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New Poll: Californians Want Cooperation with Trump, Not Newsom’s Political Stunts
Townhall ^ | 04/17/2025 | Sarah Arnold

Posted on 04/17/2025 6:36:09 PM PDT by SeekAndFind

A new poll out of deep-blue California is sending a clear message: voters want their state to work with President Donald Trump, not against him. Despite Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) and his Democrat allies waging constant political war with the Trump administration, the public appears exhausted over the partisan grandstanding. Instead, many Californians are signaling they’d rather see cooperation than endless resistance, even if it means setting aside the left’s obsession with opposing Trump at every turn.

According to a poll conducted by the University of California, Berkeley professor Jack Citrin, together with Politico, Californians are more interested in fighting illegal immigration and climate change, as opposed to Newsom and Democratic state lawmakers, who are just focused on rebuffing Trump’s agenda. The results from the survey highlight a gap between that state’s political leaders and its voters. While the state is heavily Democratic, many voters, frustrated by rising crime and the high cost of living, showed growing support for Trump in 2024.

California voters are less keen on fighting Donald Trump than their state’s political elite. In a dual survey of California voters and political professionals who are driving the state’s agenda, the electorate is strikingly more likely to want a detente with the White House. Voters are also more divided on issues like immigration and climate change, where Gov. Gavin Newsom and Democratic state lawmakers have asserted progressive ambitions that rebuff the president’s agenda.

The poll shows that while Democratic voters favor taking on Trump, the electorate broadly wants their representatives to lower the temperature. Forty-three percent of registered voters said leaders were “too confrontational” — a sentiment largely driven by Republicans and independents — compared to a third who found them “too passive.” A plurality of Democrats surveyed, 47 percent, wanted a more aggressive approach.

This comes as Newsom announced a lawsuit against Trump’s tariffs and approved $50 million in new spending to sue the Trump administration or provide legal aid to illegal immigrants—all while the state is simultaneously requesting $40 billion in wildfire relief from the federal government.



TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: California
KEYWORDS: california; newsom; newsomfornia; trump

1 posted on 04/17/2025 6:36:09 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

Too bad. I was born and raised in that beautiful state. But the lobster infested everything and 80% of the state voted it right in. Suffer in your feces infested s hole. They will always vote for the commie now. And if they don’t, well, it is a sanctuary state and the illegals will vote in the democrats anyway. Of just arrest any challenger to the party.


2 posted on 04/17/2025 6:55:39 PM PDT by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes)
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To: SeekAndFind

They will be ignored.


3 posted on 04/17/2025 7:20:42 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is opinion or satire. Or both.)
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To: Organic Panic

Was beautiful until it went from 17 million to 40 MILLION. The big party got crashed bad.

They turned places like Yosemite into overcrowded hotel amusement parks, The beaches? No beer, no cookouts, smoking, zip! Some beaches even outlawed Frisbees! Cops stand around with citation books handy. Up in the mountains you see these warning signs, “You must have an “adventure pass” to enter the forest! It got worse and worse...On and on.


4 posted on 04/17/2025 7:46:49 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: dragnet2

Does an adventure pass allow you to hunt rabbits? Or illegals?


5 posted on 04/17/2025 7:54:28 PM PDT by Kudsman (Democrats' brand is FRAUD. Elections, biology, climate, journalism, auto pen, peace, life and God. )
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To: SeekAndFind

They had the chance to get rid of that schmuck and they chose to keep him.
Sympathy meter remains at zero.


6 posted on 04/18/2025 5:35:05 AM PDT by grobdriver (The CDC can KMA!)
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To: grobdriver

Do you think that was a FAIR response from California??

IT HAD FRAUD WRITTEN ALL OVER IT.


7 posted on 04/18/2025 5:49:01 AM PDT by Maris Crane
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To: Kudsman

No, just set fires.


8 posted on 04/18/2025 6:15:49 AM PDT by _longranger81
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; BraveMan; cardinal4; ...

9 posted on 04/18/2025 7:32:09 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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To: SeekAndFind
According to a poll conducted by the University of California, Berkeley professor Jack Citrin, together with Politico, Californians are more interested in fighting illegal immigration and climate change, as opposed to Newsom and Democratic state lawmakers, who are just focused on rebuffing Trump’s agenda.

This has the feel of 'damned with faint praise'...

10 posted on 04/18/2025 7:46:48 AM PDT by GOPJ (Elites want the gravy train running ripping us off for NATO, Tariffs and bad trade deals. NO MORE.)
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To: dragnet2
They turned places like Yosemite into overcrowded hotel amusement parks, The beaches? No beer, no cookouts, smoking, zip! Some beaches even outlawed Frisbees! Cops stand around with citation books handy. Up in the mountains you see these warning signs, “You must have an “adventure pass” to enter the forest! It got worse and worse...On and on.

Reads like the Babylon Bee...

11 posted on 04/18/2025 7:50:40 AM PDT by GOPJ (Elites want the gravy train running ripping us off for NATO, Tariffs and bad trade deals. NO MORE.)
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