California Republicans 12-5-24

More than 40% of Californians voted for Trump. California is not as liberal as Newsom' thinks. 

Experts say Californians aren't as far left "as Newsom thinks," citing several state ballot measures that swung conservative, followed by the ousting of progressive Soros-backed Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascon

Though Trump lost California to Vice President Kamala Harris, his electoral showing in the Golden State increased significantly; he got 31% of the vote in 2016 and 34% in 2020. Even with something of a conservative exodus driving many residents to red states like Florida and Texas, Trump increased his percentage of the state vote by six points.

In absolute terms, Trump's vote numbers from California come in third behind his showings in Texas and Florida.

"Trump built a cross party, multi party coalition," Susan Shelley, VP of communications for the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association, told Fox News Digital in an interview. "He's built a movement that crosses party lines, and it's reaching people who have not benefited from the policies that have been put forward." 

Regarding California's clean-energy mandates, Shelley said, "People have paid dearly for this, and that's what crosses party lines."

"Everybody's electricity bill is higher because of the climate policies," Shelley said. "And Trump is promising to do more domestic energy production to bring down the cost of energy, and he has a track record now of having done this as president for four years."

"The legislature is much, much more liberal, much more much further to the left than the voters are. And you can see that in the results in the propositions," Shelley, who is also a columnist, said. 

Proposition 36, which would reverse some soft-on-crime policies authored by L.A. DA George Gascon and re-establish felony offenses for certain drug and theft crimes, was overwhelmingly passed by California voters. 

Another tax-related measure, Proposition 5, also failed. Critics of the measure said it would likely have led to higher property taxes, because it would have lowered the threshold to local bond issues, which are backed by tax dollars.

Gascon, L.A.  County's district attorney since 2020, was also voted out. Independent candidate Nathan Hochman, a former assistant attorney general under President George W. Bush, will replace him.

"I think he knows that California is shifting and needs help," Shelley said. "And he has spoken many times about California's election process, mailing out 22 million ballots. He has concerns about that. He's spoken about voter ID laws. Whether he'll do anything about that as President, I don't know, but he certainly has indicated that he knows Californians are not as liberal as Gavin Newsom presents them to be."

In July, Newsom signed a new law banning school districts from notifying parents if their child uses different pronouns or identifies as a gender that is different from what’s on their school record.  

The law created significant pushback from California parents who spent months protesting the new law at local school district meetings, and one school district went so far as to sue Newsom over the law. 

"A lot of the social and cultural issues, the ethnic studies, the gender stuff, the hyper-sexuality that was happening in a lot of our schools, and they just didn't want that nationwide, especially with issues like Title Nine, where more and more women feel disenfranchised by the Biden administration," Christensen said.

"I think that you're seeing a shift in the partisan landscape of California, and it won't be dramatic, and it won't necessarily be consistent across the board, but I think there's a march towards some sort of sanity when it comes to politics that won't necessarily be a red-blue divide," he said. 

On Thursday, Newsom called a special emergency session for December with the state's legislature in response to Trump's victory and bolster the blue state's legal response to any future attacks.

"California is ready to fight," Newsom said on X. "Whether it be our fundamental civil rights, reproductive freedom, or climate action – we refuse to turn back the clock and allow our values and laws to be attacked."

His action comes just a day after Newsom said he "will seek to work with the incoming president."

Jamie Joseph is a writer who covers politics. She leads Fox News Digital coverage of the Senate.  

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/more-than-40-californians-voted

Comments

California’s Debt is $1.6 trillion and needs to be reduced. The dt drives the high cost of living and large companies are moving out. Newsome wants to add another $6.4 billion to the Debt. The Electric Grid is weak and EV Mandates need to end.

Water retention is not a physical condition in California, it is a necessity. Rural and Northern California where Agriculture is located needs the fresh mountain snow-melt water to irrigate crops. The Environmental crowd is diverting it to the Pacific Ocean to “save the tine smelt fish”. This is nuts. Trump policies are desperately needed in California.

There are some Republicans in California. Larry Elder and Steve Hilton are on Fox News and many movie stars are joining the Trump Train. California has some good US House Reps that have potential to form a solid bench of candidates to run for Governor.

Parts of Northern California have long wanted to split the state and actually become Northern California. They like Trump’s sugestions for ending the Annual Forest Fire and Mud Slide Festivals and retaining the water for agriculture and forestry. They would be satisfied with banishing the Liberals and becoming a Republican State again. The “strangle-hold” State Employee Unions have on the Legislature needs to be ended. Making California a “Right to Work State” is a good start.

Restricting Campaign Contributions to “Voters Only” would end the madness.

Norb Leahy, Dunwoody GA Tea Party Leader