By Matias Brule
The current 2026 Gubernatorial election is in a power struggle with the biggest candidate dropping out; the election is up to any democrats to win. While the republicans are up in the voter poll right now it looks very similar to the 2022 California Gubernatorial.
Every year the Republicans in the beginning have a higher voter percentage in the polls. This is due to Republicans having less candidates than Democrats so they usually have a more spread out voter pool compared to the more concentrated Republican voter pool. While Democrats usually have 4 to 3 candidates throughout voter polls; Republicans have a usual 2-1 candidates.
But with the most recent development in the race new candidates made it into the running and now it could be anyone’s win (now most likely one of the Democrats will win but still). The most recent developments though the biggest candidate dropped out of the race. Eric Swalwell has been the biggest name in California politics for years.
His exiting of the race opened up space for Xavier Becerra and Matt Mahan to gain surges in the polling giving them the chance they need to win. But you might be wondering why the biggest name currently in California politics left the race. Well that is because of recent allegations of child molestation. He denied all claims but still left the race.
Right now this election could go to anyone. But as always California is a Democratic state it’s most likely going to go blue. California doesn’t really have any possibility of turning into a swing state. But this election isn’t as cut and dry as it was early this year.
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