Since President Donald Trump took office, California has tried to place itself as the center of the resistance to his administration . Some people viewed the primaries as a referendum on the president, indicative of Democrats’ ability to mobilize voters.
But now that counties have fully reported their primary election results, experts doubt there was much of "Trump bump" in June.
"If there was a huge Trump effect, we would have seen more votes cast in closely contested House races for Democrats than Republicans, and we just didn’t see that," said William Hussey , associate professor of political science at Sacramento […]
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