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Can a Republican win the California governor’s race?

Tuesday, April 29, 2025, 8:43 pm | Randy Thomasson

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In light of California’s “jungle primary,” is splitting the votes of conservatives good or bad, and what are the chances of a mostly-conservative Republican being on the November 2026 ballot or being elected governor?

To answer, mostly-conservative Republican Steve Hilton’s entrance into the 2026 California governor’s race has immediately split the conservative vote between him and mostly-conservative Republican Chad Bianco.

If Hilton had not declared his candidacy, Bianco would have been virtually assured of being the highest or second-highest vote-getter in the primary.

Still, in the hypothetical scenarios I’ve been crunching, it’s plausible that a Republican could be one of “the top two” in the primary election, and if Kamala Harris doesn’t jump in, there’s even a path for either Bianco and Hilton to become governor.

The 2026 primary election scenarios below divide up 59% of the vote between the Democrat Party candidates and 38% of the vote between the Republicans. This is based on California’s 2024 presidential election results, and are rounded up or rounded down to match.

Here are the “bigger” declared candidates, so far, in alphabetical order who want to replace Democrat Governor Gavin Newsom, who’s termed out:

Democrats:
Toni Atkins, former State Senate leader, former State Assembly leader
Xavier Becerra, former U.S. congressman, former State Attorney General, and former U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services
Eleni Kounalakis, current Lieutenant Governor
Katie Porter, former U.S. congresswoman
Tony Thurmond, former state assemblyman and current State Superintendent of Public Instruction
Antonio Villaraigosa, former state assemblyman, former mayor of Los Angeles
Betty Yee, current State Controller

Republicans:
Chad Bianco, current sheriff of Riverside County
Steve Hilton, media voice, former tech start-up founder, former U.K. government advisor

SCENARIO 1: Two Democrats win “the top two” slots of the June 2026 primary election (two really work hard at the expense of the other Dems), so both Democrats advance to the November election, and a Democrat will again become governor:

22% Becerra
21% Porter

19% Bianco
18% Hilton
4% Villaraigosa
4% Thurmond
3% Yee
3% Kounalakis
3% Atkins
3% other

SCENARIO 2: 1 Democrat + 1 Republican win “the top two” (the Democrat Party machine pushes 1 Democrat hard at the expense of the others):

25% Becerra
20% Bianco

18% Hilton
9% Porter
7% Thurmond
6% Yee
5% Kounalakis
4% Villaraigosa
3% Atkins
3% other

SCENARIO 3: 1 Democrat + 1 Republican win “the top two.” Here, the biggest Democrat, Kamala Harris, enters the race and “sucks all the oxygen out” of the other Democrats.

If Harris enters the race, expect up to 5 Democrats to drop out (Atkins, Kounalakis, Porter, Thurmond, and Yee). Also expect Harris to be puffed and promoted by California’s New Communist machinery. This scenario means a Republican will be on the November ballot.

39% Harris
20% Hilton

18% Bianco
12% Becerra
8% Villaraigosa
3% other

SCENARIO 4: Two Republicans win “the top two” (if Big Democrat Kamala Harris doesn’t jump in, Democrats might simply split into 7 portions that are smaller than the 2 Republican portions), meaning there will be a Republican governor:

20% Hilton
18% Bianco

13% Becerra
12% Porter
8% Thurmond
8% Yee
7% Kounalakis
6% Villaraigosa
5% Atkins
3% other

I’ve provided these 4 scenarios to give you hope. In 3 of the 4, a Republican (either Bianco or Hilton, both mostly-conservatives) advances to the general election. Let this energize you to support the candidate who best represents your values!

“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.”
Advice of Moses’ father-in-law Jethro in Exodus 18:21

Proof your money is being wasted by Democrat Party politicians

Sunday, April 13, 2025, 5:47 pm | Randy Thomasson

As the April 15 tax return deadline approaches, be glad that DOGE is exposing waste and fraud in California! This is much-needed proof that the ruling Democrat Party politicians led by Newsom & Co. are OK with fraud.

This latest discovery about the waste and fraud within Newsom’s EDD (Employment Development Department) should convince every reasonable Californian to:

1) Never again think government needs more of your money
2) Always vote NO on tax increases, tax extensions, and bonds (all deceptive money grabs by wasteful state and local governments)

As Fox News first reported on 4/11/25:

After finding $382 million in fraudulent unemployment payments since 2020, the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) identified California, New York and Massachusetts as the primary culprits. 

The three Democrat-led states accounted for $305 million in improper claim payments, DOGE said Thursday.

The group added that California also accounted for 68% of the benefits that were dispensed under former President Joe Biden to parolees identified by federal authorities as being on the government’s terrorist watchlist, or who had criminal records.

California, New York and Massachusetts all have a Democratic trifecta — meaning Democrats control the state House, Senate and the governor’s office. They also have a Democratic triplex, which includes party control of the Attorney General, Secretary of State and governorship.

The above new story was based on a DOGE post on X on 4/10/25

An initial survey of Unemployment Insurance claims since 2020 revealed the following:

– 24.5k people over 115 years old claimed $59M in benefits

– 28k people between 1 and 5 years old claimed $254M in benefits

– 9.7k people with birth dates over 15 years in the future claimed $69M in benefits

In one case, someone with a birthday in 2154 claimed $41k.

California, New York, and Massachusetts accounted for most of these improper claims, totaling $305M in unemployment benefits.

Additionally, California accounted for 68% of the unemployment benefits paid to parolees identified by CBP on the terrorist watchlist or with criminal records.

And like DOGE, SaveCalifornia.com has been working here in 2025 to expose the THEFT committed by Democrat Party politicians and their allies (union bosses, establishment bureaucrats, and RINOs).

Thank you for your support and for sharing our information with more people who need to know! Below are some of SaveCalifornia.com’s popular social media posts (click the images to see the full posts):

“A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship. The average age of the world’s greatest civilizations has been 200 years. These nations have progressed through this sequence: From bondage to spiritual faith; From spiritual faith to great courage; From courage to liberty; From liberty to abundance; From abundance to selfishness; From selfishness to apathy; From apathy to dependence; From dependence back into bondage.”
Attributed to Scottish judge/professor/historian Alexander Fraser Tytler (1747-1813)

Fact-checking Gavin Newsom

Saturday, March 8, 2025, 10:51 am | Randy Thomasson

Is Gavin Newsom lying — again? Probably, maybe, and definitely.

1. CLAIM: On March 1, he declared he was fast-tracking “forest management” to prevent wildfires.

FACT: But Newsom has made window-dressing announcements like this before, such as touting that he “took similar action in March 2019 to expedite forest management projects.” But as liberal Capitol Public Radio reported in 2021: “Overall, California’s response has faltered under Newsom. After an initial jump during his first year in office, data obtained by CapRadio and NPR’s California Newsroom show Cal Fire’s fuel reduction output dropped by half in 2020, to levels below Gov. Jerry Brown’s final year in office. At the same time, Newsom slashed roughly $150 million from Cal Fire’s wildfire prevention budget.”

Does California have a governor or not? If any more wildfires incinerate neighborhoods or communities, know this — it’s Newsom’s fault.

2. CLAIM: On March 3, Newsom ordered state employees to be in the office for “a default minimum of four in-person days per work week.”

FACT: Unfortunately, this order isn’t effective until the summer. Yet Newsom’s own supporters are already crying foul. The largest state employee union (SEIU Local 1000) has filed an “unfair practice charge” with the state’s Public Employment Relations Board. Another government union, the California Association of State Attorney and Administrative Law Judges, also opposes “returning to the office.” If Newsom doesn’t hold union bosses and bureaucrats accountable, his words were mere talk (remember he’s mocked DOGE). We’ll find out July 1.

3. CLAIM: On March 6, Gavin Newsom said it’s “deeply unfair” for “trans” athletes to be in girls’ and women’s sports. This was during a discussion with moral conservative Charlie Kirk on Newsom’s new “This is Gavin Newsom” podcast.

FACT: Yet, at the same time, Newsom didn’t commit to doing anything to stop biological boys from invading girls’ sports. As governor, Newsom has signed many bills to promote transsexuality in classrooms, school restrooms, teacher training, foster homes, libraries, department stores, hospitals, insurance policies, courts, and in other states (Children, come to California for your secret, taxpayer-funded “sex change”). Newsom is pro-”trans” all the way. See his bill signings in 2021, 2022, 2023, and 2024.

My little children, let us not love in word
or in tongue, but in deed and in truth.
The Bible, 1 John 3:18

But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves.
The Bible, James 1:22