Elections

Bill Essayli says his candidacy “destroys the Democrat Party’s narrative.” That’s not because of his policy positions, though his campaign against Riverside Democratic Assemblywoman Sabrina Cervantes is built around his opposition to the recent increase in California’s gas tax. It’s also not because he’s 32, though the state’s Grand Old Party, which has assembled in […]

Tim Donnelly is at the California Republican Party convention that opened today in San Diego, but he won’t be staying long. Tomorrow morning the arch-conservative candidate for Congress will be heading to the U.S.-Mexico border to “reinstate the Minutemen,” he said. In the mid-2000’s,the “Minutemen Project” was a movement of armed vigilantes whose aim was […]

With pithy descriptions by their names on the ballot, candidates can tell voters a little more about themselves.

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The candidate for California governor sees a path through the Central Valley to the November ballot.

With the June primary approaching, there is a fight underway for the identity of the California Republican Party.

As the leading Republican candidate for governor, John Cox offers big ideas for reform—bold and seemingly far-fetched in California’s current political climate.

Democrat Antonio Villaraigosa apparently believes his path to the governor's office runs through the San Joaquin Valley.

It’s hard to run as the change agent in the California governor’s race when you’re the state’s second-ranking elected leader. But Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom is giving it his best shot. Since launching his bid for governor in early 2015 (arguably, since he was first elected to the position of lieutenant governor five years earlier), […]