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DEC. 15, 2025 UPDATE: Now someone else is saying it. Politico, the Big Media arm of the Democrat Party, writing about the 2026 California governor’s race, says, “California Democrats have a math problem: They’ve added so many candidates in the race to succeed Gavin Newsom that two Republicans could end up winning the state’s quirky ‘jungle primary,’ shutting the Democrats out.”

NOV. 21, 2025 UPDATE: And now with Democrat Party congressman Eric Swalwell of San Francisco’s East Bay area declaring he’s running for governor too, we’ve again updated our hypothethical mathematical scenario below. Swalwell will further splinter Democrat Party voters.

NOV. 20, 2025 UPDATE: With the entrance into the governor’s race of leftist billionaire Tom Steyer, the odds of winning the “top two” of the June 2, 2026 “jungle primary” election have mathematically increased for mostly-conservative Republicans Chad Bianco and Steve Hilton. We’ve added Steyer to the hypothetical calculation below. The deadline to declare one’s candidacy for California governor is next March.

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Remember this hard-and-fast rule about California’s “jungle primary”: The “top two vote-getters” of any party are the two winners that advance to the November runoff.

Approved by California voters in June 2010, Proposition 14 requires, “All candidates for a given state or congressional office shall be listed on a single primary ballot. The top two candidates, as determined by the voters in an open primary, shall advance to a general election.”

Now for the big question — could both “primary election” winners be Republicans, guaranteeing a Republican governor? It’s a valid scenario.

In recent polling, Republican candidates for governor Chad Bianco and Steve Hilton have shot to the top:

· 11/7/25 Berkeley IGS poll of 8,141 registered voters: Bianco 13%, Porter 11%, Hilton 8%

· 10/24/25 Emerson College poll of 900 likely voters: Hilton 16%, Porter 15%, Bianco 11%

Why are Republicans scoring so high in liberal California? Let’s do the math, based on California’s 2024 presidential election results (giving Republican, American Independent, and Libertarian party candidates nearly 40% of the vote, and Democrat and other leftist party candidates nearly 60%):

If mostly-conservative Republicans Bianco and Hilton split 40% of the vote, and six Democrats split nearly 60%, the top two voter-getters will be Bianco and Hilton, guaranteeing a Republican governor.

Here’s this hypothetical scenario calculated by SaveCalifornia.com:

21% Steve Hilton (R)
19% Chad Bianco (R)
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11% Xavier Becerra (D)
10% Katie Porter (D)
9% Tom Steyer (D)
8% Tony Thurmond (D)
8% Betty Yee (D)
5% Antonio Villaraigosa (D)
4% Eric Swalwell (D)
2% Ian Calderon (D)
3% other

(Former Democrat Party candidates Eleni Kounalakis and Toni Atkins have dropped out)

So if you’re a conservative, don’t fight over Bianco and Hilton — yet. Because a conservative Republican victory is only ensured if both men win California’s June 2, 2026 primary election.

“Moreover you shall select from all the people able men, such as fear God, men of truth, hating covetousness; and place such over them to be rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens.”
The Bible, Jethro’s advice to Moses in Exodus 18:21