The GOP has set its sights on an amazing goal that most of us would have thought was impossible a couple of years ago. What if they could manage to flip California from its current Democrat supermajority to a majority Republican state in the next two years?
That may sound farfetched to anyone who regularly watches the news and sees the insanity that the state’s one-party rule unleashes on its citizens on a daily basis. But if there’s one thing we should have all learned after the 2024 election, it’s that anything is possible.
California lost its way a long time ago. If it was a foreign country, you’d call it a failed state. The last Republican presidential candidate to win the state’s electoral votes was George HW Bush in 1988. Democrats have won every presidential election since 1992 and they’ve had a lock on the governor’s office and both houses of the state legislature for years.
The state legislature passes lunatic bills that can only be explained by a deep-seated hatred of the voters. They legalized gay pedophilia a few years ago as long as the victim is over 14. Their minimum wage policies have driven the price of a Subway sandwich up to $21. I mean… freakin’ Subway! Even though gas prices have fallen nationally since President Trump has been back in office, prices have gone UP in California because of new taxes to pay for benefits for illegal aliens.
Millions of people have fled California and moved to Texas, Florida, Arizona, Nevada or other states back in the real America. So, is it even possible to turn things around in this dump?
Governor Gavin “Hair Gel Hitler” Newsom is finally leaving office in 2026, which leaves that office an open seat. Half the state Senate is up for reelection along with every seat in the state Assembly. Not only is it possible to break the Democrats’ stronghold on the state—it actually feels doable for the first time in many years.
President Trump only earned 4.4 million votes in California back in 2016, during his run against Hillary Clinton. In 2024, he topped more than 6 million votes. This 1.6-million vote increase happened despite a massive exodus of Republican voters in the intervening years.
Statewide, Republicans increased their vote share in California by about 12% in 2024 compared to the 2020 election. The GOP has also managed to register 1 million new Republican voters during the past six years that Gavin Newsom has been completely wrecking the state.
After the wildfires wiped out entire towns in Los Angeles County in January, many of the loyal Democrat voters who lost their homes are now experiencing the hellish journey through California’s liberal permitting policy. Many of them could have afforded to start rebuilding their homes by now. They can’t even get started, however, because they’re trying to wade through the bureaucratic nightmare of red tape and paperwork that corrupt city and state officials have spent years implementing.
Those homeowners are now realizing that the “caring” politicians they’ve been voting for over the past three decades don’t actually care about them at all. One recent hilarious poll asked California voters to describe the Democrat Party in a single word.
The top choices were “weak,” “toothless,” “ineffectual,” “lost,” and “floundering.” I’m just sad that “retarded” was not an available option.
One of President Trump’s staunchest (and only) supporters in Hollywood has turned out to be Mel Gibson. He’s been one of the most vocal critics of Gavin Newsom since his house burned down in January, and many Californians now see him as a voice of reason amid the sea of weak and ineffectual GOP politicians. Gibson has won the first two early straw polls asking who California Republicans would like to see run for governor in 2026.
Nicole Shanahan, the amazing matriarch of the MAHA movement, has announced that she’s not running for California governor, but that could change over the next year. Both Gibson and Shanahan have a good shot at winning the race.
Meanwhile, the GOP would have to flip four out of twenty state Senate seats next year, or seven Assembly seats, to finally break the Democrats’ supermajority.
Many people have dismissed California as a lost cause but that’s not the case on the ground here. People are finally seeing through the years of lies and misery that Democrat Party rule has caused.
President Trump has said that 12 months from now, Americans will feel like they’re living in a different country. How true would that be if he managed to help Republicans take back control of California?