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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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and does not support or oppose candidates for public office.

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)

ALERT: Demand Republicans oppose the sexual indoctrination of kindergarteners

Wednesday, March 19, 2025, 5:21 pm | Randy Thomasson

If Republican state legislators were trustworthy protectors, it wouldn’t be like this.

So after two Republicans foolishly voted yes in committee for the major sexual indoctrination bill AB 86, SaveCalifornia.com sprang into action.

The good news is one of them, freshman Leticia Castillo of western Riverside County, was “educated” by numerous phone calls from our active SaveCalifornia.com followers on March 15-17.

So on March 18, Castillo announced she will oppose AB 86 and ask other Republicans to oppose it too.

Please leave Leticia Castillo a brief message at 916-319-2058, saying, “I’m glad the assemblywoman has announced her opposition to the major sexual indoctrination bill, AB 86. I look forward to her speaking on the floor and getting other Republicans to speak too!”

TAKE QUICK ACTION

So far, only 1 of 20 Republican assemblymembers have announced opposition to AB 86. You can help us get 20 of 20!

If your own California state assemblymember is a Republican, please also call him or her, saying, “Oppose AB 86, which pushes more sexual indoctrination on children as young as kindergarten. In the bill, the ‘health curriculum framework’ adopted in 2019 by the State Board of Education is the massive sexual indoctrination of AB 329. Connect the dots and announce your opposition to this deceptive, anti-family bill!”

Find your own California state assemblymember here. If you don’t have a Republican assemblymember, please call the 19 other Republican assemblymembers anonymously after business hours, in this priority order of risky liberal to morally conservative:

Josh Hoover of Folsom 916-319-2007 (he already voted yes on AB 86 in committee)
Greg Wallis of Rancho Mirage 916-319-2047
Juan Alanis of Modesto 916-319-2022
Carl DeMaio of San Diego 916-319-2075
Laurie Davies of Laguna Niguel 916-319-2074
Phillip Chen of Brea 916-319-2059
Diane Dixon of Newport Beach 916-319-2072
Heath Flora of Ripon 916-319-2009
Bill Essayli of Corona 916-319-2063
Tom Lackey of Palmdale 916-319-2034
Tri Ta of Westminster 916-319-2070
Stan Ellis of Bakersfield 916-319-2032
David Tangipa of Fresno 916-319-2008
Alexandra Macedo of Visalia 916-319-2033
Heather Hadwick of Redding 916-319-2001
Joe Patterson of Rocklin 916-319-2005
Kate Sanchez of Rancho Santa Margarita 916-319-2071
James Gallagher of Yuba City 916-319-2003
Jeff Gonzalez of Coachella 916-319-2036

Please make anonymous calls between 7pm and 8am, and on weekends, so that your voicemail will not be “trashed.” (State legislators routinely only care about messages from their own constituents; therefore, calls from many people AFTER business hours who do not ID themselves cannot be discarded). A flood of calls matter!

Connect the dots on the awful AB 86:

As written, AB 86 reads: “…the state board shall adopt instructional materials 

for health education for kindergarten and grades 1 to 8, inclusive, pursuant to the requirements of this article and in alignment with the health curriculum framework adopted by the state board in 2019.”

What is the “health curriculum framework adopted by the state board in 2019”? 

It includes the “Healthy Youth Act” (AB 329 from 2015), teaching there are at least 7 “genders”!

What is the “Healthy Youth Act” 

AB 329 is a key part of the 2019 frameworks, and the centerpiece of AB 86’s requirement for “sexual health” instruction materials. See more at our School Indoctrination page

AB 329 teaches children as young as 5th grade that any consensual sexual behavior is “safe” as long as you “protect” yourself with a condom, and teaches children that homosexuality, bisexuality, and transsexuality are “normal.” 

AB 329 requires children to learn about various sexual practices, such as:

Masturbation, oral sex, teen fornication, homosexuality, bisexuality, transsexuality, and unlimited “genders,” as well as promoting abortion (baby-killing). 

Under the guise of “health” education, AB 329, dubbed the “California Healthy Youth Act,” is mandatory for grades 7-12 and optional for younger grades.

What would this year’s AB 86 do?

It would require “the SBE* to adopt instructional materials for health education for kindergarten through grade 8 … in alignment with the health curriculum framework adopted by the SBE in 2019.”

Using AB 86 to mandate instructional materials based on the 2019 frameworks, which fully embraced AB 329, would satisfy the anti-parent “LGBTQIA+” groups, who want books, videos, and other material pushed upon elementary school districts and teachers to make them to sexually indoctrinate impressionable little children all the more.

* State Board of Education

Please take action and ask your friends to do the same!

A general Dissolution of Principles & Manners will more surely overthrow the Liberties of America than the whole Force of the Common Enemy. While the People are virtuous they cannot be subdued; but when once they lose their Virtue they will be ready to surrender their Liberties to the first external or internal Invader.
U.S. Founding Father Samuel Adams in 1779