Vance Ulrich

@vanceulrich.bsky.social

California Politico 🏳️‍🌈

Under the newly adopted CA House map, Prop 50 passed by at least 10% in every SoCal district with an incumbent Democrat. Even in CA40 which is intended as a Republican vote sink, Prop 50 only failed by 5%. A very tough map for the CA GOP in 2026.

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We’re officially voting on Nov. 4th on whether to fight back against Texas and stop the GOP from rigging 2026! Tell your friends and neighbors, donate what you can, make phone calls — we gotta put everything into voting YES on Prop 50!! 🐻🐻 t.co/DCuWkna9ku

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Newly registered CA voters in June: Overall: 47% Dem, 23% Rep, 31% Indy (D+24) Latinos: 51% Dem, 19% Rep, 30% Indy (D+32) CA GOP had actually been making inroads with registration last year or so, but pendulum seems to be swinging back. All data is from Political Data Inc.

California #AD63 (Trump+13) special election results: Chris Shoults (D)- 44.6% Natasha Johnson (R)- 44.1% Vincent Romo (R)- 9.8% Zach Consalvo (Libertarian)- 1.5% No candidate broke 50%, so this is going to an August runoff between Shoults and Johnson

Another great damn day for OC Democrats!! Huntington Beach’s voters have repealed a book banning and public library privatization plan with a huge margin. This is a notoriously right wing CA city, so huge win.

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Great news for OC Dems! Nancy Pelosi is investing millions to beat the last OC Rep, Young Kim. In 2024, the party spent almost nothing against her, so this is a big change. Also, Pelosi’s spending against Ken Calvert in RivCo and David Valadao in the Central Valley.

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Democrat Randy Villegas in running against Republican incumbent David Valadao in the Central Valley’s CA22. The political registration in this D+12 district, so it’s ripe to flip blue and make Hakeem Jeffries House Speaker!

Another day, another CA poll showing Trump with historic levels of unpopularity! 68% of CA voters disapprove of him — he’s already more unpopular than this point in 2017. 2026 should be fun…

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Great news yesterday — Democrat Betty Martinez Franco won a council seat on the Irvine City council yesterday which gave Democrats a 4-3 majority! She was outspent 10-1 and still beat corporate interests — amazing! www.ocregister.com/2025/04/16/s...

Special election results: Betty Martinez Franco set to become Irvine’s newest councilmember

Challenger Anthony Kuo said in a statement that he reached out Tuesday night to congratulate Martinez Franco.

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CA Democrats have taken control of the Riverside County Board, joining Los Angeles, Orange, and San Diego. Every cycle, another county flips blue downballot! It's not long ago that there were almost zero downballot Dems in Socal (outside of LA)...

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