President-elect Donald Trump received criticism for holding a campaign rally in the long deep-blue state of California, but this week’s election results continue to show there is a "right-shift" to Trump and Republicans in the state.
Trump outperformed his 2016 and 2020 vote in the state and progressive Democrats lost in the deepest of blue areas of San Francisco (mayor) and Los Angeles (LA County district attorney). There has been nearly an 8-point move in the Trump era.
The shift in California is now apparent, even if it is marginal, according to University College London’s Thomas Gift to Newsweek.
California’s right shift is the result of years of Democratic governance that have been dominated by structural indebtedness, high taxes, burdensome regulations and an exorbitant cost of living," Gift said.
"The uptick in Republican voting doesn’t even capture the great exodus of many disillusioned Republicans who’ve fled California for states like Texas, Arizona, Nevada, and Florida."
California still struggles to get its votes counted within days, if not weeks, because of mass mail-in balloting under Democrat rule, but Trump has pulled 39% support in the state with just 72% of the vote reported almost one week into the count. Presidential election loser but declared California winner Vice President Kamala Harris has 58% support.
That is a near 5-point move right after Trump pulled 34.3 support in the record-setting COVID, antifa, Black Lives Matter, and George Floyd election of 2020. He won 31.5% of the vote in 2016.
Trump resoundingly won the election with 312 Electoral College votes and nearly a 4 million-vote edge in the popular vote that has eluded Republicans for two decades, according to the latest Newsmax projections.
Two of Democrats’ long-held strangleholds of San Francisco and Los Angeles even showed burgeoning Democrat weakness in the state.
Independent candidate Nathan Hochman, a former Republican, defeated progressive Democrat Los Angeles Country District Attorney George Gascón, who took office in that 2020 social justice election promising criminal-justice reform.
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