Election Integrity but I have not heard of them doing anything except “poll watcher/worker” training. What does the CAGOP do with all the money it raises if it does nothing about voter rolls. I also ask you to look at leadership of the state of CA, is that something the CAGOP should be proud about. What are they doing?