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‘Xavier Becerra’s Chickens Coming Home to Roost:
Accused of Hiding Fauci’s COVID-era Diary and Cellphone’
Will the FBI be showing up with warrants ? ? ? ?
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Xavier Becerra was in charge of Health and Human Services during all of biden
administration and there could be as many as 230,000 kids still missing.
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How hard would it have been to check ups on kids, making sure they’re SAFE
and not being exploited ? ?
How many tender age children became victims of human traffickers ? ? ?
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“There was about 60 kids who were sent to one address.
When we looked at that address, it was a container, a steel container
in the middle of a parking lot.” RFK
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If he can’t be trusted to make sure kids are safe,
can he be trusted as governor of California
Democrats don’t care how incompetent he is. They don’t care how much he lies or how corrupt he might be. The only thing that matters is that he is a democrat. No logic or thinking involved. Just a mindless vote for whoever is the democrat. No thought of what is best for our state.
Original G,
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None of that is likely to matter in the upcoming 2026 California gubernatorial general election. California voters simply won’t elect a Republican to a statewide office. The 2026 California primary election results showed us that the general election is over and that Xavier Becerra will be our next governor. It’s unfortunate, because better Democratic Party candidates were in the primary race.
Steve Hilton is an energetic campaigner and seems to be well funded. You might be surprised at the turnout for this mid term election and the results may even be more surprising. Xavier Becerra isn’t too interested in an aggressive campaign. The debates will be very telling.
Kimsee,
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I voted for Steve Hilton in the primary, but unfortunately, this election is over!!! It’s going to be Governor Xavier Becerra!!!
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The turnout for the 2026 midterm primary election already had the highest turnout for a midterm primary election since 1998. What happened? The Republicans crashed and burned!!! The 13 Republican candidates captured 36% of the vote, while the 24 Democrat candidates captured 62% of the vote.
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The following lists the total percentages won by all Republican candidates in the last 8 primary elections and the percentage won by the Republican nominee in the last 7 general elections.
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2026 Primary – 35.97%
Candidate: Steve Hilton
2026 General – 00.00%
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2022 Primary – 34.30%
Candidate: Bryan Dahle
2022 General – 40.82%
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2018 Primary – 36.2%
Candidate: John Cox
2018 General – 38.05%
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2014 Primary – 39.93%
Candidate: Neel Kashkari
2014 General – 40.03%
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2010 Primary – 48.94%
Candidate: Meg Whitman
2010 General – 40.88%
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2006 Primary – 42.57%
Candidate: Arnold Schwarzenegger
2006 General – 55.88%
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2002 Primary – 49.99%
Candidate: Bill Simon
2002 General – 42.40%
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1998 Primary – 36.14%
Candidate: Dan Lungren
1998 General – 38.38%
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Do you see the pattern? In the last 8 primary elections, all of the Republican candidates received a total of 34% – 50% of the vote, but in 6 of the last 7 general elections the Republican nominee has received between 38% – 43% of the vote, the exception being 2006, when Governor Schwarzenegger won reelection with 56% of the vote.
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This is California, where former Secretary Xavier Becerra doesn’t need to run an aggressive campaign, unlike Steve Hilton.
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The debates won’t “be very telling” at all, as they won’t and don’t matter!!! This election is over!!!
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Don’t fool yourself, we were told that Steve Hilton and Riverside County Sheriff-Coroner Chad Bianco were going to be the two candidates for Governor of California in the general election. It wasn’t even close and Steve Hilton was less than 170,000 votes away from not making it into the general election. We were told that Spencer Pratt was going to be one of the two candidates for Mayor of Los Angeles in the general election, again, it wasn’t even close. It didn’t happen!!! California voters made it very clear with their primary votes, they don’t want any Republican near statewide elected office in 2026. It’s over!!!
Neel Kashkari would have been a great California Governor.
Seeing his potential, a frightened democrat party and obama administration
appointed him President of the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis in 2015.
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high speed rail
Original G,
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Neel Kashkari was also a Bush-Cheney Administration holdover early in the Obama-Biden Administration, simultaneously holding two Assistant Secretary of the Treasury positions in both administrations and overseeing TARP.
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If the Democratic Party and the Obama-Biden Administration appointed Neel Kashkari to the position of President and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis because they “saw his potential” and were “frightened,” then Neel Kashkari should’ve been smart enough to turn down the appointment, as nobody forced him to accept the position.
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California voters disagreed with you, as they chose to reelect Governor Edmund Gerald “Jerry” Brown to a 4th term as Governor of California by 19.94% over Neel Kashkari.
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I don’t believe any candidate for Governor of California has the potential to be a “great governor,” if they were to win, whether they’re a Democrat or a Republican, they only have the potential to be better or worse than the last governor. The State of California has become too large and fragmented to be successfully governed and likely needs to be broken up into multiple states.
So California is in for a very bleak and blase future because general public did not seem to learn that communism did not work elsewhere in history.
Captain Bebops,
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I don’t believe the vast majority of California voters are voting overwhelmingly for Democrats based on anything having to do with socialism and/or communism, as much as it has to do with the fact that the vast majority of California voters just not trusting the Republicans running for statewide office, election cycle after election cycle. We can all see how California has been and is being governed and the list of problems that plague this state year after year, yet, the majority of California voters are just fine with the way things are being run because they view the Republicans as being worse than the Democrats.
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These are the closest statewide election results between a Democrat and a Republican going back to the general election of 1998, all other elections fall into landslide territory with a victory greater than 5%, in order of line of succession to the governorship:
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2006 Lieutenant Governor race where Democrat Insurance Commissioner John Garamendi defeated Republican State Senator Tom McClintock by 4.03% or 343,726 votes.
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2002 Secretary of State race where State Assemblyman Kevin Shelley defeated State Assemblyman Keith Olberg by 3.95% or 286,294 votes.
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2006 Secretary of State race where Democrat State Senator Debra Bowen defeated appointed Republican Secretary of State Bruce McPherson by 3.1% or 260,002 votes.
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2010 Attorney General race where San Francisco County District Attorney Kamala Harris defeated Los Angeles County District Attorney Steve Cooley by 0.77% or 74,157 votes.
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2002 State Controller race where Democrat businessman Steve Westly defeated Republican Senator Tom McClintock by 0.23% or 16,811 votes.
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2002 Insurance Commissioner race where former Democrat Deputy Secretary of the Interior John Garamendi defeated Republican Corporations Commissioner Gary Mendoza by 4.84% or 348,694 votes.
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The elections of 2006 were really the last time Republicans had a chance to win a statewide election with Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger winning a reelection landslide by double-digits, Republican businessman Steve Poizner winning the race for Insurance Commissioner in a double-digit landslide, and the races for Lieutenant Governor and Secretary of State being close losses.
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It’s the Republican brand in California that’s viewed as toxic by voters.
This is so depressing.
If you really want to know, trust the random man or woman on the street interviews, see if the voters even know who is running for office.
Try printing the ballots without an R or a D behind candidates names and see what kind of hell that causes!
Dr. Jellyfinger,
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I’ve posted here for 15 years that ballots shouldn’t state the political party or occupation of the candidates. Those changes would hopefully cause voters to make the effort to learn something about who they’re voting for.
Yes TBK…. I stole the idea from you.
Generalissimo Becerra? 😄
Anyone else find it strange, Trump is still President, mid term elections are weeks away,
No Dead black FELON has been raised to Martyrdom by democrats to justify nationwide
Riots, Arson and Looting . . . . . given 24 hour news coverage by liberal media.
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Could USAID being defunded,
ActBlue being under investigation,
and SPC (southern poverty law center) being indicted, be the cause ? ? ? ? ? ?
probably won’t start until very late September/early October, but it will hit. The “stories” are probably being concocted now, with script writers fine tuning.
Trump is doing the dirty work of the Deep State. Why replace him?
The billions defunded from USAID were spent on Isreal’s war against Iran. All while Trump made over a billion in stocks and crypto via manipulation and insider trading. The dude turned out to be the biggest scammer of all.
Yoyo, pretty much everything you said was BS. He did make almost $1.5 billion in crypto, but not through insider trading. You could say manipulation, in that an organization created the Trump crypto, using his likeness, etc., and gifted him (as they typically do with celebrity endorsements) the crypto. How much was reduced from USAID, defunded as you say? Take a look.
Now, Eric and Don Jr., some of their dealings do not sit well with me, as I am not keen on them using their father’s position to enrich themselves. Some of the dealings do appear sketchy, not illegal, but they do not sit right with me (for whatever that is worth, like even one person in DC gives a flying rip what I think). I didn’t like it when biden did it, either.
You’re sarcastically agreeing with me or is this serious? 😆
Either way, consider: You’re 80 years old, filthy rich and have the most important job in the country. But instead of serving the public, you cheat and scheme to enrich yourself and family even more. What does that tell you about Trump’s confidence that he left the country better than he found it? Would you need to squeeze every nickel out of your leveraged status if you were really making the country a more fair and equitable place?
The best way to deal with the demented loonies is to let them rage on, and ignore it.
I like to be “cautiously informed.” When such charges as made by yoyo are presented in front of me, I want to understand where they are coming from, to see if there is anything behind the accusations. In this case, as is typical, he just spewed out talking points charged by someone (or maybe he just drew those lines in his head). Once in a while, the dullards on the left make charges that actually are valid (a rarity, to be sure). A clue should be that he asked if I was serious or sarcastic, when the first line was everything he said was BS. Not sure how to assume that was sarcasm. I will now follow your suggestion and “ignore it,” just not worth my time.
Stop it, yoyohop. After what the last administration did to the American people by bringing candidate “nobody initially wanted” pedo biden back from the dead, hiding him in a basement, making him president, and then having his wife and who knows who else run things. That is the biggest scam of all time and it’s not even close.
We just lost a war with Iran and you’re still blathering about Biden. Catch a ride on clue bus, reality is leaving you behind.
@yoyohop
Three things:
(1) What’s this “we” sh!t, white man?
(2) You didn’t use the word “blathering” correctly.
(3) Instead of a clue bus, I’ll take the Love Train by The O’Jays.
The irony of calling Biden a pedo
If the shower fits
@ Concord Resident
According to that pedo’s daughter, he had inappropriate relations with her in the shower. He’s not just a pedo, he’s an incestuous one at that. She WROTE IT DOWN. There is nothing ironic about it.
It wasn’t fondling, it was scrubbing… lots of scrubbing.
Joe said so!
We know how this works
Biden has dementia, so the left says Trump is too old
Biden took bribes and made insider trades, so the left calls Trump corrupt
Biden showered with his teenage daughter, so the left calls Trump pedo
It’s all democrat projection
How’s the release of the Epstein files coming along?
Concord Resident,
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The information that the public really wants to see is in the classified Epstein Files, not the unrealeased declassified Epstein Files.
@concord Resident
Now it’s Trumps fault that Biden never released the Epstein files.
That’s how we know that Trump was never on the Lolita Express or Epstein’s Island.
We also know that Epstein hated Trump after he was kicked out of Mar-A-Lago, and looked for ways to find any dirt on Trump, but he never did.
But keep projecting!
Should have asked Biden that six years ago.
Original G,
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It’s not at all odd that President Trump is still in office. He’s not going anywhere!!! Even if Democrats get control of one or both Houses of Congress as a result of the midterm elections, he may get impeached once or twice, but he won’t be convicted, and will remain in office.
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I don’t believe USAID being moved to the State Department and grants being canceled, ActBlue being investigated by Congress, and the Southern Poverty Law Center being indicted by the Justice Department have anything to do with President Trump remaining in office. The issues with USAID are being fought out in the courts and the Congressional and Justice Department investigations into ActBlue and the SPLC should actually be helping them or similar organizations raise even more money.
“Trump is still President”, not my main point.
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USAID, my understanding is defunct and funding cut off.
Interesting negative articles on closure, then dig down on other articles authors
have written over the years. Review enough and pattern appears.
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‘ActBlue employees took the Fifth in House depositions 146 times
in probe on alleged donor fraud’. Is possible donations will drop
off greatly, for fear of possible donor investigations ? ?
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SPLC (southern poverty law center), stick a fork in it, it’s done.
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Guessing, blm and antofu, don’t show up for free ? ? ?
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Democrat donors were not happy giggles campaign blew thru $1.5 BILLION,
in just 107 days of her 2024 campaign, leaving party with a deficit.
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This campaign cycle ‘The DNC Put Up Its Headquarters as Collateral
to Obtain Its Massive Loan‘
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Considering democrat presidential candidate pool thus far, campaign
contributions to party could end up at historic lows.
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Did democrat controlled congress that passed bill creating DOE
(department of education) and jimmy THE WIMP signing bill into law, end up
lowering knowledge of voters to the point socialists and communists are gaining
elective office?
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How many democrat voters today can comprehend what
President Ronald Reagan said ?
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“Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction.
We didn’t pass it to our children in the bloodstream.
It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same.”
–Ronald Reagan
Original G,
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It’s my understanding that some functions and funding of what was USAID still exist and continue within the State Department. I also believe that lawsuits are still in the courts having to do with the way the agency was shut down, employees, contractors, and the cancelation of approved grants, although I haven’t paid a lot of attention to the cases.
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ActBlue and the SPLC may very well go the way of ACORN, but donations will likely shift to newer and other pro-Democrat groups.
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The loan taken against DNC headquarters was only for $15 million, I doubt that little bit is going to help them all that much.
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The pool of Democrats running or speculated to run for the 2028 nomination may not look like the best pool of candidates, but they’ll still be able to run a competitive campaign by the time 2028 rolls around.
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It’s been almost 50 years, so I don’t believe the creation of the stand alone Department of Education changed much of anything if its taken until now for socialist and communist candidates to gain traction in parts of the United States. “Education” already existed as a cabinet level Department since early in the first year of the Eisenhower Administration when the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare was created. Prior to that, “Education” existed as a federal government Agency, Bureau, and/or Office going back to early in the first year of the Grant Administration. The creation of the Department of Education and the Department of Health and Human Services was just a splitting of the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare.
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When I first saw your DOE reference, I was thinking of President Carter’s other DOE creation, the Department of Energy.
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I believe the rise in socialist and communist candidates has more to do with the fall of the Soviet Union and shipping so much of our manufacturing to China, so that we no longer have that constant reminder of communism in our minds everyday. The other factors are due to the failures of traditional Democrat and Republican candidates, and elected and appointed government officials.
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I believe most Democrat voters can easily comprehend what President Reagan said. I just think that they don’t believe what he said and/or they just don’t care what he said. As an example, look at all of the Democrats and Republicans who are pro-Axon cameras, pro-Flock cameras, and pro the Big-Government Surveillance State because of the perceived safety they’ve been promised by government, not actual safety delivered, despite Benjamin Franklin warning, “Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.” It’s the same thing!!! Republicans have shown us that they’re just as willing as Democrats to flush away everything that we have!!!
Becerra? I thought it was Bacaria………….
Bacteria.
You’ve got to be a certain age to fully appreciate this one
Original G,
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I haven’t seen Sally in a really long time.
Yep, took me awhile before I figured it out. Archie and Meathead came to mind.
She’s on a Netflix show with Ted Danson and a few other washed up actors – it’s called “Man on the Inside”
Check popcorn supply,
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“Lawyers for President Donald Trump are threatening to file a $5 billion defamation lawsuit
against a liberal think tank if it doesn’t retract a report claiming that the White House’s
deployment of National Guard troops has failed to lower crime rates in D.C. The group
is refusing to comply.”
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Should happen to liberal media MORE OFTEN.
Cue the kool aid kid
Have you had enough yet ? ? ? ?
Tired of and having to pay for the privilege of being a lab rat ? ? ?
As California stumbles forward trying to out “Green” the world.
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‘Highest Gas Prices, New Tire Restrictions: Democrats
Inflicting More Economic Pain on CA Residents‘
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‘California Creates A Black Market For Tires‘
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‘Steve Hilton Calls for Removal of Nancy Skinner and
Plans to Abolish California Energy Commission‘
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democrats running OUR state into the ground need a wake up call.
VOTE THEM OUT OF OFFICE at all levels of government.
California’s TIRE KING
Communist China is in a race with America, for development of data centers.
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Large number of democrat politicians, have come out against data centers,
using phrases substantially similar, planting fears while providing no proof.
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Don’t forget the liberal media,
‘American Media On China’s Payroll?
Disclosures Name Prominent US Journalists in CCP-Funded Exchange Trips’
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“…list of ‘journalists’ who were treated to CCP-funded trips to China—and more—allegedly
in exchange for favorable coverage of the country. The quid pro quo reportedly goes back
as far as 2009. “
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‘An MS Now reporter who criticized President Trump’s speech about Chinese influence
previously traveled to the country with the help of a Chinese Communist Party-linked
organization and failed to tell readers he was the guest of a CCP-linked outfit.’
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Being a skeptical reader is a good habit, as is taking time to search for facts on your
own.
Original G,
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The anti-data center movement is alive and well by Democrats and Republicans across America, it’s not limited to one side. Rural Republican areas of the country are just as anti-data center as Democrat areas. This is why the Department of Defense is getting into the data center game and why commercial data centers are going to be built on U.S. military bases. Several are already in the works.
‘X Uncovers a Massive Chinese Bot Farm Pushing Anti-Data Center Propaganda‘
“…they are sick of highest-in-the-nation taxes, regulations, anti-growth policies,
and California’s hostile-to-business attitude.”…
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“Chevron, X/Twitter, Space X, Oracle, Hewlett Packard, Charles Schwab,
Blue Diamond Growers, Leprino Foods, Anheuser-Busch and Toyota Motor
North America, are just a few of the mega-businesses which left California
because of the state’s leftist/Marxist politics and regulatory environment.”
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Cost of electing democrats,
Search Results for: Leaving California list 2018 to present.