{"id":2530702,"date":"2026-01-06T19:00:01","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T00:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/content-creator-trisha-paytas-mulls-run-for-congress\/"},"modified":"2026-01-06T19:02:01","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T00:02:01","slug":"content-creator-trisha-paytas-mulls-run-for-congress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/content-creator-trisha-paytas-mulls-run-for-congress\/","title":{"rendered":"Content creator Trisha Paytas mulls run for Congress"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fcontent-creator-trisha-paytas-mulls-run-for-congress%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2530702&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Trisha Paytas, the California-based content creator, has suggested she is considering a run for Congress, saying the idea came to her in a vivid dream and posting about it on YouTube and TikTok. She told followers she became more politically interested after having children and wants to pursue policies including a proposal she described as making &#8220;adult work not be legal until you&#8217;re 25.&#8221; Paytas did not name a party or district and offered the tentative campaign slogan &#8220;California could be good.&#8221; Her posts provoked a <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >mild social-media frenzy<\/a>; she has roughly 20 million followers across platforms, which would give her broad reach if she ran. Ballotpedia notes that California candidates must file an intent statement, nomination forms, gather signatures (or pay a small fee) to qualify for the ballot. Paytas,37,lives in California wiht her husband and three children and is known for work across YouTube,podcasts,reality TV,and other media.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">Content creator Trisha Paytas mulls a run for Congress: &lsquo;California could be good&rsquo;<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_2464934\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/media\/\">Media<\/a> personality Trish Paytas posted videos on Monday, mulling a run for <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/congress\/\">Congress<\/a> with the anticipation, &ldquo;<a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/california\/\">California<\/a> could be good.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The California-based content creator first mentioned a possible run in her <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/youtube\/\">YouTube<\/a> video: <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=tFVvjLf5aOk\">2026 MANIFESTATIONS<\/a>. She later posted a TikTok to her almost 11 million followers, looking up how to run for Congress, as she explained why she has started to gain an interest in politics, despite previously not being involved.<\/p>\n<div class=\"recommended-stories\">\n<h2>Recommended Stories<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/congressional\/4408404\/georgia-sets-march-special-election-to-fill-marjorie-taylor-greene-seat\/\">Georgia sets March special election to fill Marjorie Taylor Greene&#8217;s seat<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/congressional\/4407568\/trump-endorses-massie-challenger-ed-gallrein\/\">Trump urges &#8216;all MAGA Warriors&#8217; to back Massie challenger Ed Gallrein<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/congressional\/4406935\/mike-collins-jon-ossoff-new-ad-georgia-gop-primary\/\">Mike Collins zeroes in on Ossoff early in ad rollout despite GOP primary fight<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>&ldquo;The idea of me being representative for the state of California came to me in a dream&mdash;in a vision, if you will,&rdquo; Paytas explained. &ldquo;It&rsquo;s so vivid to me.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I never thought of myself as a political person until I started having kids and realizing, like, the world could be just so disastrous [and] dystopian for real by the time they get to be adults,&rdquo; she continued. &ldquo;I was like, &lsquo;Alright Trish, enough just, like, shutting it out, being ignorant.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Trisha Paytas, pictured on Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen. Paytas is mulling a run for Congress, which has sent social media into a mild frenzy  &mdash; (Photo by: Charles Sykes\/Bravo via Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Paytas said she needs to &ldquo;get a bill to Congress,&rdquo; with her main goal in California to make &ldquo;adult work not be legal until you&rsquo;re 25,&rdquo; adding that she has &ldquo;so many other agendas.&rdquo; <\/p>\n<p>Paytas did not specify which political party she would run under, or the district she would run in, but said her campaign slogan can be &ldquo;California could be good.&rdquo; It&rsquo;s unclear how seriously Paytas is considering a run, but the very fact that she posted videos on the subject was enough to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ex-natsec-official-evidence-for-theory-that-pandemic-came-from-lab-far-outweighs-natural-outbreak\/\" title=\"Ex-NatSec Official: Evidence For Theory That Pandemic Came From Lab \u2018Far Outweighs\u2019 Natural Outbreak\">send social media<\/a> into a mild frenzy.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/ballotpedia.org\/Ballot_access_requirements_for_political_candidates_in_California#Process_to_become_a_candidate\">Ballotpedia<\/a>, to run for office in California, a candidate must have an intention statement and file nomination forms with their county of residence. The candidate must receive 40-60 signatures for nomination papers, but can also qualify by paying a fee of 1% of the first year&rsquo;s salary for that office.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/house\/4407344\/trump-heavyweights-capitol-hill-burning-questions-venezuela\/\"><strong>TRUMP HEAVYWEIGHTS DESCEND ON CAPITOL HILL: BURNING QUESTIONS FROM LAWMAKERS ON VENEZUELA<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The content creator has nearly 20 million followers across her <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-new-acting-attorney-general-jeff-rosen-recently-wrote-an-essay-on-foreign-influence-in-us-elections-this-tells-us-a-little-about-his-knowledge-of-whats-going-on-today\/\" title=\"The New Acting Attorney General Jeff Rosen Recently Wrote an Essay on Foreign Influence in US Elections \u2013 This Tells Us A Little About His Knowledge of What\u2019s Going On Today\">social media platforms<\/a>, giving her a large reach if she were to run for Congress. The 37-year-old lives in California&nbsp;with her husband,&nbsp;Moses Hacmon, and their&nbsp;three children.<\/p>\n<p>Paytas is known for a wide range of personalities in the media, from a YouTube vlogger to lifestyle content on social media, and even starred on the United Kingdom&rsquo;s reality TV show &ldquo;Celebrity Big Brother.&rdquo; She hosts <span style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\">the&nbsp;<em>Just Trish Podcast<\/em>&nbsp;and has even starred on Broadway in her own show, as well as<\/span> joined the cast of <em>Beetlejuice<\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trisha Paytas mulls California congressional run<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3691,"featured_media":2530703,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/GettyImages-2243860649.jpg?w=594","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[49930,39977,6571,70260,70259],"class_list":["post-2530702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner","tag-celebrity-politics","tag-congressional-run","tag-elections","tag-influencer-news","tag-trisha-paytas"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/GettyImages-2243860649.jpg?w=594","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2530702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3691"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2530702"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2530702\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2530706,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2530702\/revisions\/2530706"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2530703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2530702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2530702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2530702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}