Garry South

We don’t need a talking head from Fox News to run our state. I'm the only candidate who has declared a State of Emergency.

This poll was done with panels (participants reimbursed for taking polls) and where weighted it was to 2024 vote history - not primary representative, so take with a grain of salt. And don’t believe the 26% undecided. That’s not what campaign pollsters are seeing!

This is crazy. Xavier Becerra has raised and spent less than 1% of Tom Steyers money. Wild.

First in CA Playbook: New poll from David Binder Research suggests Republican Steve Hilton and Democrat Eric Swalwell are surging in the California governor’s race More: politico.com/newsletters/ca…

Did Trump just hand Swalwell the governor’s race? | Opinion sacbee.com/opinion/articl…

. @ronbrownstein captures the mood in CA Gov Race with ballots dropping in 5 weeks. cnn.com/2026/04/05/pol…

Swalwell-FBI clash draws attention to Trump foe’s California governor bid thehill.com/homenews/campa…

Swalwell-FBI clash draws attention to Trump foe’s California governor bid thehill.com/homenews/campa…

“Tax me more. Except for my offshore holdings and private equity stakes in Bermuda.” Just doesn’t have the same ring to it. sacbee.com/news/politics-…

Progressive Tom Steyer’s tax returns show offshore earnings, private equity stakes sacbee.com/news/politics-…

@KevinLiao_ C’mon, Kevin. You’re better than that.

Eric has spent so much time in DC he’s picked up many Trumpian qualities: Using his position to enrich himself & bullying/intimidating people into silence.

According the IGS polling from that race in March of 1998 Davis had dropped to 11% in the polls. He was up to 19% in April. Seems like this race is just about to heat up.

NEW: It's been decades since California had a governor's race like this one. Gray Davis was a huge underdog who prevailed in that wide-open 1998 contest. Now he has some advice for those being told to quit. latimes.com/politics/story…

@karenhanretty Oh, aren’t you cute, Karen.

I can't wait not to read Jake Tapper's future book about how Gavin Newsom and his team hid his record as governor from the media. He can title it, "Original Spin: Gavin Newsom's hair, his over-confidence and the media circle-jerk that ignored his eight-year record."

My take in today’s @LATpoliticsCA on Kamala Harris and ‘28. Or maybe, takedown. Ain’t happenin’. latimes.com/opinion/story/…

Tom Steyer wants to be governor but claims he hasn’t been following what’s been going on in the state closely enough the past seven years to evaluate Newsom’s performance.

ICYMI: Matt Mahan' late foray into the race for California governor came with extra fanfare, including a Super Bowl ad & rush of Silicon Valley support But 7 weeks later, Mahan’s campaign is stalled: politico.com/news/2026/03/1… @politico

@paulmitche11 @PPICNotes Oh, I vaguely remember that campaign, Pau.

With this focus on the @PPICNotes poll, I thought it would be fun to go back and look at the last really open and wild Governor's race in CA in 1998. In the PPIC survey from back then, Dr. Mark Baldassare had Lungren 23%, Checchi 19%, Harman 18%, Davis 12%, Other 3%, Don’t know 25%. This was run under a different type of Open Primary system, not the Top Two. And, obviously, Lungren was the only Republican. Interestingly, Checchi was in the lead after what was seen as a whopping $15m in spending, and 56% of likely voters said they had seen his ads. Compare that to current @TomSteyer spending where he has spent more than double this, and I saw a poll yesterday that said 75% of likely voters report seeing one of his ads. Of course, in 1998, it was all broadcast television. In the memo it says "Television is the major source for political news in California today. When asked where they get most of their information about politics, 40 percent said television, 35 percent newspapers, and 10 percent radio." 😂 ppic.org/wp-content/upl…

Can a billionaire really win over California’s left? Tom Steyer’s betting on it. For @politico: politico.com/news/2026/02/2…

Can Silicon Valley make a governor? Matt Mahan is betting yes For all the region’s financial and cultural heft, the bastion of Big Tech has been a cul-de-sac of political power in California politico.com/news/2026/01/2… w/ @MuiChristine