Nicole Norman

1 day ago | politico.com | Nicole Norman |Blake Jones |Dustin Gardiner |Melanie Mason

Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco addresses supporters of President Donald Trump during a rally in Coachella, California on October 12, 2024. | Frederic J. Brown/AFP via Getty Images THE BUZZ: GRAND OLD SHOWDOWN — Steve Hilton’s now-official campaign for the governor’s mansion has locked him and Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco — the only other major Republican in the race — in a battle for the heart of the California GOP.

3 weeks ago | politico.com | Lindsey Holden |Nicole Norman

Former California state lawmaker Bill Essayli, a Republican from Riverside County, posted this photo in an announcement about his departure from the statehouse. | Shawn Lewis, former chief of staff to Bill Essayli SO LONG, FAREWELL: California Democrats will no longer have one of their most vocal adversaries yelling in their ears — sometimes literally — now that Republican Assemblymember Bill Essayli has left to serve as President Donald Trump’s next U.S. attorney in Los Angeles.

4 weeks ago | politico.com | Blake Jones |Dustin Gardiner |Nicole Norman

Border Patrol vehicles sit parked along border wall fencing between the U.S. and Mexico in Jacumba Hot Springs, San Diego County, California, on Aug. 1, 2024. | Patrick T. Fallon/AFP via Getty Images THE BUZZ: FIGHT FOR YOUR LEFT — Democratic resistance to President Donald Trump’s immigration agenda is surging back not just in California’s Democratic bastions but at the state’s politically purple Southern border.

1 month ago | politico.com | Melanie Mason |Nicole Norman

People stand in line to attend Ro Khanna’s town hall event in Bakersfield, Calif., March 23, 2025. | Melanie Mason/POLITICO Town halls are, once again, in the political zeitgeist, much like the Tea Party-inspired outpouring of 2009 or the 2017 backlash to the efforts to gut Obamacare. Republican leadership is advising members to avoid in-person meetings; those who forged ahead anyway are rewarded with viral clips of booing crowds Meanwhile, Sanders and Rep.

1 month ago | politico.com | Blake Jones |Dustin Gardiner |Nicole Norman

Patrons react during a watch party for the first presidential debate of the 2024 presidential elections at a pub in San Francisco, California, on June 27, 2024. | Josh Edelson/AFP via Getty Images THE BUZZ: PAINT THE TOWN RED — New California GOP Chair Corrin Rankin was elected to her new post easily on Sunday and began her tenure promising to place more of the party’s focus on Democratic strongholds.