15,000 people were there from all over southern California! I don’t understand your comment re Novato, Antioch, or Dublin! None of those towns have the population of southern CA. Please help me understand your comment.
The problem in California is not that we can’t get conservatives riled up and voting - its that there are just too few of us. Its fine to have 15,000 people show up in Orange County. Its just that Orange County is a given, and they are a drop in the bucket. Orange county is one of the very few populous places in California that can still be counted on to go Republican.
Novato, Antioch and Dublin are SF Bay Area suburbs. They are typical of the places where the balance of electoral power lies. There are suburbs like this everywhere.
These are places that used to be pretty reliably Republican, or at least fairly conservative, back in the 1980’s-1990’s. They switched to the Democrats a decade ago, like a lot of similar places in California. If there is going to be a hope of getting California back, these are the places that will have to switch back. If these places have similar gatherings, then I would think that there is something significant happening.