Several dynamics are driving this.
California Democrats have become so insane , corrupt and arrogant that they are making the state unlivable even for liberal Democrats
Republicans see that they might just have a chance and are not as apathetic as in past years.
The Trump Administration has shut down the diversion of taxpayer money that has been funding the professional Democrat machine politics
The Trump Administration has been putting pressure to shut down the Democrats vote fraud machine.
Trumps ICE enforcement and deportations have cut into the illegal aliens illegal voting in California elections which has been rampant in past elections.
There are some areas in California that are so heavily populated with illegal aliens that if illegals were not voting, the vote turn out in those areas would be in the single digits.
An in depth analysis of national voting trends demonstrated convincingly that the Democrats have padded their voting rolls to give a built in 4%-6% margin of vote fraud to statewide and national elections across the US . The Democrats brazen, blatantly over the top use of fraud to defeat President Trump in the 2020 exposed a lot of the Democrats vote fraud schemes
Turns out that we are not as evenly divided of a nation as the Democrats would like us to believe and that Democrats policies are not as popular as election results would suggest.
Democrats are just very good at manipulating elections
If Trump can shut down a significant part of the Democrats built in margin of fraud the Democrats will get wiped out nationwide.
A few things are in play here.
I’m sure there are a bunch of dejected Republicans living in LA that thought there vote was useless. They now feel a bit empowered to vote.
Many illegals have chosen to deport, and those who have not are afraid to draw attention to themselves by illegally voting.
Not every democrat voter is a whacked out commie and hates the direction of their party.
I don’t have a pollyannish view of the outcome, but remember, Trump had over 6 million votes in California, outpaced only by Texas.
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