Elections

Campus organizers across California are gearing up for the state’s early primary in March, hoping for a repeat of the 2018 elections, when student voter turnout nationwide more than doubled. They’re trying creative tactics to get their peers registered and to the polls, helped along by two new California laws.

As Republican Party popularity plummets in California, two moderate legislators —Chad Mayes and Tyler Diep — take opposite tacks to try to keep their jobs. Politicos will be watching.

After a promising start, California’s junior senator is out of the running. Where will her voters, backers and endorsers go — and what does this all say about the California primary?

In the lead opinion, California Chief Justice Tani Cantil-Sakauye says the state constitution makes clear "it is the voters who must decide" whether a presidential candidate's refusal to publicly share tax returns will have consequences at the ballot box. Many constitutional law experts, former Democratic Gov. Jerry Brown and the California Republican Party are now all officially entitled to say, "I told you so."

Updated Nov. 19, 2019 California voters have resoundingly approved tens of billions of dollars in state school construction bonds over the last two decades. But a new survey suggests that voters have yet to similarly warm up to the latest and heftiest proposal to come before them: a $15 billion state bond for public schools, […]

Here's a run down of who did (and didn't) win the party's official backing

A televised forum in Long Beach hosted by Univision and the California Democratic Party featured 8 presidential candidates. Here's what they had to say.

Updated: November 15, 2019. Like Comic-Con for progressive political nerds and consultants, the California Democratic Party’s biannual convention — one of the year’s largest gathering of like-minded partisans — will kick off in Long Beach this weekend with an estimated 5,000 attendees.  Some will be coming to snap selfies with presidential candidates, although for all […]

California was the first state to explicitly make nonconsensual pornography illegal. Even so, legal experts say Hill would have a tough case.

These seven interactive maps and charts reveal surprising clues to how Kamala Harris, Donald Trump and the rest fare in the race for California's campaign cash