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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Yes, but that original oversight led to strict gun laws that date back decades. I believe the handgun waiting period is from the late 1940s in its original form. Given the political climate in CA now, a constitutional RKBA amendment is a very long shot.
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