Democrat-centric California was one of just 19 states that didn’t support Republican Trump in the presidential election. Curiously, California confidence rose 18% in the three months following Trump’s first win in 2016. Californians’ sour outlook of their economics future was key to the drop in this measure of confidence.

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Biden won in rural Inyo County in eastern California by 14 votes in 2020 after its voters supported Trump in 2016. This year, the Republican won by a larger margin.

While Democrats retain a supermajority, experts say Republican wins – and an increasingly diverse GOP Caucus – signal potential shifts in voter sentiment among non white voters

There is no evidence California’s vote count is fraudulent. Experts say the state’s election laws result in many mail-in ballots, which take much longer to count.

California Republicans flipped a second seat in the state legislature, nearly three weeks after the general election. Republicans noted the party had not flipped a State Senate seat during a presidential election since 1980.

“I think she’d be by far the best governor candidate for the state of California,” said Michael Preston, who previously worked for Harris when she was state attorney general.

California sought to raise voter turnout by passing vote by mail, which election officials say slows the ballot counting process.

As Elon Musk prepares to wield more power in Washington, the state where he built his fortune is girding for a fight.

A late surge in votes has pushed a California Democrat into the lead in a congressional race, setting the party up to take three House seats away from sitting Republicans during an election year that otherwise has roundly rejected the liberal cause.