{"id":2610263,"date":"2026-06-03T17:10:01","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T21:10:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-california-primaries-are-a-giant-disaster\/"},"modified":"2026-06-03T17:12:34","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T21:12:34","slug":"the-california-primaries-are-a-giant-disaster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-california-primaries-are-a-giant-disaster\/","title":{"rendered":"The California Primaries Are A Giant Disaster"},"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\">14<\/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%2Fthe-california-primaries-are-a-giant-disaster%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=2610263&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>The piece argues that California\u2019s June 2026 primary results so far point to sustained one-party political control and little hope for \u201ccourse correction,\u201d while also stressing that final outcomes may change as ballots are still far from fully counted.<\/p>\n<p>It says Secretary of State Shirley Weber warned that election results will take weeks, citing that only a little over half of expected ballots have been counted and turnout appears below 25%. The author claims this kind of late-counting has historically produced major swings-referencing how Kamala Harris allegedly appeared to lose in 2010 before ultimately winning weeks later.<\/p>\n<p>Using that context, the article then claims the current early trends are \u201cbad,\u201d highlighting Los Angeles and broader state races. It portrays Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass as likely on track for reelection despite alleged failures around wildfires, public safety, corruption, homelessness, and related scandals. It describes similarly left-leaning outcomes expected for Los Angeles County leadership, including candidates it characterizes as far-left.<\/p>\n<p>The author also points to purported instability in the Los Angeles County Sheriff\u2019s Department (including staffing and overtime concerns) while asserting that Sheriff Robert Luna is nevertheless likely to advance. It further claims state and federal politics will remain aligned with progressive figures-specifically calling out Scott Wiener as a likely winner for a House seat and predicting \u201cnational\u201d consequences of <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >pro-criminal\/sex-offender-tolerant policies<\/a> (as framed by the author).<\/p>\n<p>In state legislature, the article argues Democrats are likely to keep supermajorities and that incumbents are cruising in primaries. It closes by saying Republicans may find some opening in the governor\u2019s race, but ultimately characterizes the overall picture as indicating California voters are broadly willing to tolerate repeated failures, with little reason to expect meaningful change by November.  <\/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<div>\n<p><em>Editor\u2019s note: This <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-california-primary-election-season-is-screaming-a-warning-for-the-nation\/\" title=\"California&#039;s Primary ... Season Screams Warning For Nation\">article discusses mature themes<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>You can\u2019t fail in California if you have a (D) behind your name. The \u201cvote blue no matter who\u201d rule has you covered. A political nightmare is developing here, the scale of which is hard to exaggerate, because a comfortable majority of California voters just pull the lever for the new version of Tammany Hall no matter what. <\/p>\n<p>But before we talk about election results, note that we don\u2019t really have those. Last night, California Secretary of State Shirley Weber made the usual <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sos.ca.gov\/administration\/news-releases-and-advisories\/2026-news-releases-and-advisories\/california-secretary-state-shirley-n-weber-phd-announces-california-polls-are-now-closed-june-2-2026-primary-election\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">announcement<\/a> that one expects regarding elections in the Third World: \u201cOn Election Night, we will have a good picture of the outcome of most contests, but it will take weeks to know the final results. This is normal.\u201d She\u2019s not kidding. As I write this, the afternoon after election night, we\u2019ve counted a little more than <a href=\"https:\/\/calmatters.org\/politics\/elections\/2026\/06\/california-primary-election-results-june-2026\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">half of the expected ballots<\/a>, in an election that appears to be hovering below <a href=\"https:\/\/dp.electionresults.sos.ca.gov\/returns\/maps\/voter-turnout\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">25 percent<\/a> turnout.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s what that means. In 2010, the Democrat district attorney of San Francisco \u2014\u00a0a young Kamala Harris, if you remember that obscure name \u2014 appeared to have lost the race for California attorney general to the Republican DA in Los Angeles, Steve Cooley. Here\u2019s an old news <a href=\"https:\/\/rollcall.com\/2019\/07\/16\/when-kamala-harris-lost-on-election-night-but-won-three-weeks-later\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">headline<\/a> that revisits the outcome: \u201cWhen Kamala Harris lost on election night, but won three weeks later.\u201d Certain <em>very interesting things<\/em> tend to happen when California counts new ballots several weeks after election day.<\/p>\n<p>With that important proviso in mind, we can consider what seems to be happening so far in California\u2019s primary elections. And it\u2019s bad, bad, bad, bad, <em>bad<\/em> news.<\/p>\n<p>This woman stepped off an airplane from a trip to another continent while wildfires that would engulf roughly 7 percent of her giant city were burning in a place with a badly understaffed and under-equipped fire department, and here\u2019s what she did:<\/p>\n<figure>\n<p><span><\/p>\n<blockquote data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&#8216;Do you owe citizens an apology for being absent whilst their homes were burning? Do you regret cutting the fire department&#8217;s budget?<br \/> <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/skydavidblevins?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@skydavidblevins<\/a> questions the mayor of LA, Karen Bass, as she faces backlash regarding the California wildfires.<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Nkz8onjC7V\">https:\/\/t.co\/Nkz8onjC7V<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/WwRwp6Imqz\">pic.twitter.com\/WwRwp6Imqz<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Sky News (@SkyNews) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/SkyNews\/status\/1877115173443400065?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 8, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/span> <\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Unbroken catatonic silence. I thought, watching this, that her career was finally over. The joke was on me.<\/p>\n<p>Los Angeles has <em>plummeted<\/em> into decline and corruption. Skid Row keeps expanding in size and descending into ever-greater chaos and misery, with regular <a href=\"https:\/\/ktla.com\/news\/local-news\/skid-row-shooting-three-wounded\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">shootings<\/a> and stabbings and constant overdoses. Here\u2019s a news <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxla.com\/news\/meth-mansion-26m-taxpayer-funded-skid-row-campus-sees-surge-violence-drug-use-officials-stay-silent\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">headline<\/a> from May 29, days before the election: \u201c$26M Skid Row campus: Violence, drug use surge at \u2018Meth Mansion\u2019 as officials stay silent.\u201d A few miles away, the mid-city MacArthur Park is a zombie apocalypse. This news story, covering a Los Angeles Fire Department station near the park where firefighters say they routinely go through six to ten doses of Narcan on a normal shift, was broadcast the day before the election:<\/p>\n<figure>\n<p><span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Inside one of America's busiest fire stations: A day with LAFD Station 11\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/oGkpF-rdfJ0?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><\/span> <\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Federal prosecutors are finding a constant flood of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/usao-cdca\/pr\/executive-director-south-la-based-charity-arrested-federal-complaint-alleging-23\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">corruption cases<\/a> arising out of homeless services in Los Angeles, while an endless child prostitution scandal that recruits from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ca-dept-asks-foster-parents-how-many-migrant-children-they-can-house-includes-option-of-26-or-more\/\" title=\"CA Dept. Asks Foster Parents How Many Migrant Children They Can House, Includes Option Of \u201826 Or More\u2019\">county foster care system<\/a> has become so obvious that even the narrative police at The New York Times <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/10\/26\/magazine\/sex-trafficking-girls-la-figueroa.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">allowed themselves to notice<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Result: Karen Bass is cruising to reelection, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/2026-primary-elections\/los-angeles-mayor-results\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">advancing<\/a> to the general election by a comfortable margin. Democrat Socialists of America candidate Nithya Raman is on pace to finish third with around 20 percent of the vote, after she endlessly ranted that apparent second-place finisher Spencer Pratt is an evil MAGA candidate, so her votes go left to Bass in the general election. Barring a miracle, Bass plunges her city into a ghastly crisis of drugs and wildfire and gangs and child prostitution and ubiquitous encampments, then strolls away with 60 percent of the vote in November.<\/p>\n<p>The more powerful and important Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors meanwhile remains somewhere to the left of Che Guevara, as this dimwitted lunatic \u2026<\/p>\n<figure>\n<p><span><\/p>\n<blockquote data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<div lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\n<p>Congratulations to the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence on your honor tonight at Dodger\u2019s Pride Night. <\/p>\n<p>Your commitment to service and our Catholic values inspires me \ud83d\ude4f\ud83c\udffc<\/p>\n<p>Now, let\u2019s go Dodgers! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/MZOxGsmNws\">pic.twitter.com\/MZOxGsmNws<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u2014 Lindsey P. Horvath (@LindseyPHorvath) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/LindseyPHorvath\/status\/1669877331090112515?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 17, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/span> <\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>\u2026 has won so decisively in June that she doesn\u2019t face a run-off in November. She\u2019ll be joined on the county board by the idiotic far-left machine politician Maria Elena Durazo, whose campaign is that she posts <a href=\"https:\/\/www.durazoforsupervisor.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">girlboss pictures of herself<\/a> with Oprah Winfrey and Michelle Obama while promising ever more \u201ceconomic justice\u201d for Democrat client groups.<\/p>\n<p>If you have any doubt at all about the amount of failure Los Angeles voters will cheerfully tolerate, look at the most shocking outcome in the county. <\/p>\n<p>The Los Angeles County Sheriff\u2019s Department is <em>incredibly<\/em> important, policing a bunch of small cities as a <a href=\"http:\/\/shq.lasdnews.net\/content\/uoa\/CLB\/CLEB%20Municipalities.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">contract agency<\/a> while also being the police department for the giant unincorporated portion of the county. The sheriff does more policing than most people notice, since the department provides a bunch of services even for small cities with their own police departments. If your suburban city in L.A. County needs a SWAT team, a bomb disposal team, or a homicide investigation, your local police are calling the sheriff. And in a county with a mountain range and a national forest in the middle, if you drive off the side of the highway in the mountains, a big yellow and green helicopter that says SHERIFF on the side is coming to get you.<\/p>\n<figure>\n<p><span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"A day with LASD Air 5!\" width=\"422\" height=\"750\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/AooHz9g9HHc?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><\/span> <\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Meanwhile, the Los Angeles County Sheriff\u2019s Department is trapped in an unmistakable institutional freefall. The radically understaffed department is holding together a very basic level of patrol staffing by mandating <a href=\"https:\/\/thecurrentreport.com\/sheriff-lunas-overtime-narrative-collapses-internal-memo-reveals-a-department-running-on-exhaustion-while-leadership-tells-the-public-otherwise\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">massive blocks of overtime<\/a> for deputies, leading to scandals like the one in which the family of a murdered deputy <a href=\"https:\/\/abc7.com\/post\/la-county-sheriffs-department-deputy-killed-claim-ryan-clinkunbroomer\/14113843\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">sued the county<\/a> over the quite plausible claim that their son was too fatigued to defend himself against his killer. In a development that local news media mostly ignore, the department <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DYp7p7FSBRC\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">goes to \u201cself dispatch\u201d<\/a> from time to time when the dispatch system collapses, requiring deputies to decide for themselves which calls to handle. One of the largest urban police agencies in the country is struggling to keep the wheels from falling off.<\/p>\n<p>Result: Woke Sheriff Robert Luna, known for his high school drama club <a href=\"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/news\/immigration\/la-county-sheriff-ice-will-be-at-the-world-cup-in-la-but-agents-wont-do-enforcement\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">announcements<\/a> about how much he hates the mean racists at ICE, <a href=\"https:\/\/laist.com\/news\/politics\/voter-guides\/2026-election-california-primary-la-live-results-la-county-sheriff\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">appears set to advance<\/a> to the general election by a quite comfortable margin, with enough support across the county to be confident about November.<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere, the news is at least as unpleasant. San Francisco-based state senator Scott Wiener has spent his career <a href=\"https:\/\/www.esilverlaw.com\/blog\/new-law-allows-california-sex-offenders-to-be-removed-from-registry\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">protecting<\/a> sex offenders who target minors and <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Scott_Wiener\/status\/1484560885364396036\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">bragging<\/a> that sexually active 12-year-olds in California can get their STD medications and abortions without mommy and daddy finding out.<\/p>\n<figure><\/figure>\n<p>Wiener is running for Nancy Pelosi\u2019s seat in the House, and is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/2026-primary-elections\/california-us-house-district-11-results\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">likely to win it<\/a> after last night. Be ready for a <em>national<\/em> pro-pedophile politics.<\/p>\n<p>State legislative elections point toward more of the same, with a likelihood of more Democrat supermajorities in both houses of the state legislature. Appalling legislators are advancing toward easy reelection, prevailing by comfortable margins in their primaries. The dumber-than-a-golden-retriever Corey Jackson, a <em>doctor<\/em> of social work who got his doctorate from a degree mill after \u201cwriting\u201d a <a href=\"https:\/\/chrisbray.substack.com\/p\/against-credentialism\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">ludicrous dissertation<\/a>, was the author of California\u2019s successful \u201canti-book ban\u201d bill, which guarantees children in public schools a right to sexually explicit materials.<\/p>\n<figure>\n<p><span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Banning Book Bans in California Schools\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/AcFoJ8pFfTU?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><\/span> <\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Jackson is comfortably above <a href=\"https:\/\/calmatters.org\/politics\/elections\/2026\/06\/california-primary-election-results-june-2026\/#state-senate\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">50 percent<\/a> in his primary, giving him an easy path to victory in November. All the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/impossible-gop-picked-up-seats-in-house-picked-up-state-legislatures-picked-up-governorship-held-the-senate-but-sniffy-joe-won-not-a-chance\/\" title=\"IMPOSSIBLE: GOP Picked Up Seats in House, Picked Up ...s, Picked Up Governorship, Held the Senate -- But Sniffy Joe Won?... NOT A CHANCE\">state legislative races<\/a> are looking about like that.<\/p>\n<p>Republicans are taking some comfort from the governor\u2019s race, with Steve Hilton holding a lead over Tammany-machine career politician Xavier Becerra, one of the least interesting human beings on the planet. But Hilton\u2019s vote is <em>far<\/em> less than Becerra\u2019s vote plus the votes for the Democrat runners-up, including the <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/TomSteyer\/status\/2060404639330451678\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">utterly repellent<\/a> Tom Steyer, who currently sits in third place, so November will be <em>challenging<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>California desperately needed a major course correction, and the primary elections so far mostly tell us that nothing of the kind is even possible. We can check again when the count of alleged ballots actually finishes, but there\u2019s very little light shining through the darkness here.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>      Chris Bray is a senior correspondent at The Federalist and a former infantry sergeant in the U.S. Army. He has a history PhD from the University of California Los Angeles, not that it did him any good. He also posts on Substack, at &#8220;Tell Me How This Ends,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/chrisbray.substack.com\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Editor\u2019s note: Adult themes. California can\u2019t lose if your name has a (D); \u201cvote blue no matter who\u201d covers you. A major political nightmare is forming-hard to overstate<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2086,"featured_media":2610264,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/bass-at-37.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[4045,6571,33117,9973,66655],"class_list":["post-2610263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-california","tag-elections","tag-political-scandal","tag-primaries","tag-voter-discontent"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/bass-at-37.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2610263","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\/2086"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2610263"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2610263\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2610267,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2610263\/revisions\/2610267"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2610264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2610263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2610263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2610263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}