California continues to be counting votes (1.5 million but to go), however some noteworthy traits have gotten clearer:
Latino voters: Though the extent continues to be unsure, polls present that help for President-elect Donald Trump amongst Latinos has grown nationwide. In California, a CalMatters evaluation discovered {that a} bigger share of votes in at the very least 9 of the state’s 12 Latino-majority counties went to Trump this 12 months in comparison with 2020.
As CalMatters politics reporter Yue Stella Yu explains, the shift by Latino voters could have quite a bit to do with financial issues. Mike Madrid, a longtime GOP guide, mentioned that Democrats have been slowly shedding Latino help since 2012, and they need to take into account the election a “five-alarm fire.”
However some specialists and California Democrats don’t view Trump’s victory as a sweeping rebuke of the celebration. In among the state’s congressional toss-up races, for instance, Democratic candidates seem like outperforming Vice President Kamala Harris. Reasonably than voting for Republicans, they are saying, voters simply wished to oust incumbents.
“What you want to call a rightward shift,” mentioned Democrat Adam Grey, who’s in a decent race for California’s thirteenth Congressional District, “I would call a rejection of more of the same.”
Learn extra about California’s Latino voters in Stella’s story.
Extra voters: Whereas Harris misplaced to Trump overwhelmingly within the Electoral Faculty, she has gained extra votes in her dwelling state (8.4 million as of Thursday) than Barack Obama did in 2008 when he gained the presidency.
That’s largely a end result, nonetheless, of extra registered voters in California: 22.6 million this 12 months, in comparison with 17.3 million in 2008. The state has made it simpler to register and to vote lately; 84% of all eligible voters are registered, up from 75% in 2008.
Harris is at 59% of the vote statewide to this point, in comparison with 61% for Obama in 2008 towards Republican John McCain. Within the whole variety of votes, she can be working barely forward of Democratic Rep. Adam Schiff, who has gained the U.S. Senate race. However that’s due to those that voted for president, however skipped the U.S. Senate race.
Congressional delegation: California went into the election with 40 Democrats and 12 Republicans within the U.S. Home and two Democrats within the Senate. After the thousands and thousands of {dollars} spent and all of the campaigning and advertisements, the celebration break up may very well be nearly similar. With two Home races nonetheless undecIded however the Republicans main narr0wly, there may very well be as many as 11 Republicans representing the state within the Home as a part of the slim GOP majority. California’s two Democrats within the U.S. Senate shall be within the minority.
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