Posted on 11/08/2024 12:45:27 AM PST by thecodont
Donald Trump is poised to regain power across America after winning all seven swing states and upping the Republican vote share in all but two states. That shift to the right was also reflected in San Francisco and California, despite both the city and the state giving the majority of their votes to Vice President Kamala Harris.
According to the current count, 10 of California’s 58 counties flipped from blue to red — choosing Joe Biden in 2020 and Trump in 2024. Here are the 10 counties that turned red, starting with the narrowest move right, with around 55% of the votes counted as of Thursday morning.
Orange County gave 49.2% of its vote to Trump and 48.2% to Harris, making it one of only two coastal counties in California that went red (the other being Del Norte County on the Oregon border), if the current lead holds. Once a Republican stronghold, which Ronald Reagan called “the place where good Republicans go before they die,” Orange County gave the majority of its votes to Hillary Clinton in 2016 and Joe Biden in 2020 but now appears to have shifted back to the right.
Riverside County in Southern California flipped to Trump, with a 49.7% to 48.2% margin.
Butte County, which voted for Trump in 2016 but Biden in 2020, currently has Trump winning 49.5% to 47.7%
A large swath of the Central Valley flipped from Biden to Trump this year, including San Joaquin County, which has him up 49.9% to 47.5%.
One of the hottest counties in California has warmed up to the Republicans: Home of Death Valley, Inyo County has Trump leading by 3 points, 50.2% to Harris’s 47.2%. The biggest county in America, San Bernardino, also flipped red with nearly a 5-point margin...
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Short of some type of pandemic eliminating a huge portion of the population, CA will be blue forever. Once dems are in control of the election apparatus and the entities that are supposed to insure its integrity, they never lose.
In my youth, these counties were infra-red conservative. Now, just barely, or not really. Times have changed.
California never had a right to bear arms clause in its Constitution. It was doomed (DOOMED) from the beginning.
Dave Leip has Fresno instead of Del Norte, with Trump carrying Del Norte in 2020.
Interesting idea! :-)
Man some of those are big very populated counties
Surprises me some of them
Somewhere B1 Bob is smiling
I visited California many times, but not since 1986/ California was beautiful and a fun place.
Send Scott Presler and his team to California to register more Republicans.
Have Nicole Shanahan run as Governor.
Have Leo Terrell run as Attorney General.
We make California great again.
California needs to be the GOP’s “Manhattan Project”. If they can do that, all the other dominoes will fall, and every state will be at least Purple if not Red.
It’s tragic that the “progressive” disease of the appropriately (though unintentionally) named “progressive movement” of the Democrat/Communist Party is infecting the healthy parts of California as the infection metasticizes from the coast and from isolated tumors such as Sacramento and Davis. Unless removed (from power) this political disease will ultimately destroy the host.
I hope that someday the state of CA will be split up. It’s simply too big for all those votes to go to the rats every election. Illinios, Washington and Oregon too.
What I said. California is WAY too valuable to be ignored and discarded. Not only in terms of resources, but transportation and ports and military bases. This our country's West Coast. It's strategic that we take it back.
You are absolutely right!!!
Remember, Trump has visited (and will continue to visit) California. He knows how important it is.
California puts (state) constitutional amendments on its ballot, doesn't it?
YES!
I'd like to turn those blue counties red. Keep the state intact.
It’ll never happen as long as the rats are in charge, the illegal immigrants are there and the majority fail to realize the mess they created.
Orange, San Bernardino& Riverside counties were Red when I was growing up in the 60s & 70s. They went back to their roots.
She suggested the state could turn red if Trump went to work on it.
To much voter fraud, the Dems got it and won’t give it up. You would need voter integrity measures like Florida if you want to see California turn Red, or change course at all from the DNC at this point. Really, Biden policies were horrible, and Kamala had ZERO significant deviations from them. The majority of ballots (notice I didn’t say people) in California were still for Kamala.
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