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Originally a swing state following statehood, California began regularly supporting Republicans for the first half of the 20th century. This changed with the passing of civil rights laws by Democrats in the 1960s and the subsequent rightward shift of the Republican Party. The party remained competitive with Democratic candidates until 1992.
Harris, a native of California, served as the state's Attorney General from 2011 to 2017 and later represented California in the U.S. Senate from 2017 to 2021 before assuming the vice presidency. She is the first Californian to be featured on a major party presidential ticket since Ronald Reagan in 1984.
The California College Republicans (CCR) is a California state organization for college and university students who support the Republican Party of the United States. [4] Founded on August 29, 1963, the organization is the official chartered youth wing and a recruiting tool for the California Republican Party .
She cited party registration data showing Republicans on the upswing, noting that in October, about 150,000 people registered to vote in California as Republicans while Democrats lost 106,000 voters.
In swing states, where Biden doesn't have a big Democratic cushion to protect him, the impact of independent and third-party candidates could be enough to swing the outcome to Trump.
The Cook Partisan Voting Index, abbreviated PVI or CPVI, is a measurement of how partisan a U.S. congressional district or U.S. state is. [1] This partisanship is indicated as lean towards either the Republican Party or the Democratic Party, [2] compared to the nation as a whole, based on how that district or state voted in the previous two presidential elections.
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California is considered a safe blue state in presidential elections due to large concentrations of Democratic voters in urban regions such as the San Francisco Bay Area, Sacramento, Los Angeles, and San Diego. As predicted, Biden easily carried California on election day, earning 63.5% of the vote and a margin of 29.2% over Trump.