Trump Job Approval

Pollsters wrong in 2024:41.0 / 56.0-15.0
Pollsters right in 2024:45.1 / 53.1-8.0

2026 House Forecast

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2026 Senate Forecast

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Still Close in California

After Swalwell forced out, GOP still in contention for primary sweep. Democrats may have to “help” another of their candidates drop out.

Gudelunas Strategies poll | 4/14-4/18 LV

California Governor jungle primary 2026

(Top two vote getters advance)

🟥Steve Hilton 20%
🟦Xavier Becerra 15%
🟦Tom Steyer 15%
🟥Chad Bianco 14%
🟦Katie Porter 13%
🟦Matt Mahan 6%
🟦Antonio Villaraigosa 3%
🟦Tony Thurmond 2%
🟦Betty Yee 2%
🟦Eric Swalwell <1% (dropped out)
Someone else 1%
Undecided 10%

41 responses to “Still Close in California”

  1. First

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  2. jason yupanqui Avatar

    A one eyed A-hole came in first?

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  3. jason yupanqui Avatar

    I fear much of the Town cultural history may be lost unless the Town helps create a central repository of Hedgesville memorabilia that will consolidate there photos, films, VCRs interviews of former Town residents.”

    Walt, why don’t you found the Hedgeville Historical Society. Form a committee in charge of seeking donations for a building. Try to find a volunteer curator to help organize the material, like a retired librarian or history professor. Find a volunteer treasurer like a retired accountant to manage a building fund and keep track of pledges for materials. Use your connections to see if there is some state fund for historical preservation you can tap into. Get the local rep to earmark something for it.

    There is an added bonus. The President of the Hedgeville Historical Society is way too important to do chores, sorry.

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  4. jason yupanqui Avatar

    Walt used to run the Library at Alexandria. The Hedgeville Historical Society should be easier.”

    Rumor is someone was smoking in the stacks when the Alexandria fire started. I won’t say it was Walt but Walt does smoke…..

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  5. The Iranians have reversed course and said they will show up for negotiations on Tuesday after all.

    Predictable. The usual playbook.

    1. Take it to the deadline
    2. Make vague promises to get the US to delay consequences
    3. Get US to extend deadline
    4. Go back on promises almost immediately
    5. Rinse and repeat

    Trump needs to break the cycle and just let consequences commence. Quit messing around with these loons, Donnie. Just stop. For God’s sake, just finish them.

    Kill them. Kill them all.

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  6. Phil – You want all Iranians killed? Seems a bit much.

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  7. Nope. I want the Iranian people free.

    When I say “kill them all” I mean kill the regime off. Dirt naps for all the hard line loons in charge of things. Whatever it takes. Quit with the constant moving red lines. If we are going to do this then get on with it. Get on with the consequences. It’s all these lunatics understand. We all know that by now.

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  8. Walt, why don’t you found the Hedgeville Historical Society. Form a committee in charge of seeking donations for a building. Try to find a volunteer curator to help organize the material, like a retired librarian or history professor. Find a volunteer treasurer like a retired accountant to manage a building fund and keep track of pledges for materials. Use your connections to see if there is some state fund for historical preservation you can tap into. Get the local rep to earmark something for it.

    ☆☆☆☆☆

    Well, there is your answer.

    I am nearing 78 years old (545 years in dog life) and I do not want to to do all that work.

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  9. is there any country in the world, besides whackjob Iran whose publicly stated goal is to nuke the U.S. and Idrael?

    I am with Phil on this…

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  10. Saw a video on Facebook from this morning at 6 a.m. that the WV DOHighways has big equipment that has begun taking down the huge 200+ year old sycamore tree.that is in Hedgesville right bear the town square.

    That tree has witnessed the killing of a settler be Indians at the town spring, founding of and incorporation of the town in 1835, the Civil war events including the battke and capture of the Union gsrrison at the blockhouse a mile away that was guarding the main line of the B and O RR, the first paving of route 9 between Martinsburg and Berkeley Springs WV, the first electric lines coming to and through the Town of Hegesville, the rise and fall of Hedgesville Grocery, the big ruckus in the 1930s where old man Speights shot and killed a state trooper and a posse was assembled and standoff and shootout commenced when they surrounded him in his barn, and he sho another trooper, and then authorities dynamite the barn abd killed him. And much shenanigans by the youth of Hegesville during the 1950s and 1960s, and HHS winning that state basketball championship in 1970.

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  11. Are there any polling or sites predicting the results of tomorrow’s redistricting election in VA? Supposedly the Dems have an 8-1 financial advantage – $80 million to 10 million, with the Dems paying college students to get out the vote, versus an activated grass roots trying to oppose this grossly unfair action by progressive Dems.

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  12. Haven’t seen polling on this in Virginia.

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  13. Washington Post poll had YES up a few points a couple weeks ago. The ads coming by mail have been overwhelmingly NO lately, so there is that.

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  14. the key will be getting independents out to vote. They in theory are solid NO votes because they want to have choices, not just have Dems rammed down their throats.

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  15. Not sure if it was the WaPo poll, I saw 52-47 Yes a few weeks back.

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  16. The only other indication is a Span-burgler approval poll that wasn’t so great for her.

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  17. Tbh, if anything sinks the amendment, it will be that the state is reeling from how far Left she’s gone in the opening weeks of her term. Even that might not be enough, but rural voters and gun owners are livid, and even some good government libs up in NOVA aren’t thrilled with the power grab.

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  18. DW, here is the latest on VA polling; Quantas and State Navigate have it close at 51/47 and 51-45 (rounded, it was a five point Yes lead). Q does a version of informed ballot which closes it to 49/47 Yes. Q surveyed 1003 voters on 4/16, MOE 3.3%, Navigate was 4/10-13, 707 LVs, MOE 3.7%.

    2026 Virginia redistricting amendment_Quantus.pdf – Google Drive

    State Navigate Poll: Virginians are Divided on Governor Spanberger and Redistricting Referendum – State Navigate

    Span approval tied at 47, but hard disapproves outpace the hard approvers.

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  19. I have it on good authority from my sources (Facebook) that Presid et Trump will soon appear on TV to tell the public what the U.S. government has know for decades about aliens, ufos, captured aliens and spacecraft, experiments, known portals (one on U.S. forest property) under control of the U.S. military, etc. Past presidents for decades have wrestled with doing this but were concerned about the timing and the public loosing their sh!t.

    The captured aliens are divided among several groups–some are friendly and some are hostile. Some are called the grays, others other names…some races of aliens are tall (7 footers) and some are short. One group never eats..but does produce little balls within its own body that they then consume.

    We even have a yellow book supplies by them about the creation of the universe.

    The announcement may come as early as May 1. Or possibly in August.

    They are particularly worried about thw response. Y evangelical Christians who are likely to view the aliens as demonic and enemies.

    Stay tuned…Cash Cow and I are both working hard on this story…

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  20. jason yupanqui Avatar

    Trump’s stupid tariffs, trade wars and war on international commerce come home to roost.

    U.S. businesses that paid tariffs that the Supreme Court ruled were illegal can start applying for refunds Monday.

    Why it matters: The Trump administration’s launch of an online portal for tariff refund applications marks the first phase of its efforts to comply with court orders to reimburse billions of dollars in paid tariffs and interest to importers.

    Context: The Supreme Court didn’t address how the government should refund tariffs paid under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA), but the Court of International Trade last month ordered the administration to begin the reimbursements process.”

    Seems like $127 billion is eligible.

    Will it help inflation. No. Most companies aren’t passing it on to consumers.

    Even though the Supreme Court struck down a large portion of President Donald Trump’s tariff agenda — with a judge later ordering the government to prepare to potentially pay billions of dollars in refunds to importers who paid the tariffs — consumers shouldn’t expect to see any money back.

    That’s according to the latest CNBC CFO Council quarterly survey. While 12 of the 25 chief financial officers said their company plans to apply for tariff refunds, none said they intend to directly share that money with customers.

    So basically Trump’s war on international trade is lose-lose.

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    nd I do not want to to do all that work.

    Walt would rather work like a dog at home than work for the Hedgeville Historical Society?

    Each to his own

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  22. All the recent missing/dead ufo scientists may be connected to thw upcoming release of UFO info…by a rogue group in the government that opposes the public release of info….

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  23. “…what the U.S. government has know for decades about aliens…”

    Not possible Walt. If this was known during any Democrat administrations, the outer space aliens would have been compelled to register and vote Democrat.

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  24. I will say this, in the last week leading up to the election tomorrow, the voice messages left, the flyers in the mail, the yard signs going up…all from the VOTE NO camp.

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  25. Zzzzzzzzz Walt saw more that tree.

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  26. You saw

    I did not saw that tree.

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  27. Walt, its odd that with that massive 7.4 earthquake near Japan, that currently there have been ZERO earthquakes in all of Africa the last week, and ZERO in South America over the last 24 hours.

    And ZERO earthquakes in mainland Europe and Asia the last 24 hours.

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  28. Morning Consult generic ballot is

    GOP 42 / DEM 45

    Prior was 40 / 48

    So for now moving in the right direction.

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  29. I will say this, in the last week leading up to the election tomorrow, the voice messages left, the flyers in the mail, the yard signs going up…all from the VOTE NO camp.

    DW, I was hoping you would comment on tomorrow’s VA redistricting election. If the “NO” vote manages to pull out a win, it will be a feather in the cap of a grass roots coalition, pulling their forces together at the last minute with little money. Rural VA will lose any representation – some 50 plus counties – if the Dems win this thing. I view this as an election that could prove to be a turning point for the midterms – one way or the other.

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  30. This year Trump is planning on attending the White House Correspondents Dinner – an event he usually avoids. I think he should opt out this year as well as 250 journalists have signed a derogatory letter threatening to challenge Trump on free speech in the press. It basically will be an uncomfortable ambush to publicly humiliate him. I would suggest he just leave them hanging with all their hostility having no where to go.

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  31. I say Trump should go. Man the F up, kick in the door and fight on their turf. Tell a few jokes, too.

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  32. CORRECTION …I am nearing 79 years old,. not 78.

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  33. Trump is a traitor to the Republic of the United States of America

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  34. BREAKING

    Trump issued a new condition to Iran.

    They must rename the city where peace talks are being held in Pakistan from Islamisbad

    to Islam Is Evil.

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  35. jason yupanqui Avatar

    CORRECTION …I am nearing 79 years old,. not 78.”

    Is that eons or eras?

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    Walt is so old that a million years more or less makes no difference

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  37. Walt does not look a day over 1.8 billion years old.

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  38. irstSquawk

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    S&P 500 2026 year-end target raised to 7,600 from 7,200 by JPMorgan.

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  39. FirstSquawk

    SOURCES TO THE “CNN” NETWORK: THE UNITED STATES BELIEVES THERE IS A SPLIT BETWEEN THE IRANIAN NEGOTIATION TEAM AND THE REVOLUTIONARY GUARD.

    ·This is not “new” news.

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  40. Paul is a traitor to the Republic of the United States of America

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