Politics, Government & Business in California's Inland Empire
Michael Lee
Tue, October 5, 2021, 4:55 PM
A pollster that typically leans toward Democrats shows the Republican Party with a lead in its latest generic congressional ballot poll, a potentially concerning sign for Democrats as next year’s midterms loom.
Salena Zito, National Political Reporter |
October 04, 2021 12:08 PM
MIDLAND, Pennsylvania — For as much cash and strategy as partisans put into creating a wave for their own parties, they always seem to miss where the ripple starts and why.
By Brian Rokos | [email protected] | The Press-Enterprise
Published: May 7, 2021 at 3:00 p.m. | Updated: May 7, 2021 at 3:07 p.m.
Former Congressman Jerry Lewis of Redlands will not be prosecuted after initially being charged with felony spousal battery, the San Bernardino County District Attorney’s Office said.
By Sandra Emerson | [email protected] |
Published: August 26, 2019 at 4:07 pm | Updated: August 26, 2019 at 8:44 pm
An unexpected opening on the San Bernardino County Board of Supervisors may lead to a game of political musical chairs.
By Patrick McGreevy and Taryn Luna
Mar 05, 2019 | 12:45 PM
| Sacramento
California lawmakers were showered with more than $810,000 in gifts last year, many from powerful interest groups lobbying the state who handed out concert and professional sports tickets, spa treatments, gourmet dinners and trips to a dozen countries, new state reports show.
By Kevin Modesti | [email protected] | Daily News
Published: February 15, 2019 at 5:57 pm | Updatd: February 16, 2019 at 7:56 pm
Not that he’s counting down his days to freedom or anything, but Jim Brulte seemed keenly aware that the end of his time as California Republican Party chairman was 11 days away — not 10, not an even dozen — as he sat for an interview Thursday at his house in Fontana.
Jim Erwin
Sunday, November 4, 2018 - 12:30 p.m.
Now that I finally have some time to do some writing on politics, let’s get to it!
I prefer to render political observations after taking in data from a broad spectrum of sources and feedback. Two years ago it had become pretty clear to me in the final four weeks leading up to the presidential Election that Donald Trump would prevail.
By Jeff Horseman | [email protected] | The Press-Enterprise
Published: November 1, 2018 at 2:51 pm | Updated: November 1, 2018 at 11:44 pm
For Chris Mann, the June primary results in California’s 8th Congressional District played out perfectly, when two GOP candidates, incumbent Paul Cook and challenger Tim Donnelly, finished first and second.
Saturday, August 25, 2018 - 10:00 p.m.
U.S. Senator John McCain (R-Arizona) passed away Saturday afternoon following a heroic battle with a treatable, but incurable, form of brain cancer know as Glioblastoma.
He was 81.
McCain’s family was by his side when he left this Earth.
Jim Erwin
Tuesday, August 14, 2018 - 09:00 p.m.
The main stream media says one thing. But voters are saying something different.
By Joe Garofoli
Published: May 2, 2018
Updated: May 2, 2018 - 5:51pm
The California Republican Party convention begins Friday in San Diego, and the expectations for the weekend are — if we’re being polite — modest. If we’re being real, they’re lower than dirt.
Capitol Alert
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By Angela Hart
[email protected]
April 25, 2018 - 08:00 PM
The two major Republican candidates in the race to succeed Gov. Jerry Brown are battling for second place to make the November runoff, while Democratic Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom has strengthened his lead, according to a new poll from UC Berkeley’s Institute of Governmental Studies.
By Naomi Jagoda - 03/18/18 06:00 AM EDT
Republicans are increasingly talking about “phase two” of tax cuts — including a permanent extension of the new law’s individual tax cuts — in an effort to highlight their signature legislative accomplishment and force Democrats to take tough votes.
Joshua Stewart
March 15, 2018
After an extended deadline, 16 candidates have completed paperwork to run for an open seat in Congress, held by retiring Rep. Darrell Issa, making it the busiest race in the San Diego area.
By Jeff Horseman | [email protected] | The Press-Enterprise
Published: March 2, 2018 at 1:27 pm | Updated: March 2, 2018 at 3:46 pm
Inland Assemblyman Marc Steinorth has decided not to seek re-election, a decision that could affect the balance of power in Sacramento and the San Bernardino County Board of Supervisors.
By John Wildermuth
Published: February 16, 2018
Updated: February 17, 2018 - 8:41am
Rep. Doug LaMalfa, whose Butte County seat is considered among the safest Republican strongholds in the state, faces a long-shot opponent who has out-raised him for the campaign.
January 27, 2018
When Republicans in Congress passed the largest tax reform in the last 30 years, the opposition party held press conferences decrying the measure and telling the nation it was actually a big tax increase for the middle class. They referred to it as “Armageddon” and other outlandish descriptions of gloom and doom. Not a single Democrat in either the House of Representatives or the Senate voted for the measure.
By Carolyn Lochhead
Published: January 27, 2018
Updated: January 27, 2018 8:36 p.m.
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration’s newly released plan to resolve the fate of young immigrants who arrived in the country illegally as children would constitute the biggest change to immigration policy in decades, putting Democrats and their allies in a painful vise.
By Jeff Horseman | [email protected] | The Press-Enterprise
Published: January 26, 2018 at 1:49 pm | Updated: January 26, 2018 at 3:20 pm
San Bernardino County Supervisor James Ramos has filed paperwork for a potential 2018 run against Inland Assemblyman Marc Steinorth, shaking up the race for a battleground district targeted heavily by Democrats in the last election.
Thursday, January 25, 2018 - 10:30 a.m.
The transom is clamoring over San Bernardino County Third District Supervisor James Ramos (D-San Manuel Reservation) gearing up to run in the 40th Assembly District, a seat currently occupied by Marc Steinorth (R-Rancho Cucamonga).
Wednesday, January 24, 2018 - 09:30 p.m.
I’ve said more than once that Donald Trump is ten steps ahead of everyone else.
Now I’m sure of it.
By Joe Garofoli
Published: January 11, 2018
Updated: January 11, 2018 - 11:50 pm
There are now four major Democrats and three Republicans running for governor. In California, that means there are too many Republicans in the race.
Hey, that’s not just my opinion. Ask Jim Brulte, chairman of the California Republican Party.
Incensed that Assembly Republican Leader Chad Mayes supported a Democratic plan to renew a key climate change policy, California conservative activists are calling for his resignation and raising allegations of an affair with his predecessor.
By Willie Brown
June 10, 2017
It was great entertainment, but for all the hype, the Senate Intelligence Committee hearings that featured former FBI Director James Comey failed to deliver a knockout punch.
By Erica Werner and Alan Fram
May 4, 2017
WASHINGTON (AP) — Delivering at last, triumphant House Republicans voted Thursday to repeal and replace the “Obamacare” health plan they have reviled for so long, overcoming united Democratic opposition and their own deep divisions to hand a major win to President Donald Trump.
Sarah D. Wire
April 6, 2017 - 10:24 a.m.
Reporting from Washington—
Democrat Kia Hamadanchy announced he’ll run for the 45th Congressional District Thursday, becoming the third Democrat this week to announce plans to challenge Rep. Mimi Walters (R-Irvine) for the seat.
AP Top News
By Thomas Beaumont and Bill Barrow
Mar. 27, 2017
The Republican Party of “no” for Democrat Barack Obama’s eight years is having a hard time getting to “yes” in the early Donald Trump era.
By Edward-Isaac Dovere
03/01/17 - 05:04 AM EST
President Donald Trump cleared a low bar: He read proficiently off a teleprompter, he looked human as he spurred long applause for the widow of the Navy SEAL killed in the raid he ordered, he didn’t get into a shouting match with any Democrats or slip off into a rant about reporters as the enemy of the people.
Patrick McGreevy
February 26, 2017
The race for California attorney general in 2018 has been shaken up by the so-called “Trump factor,” with the state’s newly appointed top lawyer, Xavier Becerra, seeing his profile boosted to the national stage by legal challenges to the Republican president.
Phil Willon and Christine Mai-Duc
February 24, 2017
Jim Brulte hopes to keep a job few would envy: As chairman of the California Republican Party, he’s tasked with trying to steer his party out of the wilderness in one of the bluest states in the nation.
By Jeff Horseman, The Press-Enterprise
Posted: 02/16/17 - 8:11 PM PST |
Rep. Norma Torres, D-Pomona, is among a group of Congressional Hispanic Caucus members who said Republicans kicked them out of a meeting with the acting head of Immigration and Customs Enforcement Thursday, Feb. 16.
Christine Mai-Duc
Feb. 15, 2017 - 1:55 p.m.
The Republicans have named their top 10 most vulnerable incumbents in Congress, and three Californians are among them.
Capitol Alert
By Christopher Cadelago
[email protected]
January 30, 2017 - 2:19 PM
For Democrats enraged and taking official action Monday to denounce President Donald Trump’s order temporarily banning travel from seven majority-Muslim countries, California Republican Party Chairman Jim Brulte has a message: “This is purely hypocritical, political posturing.”
Friday, January 20, 2017 - Noon
With full fanfare, Republican Donald J. Trump was sworn in as the 45th President of the United States at precisely Noon on Friday.
Trump replaces Barack H. Obama, who served from 2009 to 2017.
By Jeff Horseman / Staff Writer
Published: Jan. 13, 2017 - Updated: 10:43 p.m.
Rancho Cucamonga Republican Paul Chabot, who ran unsuccessfully for Congress in 2014 and 2016, is moving to the Lone Star State – but not before dispensing some harsh words for California progressives.
By Alex Isenstadt
01/14/17 - 06:25 PM EST
Peter Thiel, the Silicon Valley billionaire and outspoken Donald Trump supporter, is considering a 2018 bid for California governor, according to three Republicans familiar with his thinking.
Sarah D. Wire
December 28, 2016
So far, none of California’s 55 senators and representatives have announced plans to retire ahead of the 2018 election. But after weeks at home with family during the holidays to talk about the future, such declarations could come soon.
By Jeff Horseman / Staff Writer
Published: Dec. 26, 2016
Updated: Dec. 27, 2016 - 8:05 p.m.
Riverside County Supervisor John Benoit died Monday night, Dec .26 at age 64, his office announced.
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By Carla Marinucci
12/22/16 - 06:00 AM EST
SAN FRANCISCO — Jim Brulte, the current chair of the California Republican Party, once served as a high-profile backer of National Popular Vote, a movement that supports the elimination of the Electoral College.
By Philip Bump
December 20, 2016 at 12:11 PM
On Monday, Faith Spotted Eagle became one of 117 people in U.S. history to receive a vote for president in the electoral college.
By Martin Wisckol, The Orange County Register
Posted: 12/18/16 - 12:58 PM PST |
A new president usually lifts all boats in his party.
Capitol Alert
By Taryn Luna
[email protected]
December 16, 2016 - 4:53 PM
California Republican Party Chairman Jim Brulte is mounting a re-election bid and high-profile GOP figures are already lining up to back him.
Capitol Alert
By Christopher Cadelago
[email protected]
December 13, 2016 - 4:37 PM
Steve Schmidt, the Republican strategist who advised John McCain’s presidential bid and helped elect Arnold Schwarzenegger governor of California, imagines a not-too-distant future where the GOP here ceases to wield the influence of a major party and instead becomes the state’s largest interest group.
Capitol Alert
By Dan Walters
[email protected]
November 27, 2016 - 12:01 AM
Demography, it’s been said, is destiny – and the outcome of California’s election this month proves it again.
By Niall Stanage
11/23/16 - 06:02 PM EST
Donald Trump won the presidency with an unpredictable approach, and he is sticking with it as he prepares to move into the White House.
Wednesday, November 16, 2016 - 09:15 p.m.
GOP Congressman Darrell Issa will retain his seat in the U.S. House of Representatives.
By Dan Walters
[email protected]
November 15, 2016 - 3:27 PM
Let’s assume that California’s bullet train project never gets beyond the current work in the San Joaquin Valley – about 100 miles of track and a few stations.
Friday, November 11, 2016 - 11:30 a.m.
Now that all of the dust is settling in the aftermath of Republican Donald Trump’s surprise victory over Democrat Hillary Clinton it’s time to reflect a little.
Wednesday, November 9, 2016 - 07:30 a.m.
In what to most was a stunning victory. Billionaire non-politician Donald Trump will become the forty-fifth President of the United States on January 20, 2017.
Saturday, November 5, 2016 - 10:30 a.m.
The liberal mainstream media is essentially freaking out on Saturday morning, with poll after poll showing the steam running out of Hillary Clinton’s campaign.
By Jeff Horseman, The Press-Enterprise
Posted: 11/03/16 - 10:12 PM PDT |
Depending on where you live, the source of those political ads cramming your mailbox may be hundreds of miles away.
By John Bresnahan and Rachael Bade
Published: 10/27/16 - 11:55 PM EDT
Updated: 10/27/16 - 11:55 PM EDT
Speaker Paul Ryan’s suddenly shaky future as House speaker is already prompting closed-door talk among House Republicans about who’d take over if he steps aside or is spurned by archconservatives.
Tuesday, October 25, 2016 - 9:00 a.m.
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has shifted his entire campaign theme to the “rigged establishment”.
By Alicia Robinson / Staff Writer
Oct. 24, 2016 - Updated 6:03 p.m.
With the presidential election coming on the heels of Halloween, Hillary Clintons and Donald Trumps may be as common as superheroes and zombies on Oct. 31.
By Jeff Horseman / Staff Writer
Published: Oct. 21, 2016
Updated: Oct. 22, 2016 - 9:21 a.m.
Loyalty isn’t just an expectation in the Riverside County Republican Party. It’s a rule.
By Jeff Horseman / Staff Writer
Published: Oct. 20, 2016 - 2:56 p.m.
We have a new entry in the race for the ugliest Inland political contest of 2016.
Capitol Alert
By Jeremy B. White
[email protected]
October 19, 2016 - 12:01 AM
The question for California legislative races is no longer whether Democrats will secure a majority. It’s how large their margin will be.
By Jeff Horseman / Staff Writer
Published: Oct. 12, 2016 - Updated: 10:00 p.m.
There’s more at stake in California’s 40th Assembly District than incumbent Marc Steinorth’s political career.
By Ryan Hagen, The Sun
Posted: 10/12/16 - 11:29 PM PDT |
As Election Day approaches, some candidates have been skipping the debates that give voters the chance to hear directly from them.
By Jeff Horseman, The Press-Enterprise
and Martin Wisckol, The Orange County Register
Posted: 10/10/16 - 8:58 PM PDT |
With one exception, Republican elected officials and candidates in Southern California continue to stand by Donald Trump despite his comments about women in 2005 that were widely condemned as boasting about sexual assault.
By Beau Yarbrough, Inland Valley Daily Bulletin
Posted: 10/08/16, 12:34 AM PDT |
Last Friday night at midnight, Gov. Jerry Brown dropped his still-smoking veto pen, the 2016 California legislative session at an end.
By Steve Peoples and Jill Colvin
Oct. 8, 2016 - 12:39 PM EDT
NEW YORK (AP) — A defiant Donald Trump insisted Saturday he would “never” abandon his White House bid, facing an intensifying backlash from Republican leaders across the nation who called on him to quit the race following the release of his vulgar and sexually charged comments caught on tape.
By Jeff Horseman / Staff Writer
Published: Oct. 4, 2016 - Updated: 4:13 p.m.
The acrimony continues in California’s 31st Congressional District, with the campaign of Democratic incumbent Pete Aguilar trying to link Republican Paul Chabot to Donald Trump and Chabot accusing Aguilar of using Chabot’s children in a smear attempt.
Tuesday, September 27, 2016 - 09:00 a.m.
The first presidential debate is in the books and Republican Donald Trump let some great chances go by. But he didn’t screw-up.
Monday, September 26, 2016 - 09:00 a.m.
The first of three presidential debates between Democrat Nominee Hillary Rodham Clinton Republican Nominee Donald J. Trump will take place at Hofstra University in Hempstead, New York on Monday night.
Thank God!
Electoral Mapmaking
Oct 03, 2016 | By Jeffrey H. Anderson
One of the most pervasive myths in American politics is that a “Big Blue Wall” will protect Democratic presidential nominees, perhaps even those who lose the popular vote. In truth, this electoral Blue Wall is more like a collection of disconnected forts—some imposing, some not—and the loss of any one of them would likely doom the Democratic nominee.
Monday, September 19, 2016 - 08:30 a.m.
Republican Presidential Nominee Donald Trump has taken his widest lead yet in the Los Angeles Times/USC Dornsife Daily Tracking Poll of a pool of approximately 3,000 likely voters nationwide.
By Willie Brown
September 17, 2016
Updated: September 17, 2016 - 11:00pm
GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump is gaining in the polls as the first presidential debate nears.
By Jeff Horseman, The Press-Enterprise
Posted: 09/09/16 - 10:34 PM PDT |
Election Day is almost two months away, but there’s already a front-runner for the ugliest Inland political contest of 2016.
By Abby Phillip
September 9, 2016 at 10:38 PM
Hillary Clinton said Friday that “half” of Donald Trump’s supporters could be grouped in “the basket of deplorables” at a fundraising event in New York City.
By Jeff Horseman / Staff Writer
Published: Sept. 7, 2016
Updated: Sept. 8, 2016 - 6:27 a.m.
Nathan Miller has a new job.
The Riverside County Community College District trustee, who sent two tweets featuring a noose-holding hangman and the words “I’m Ready for Hillary,” has agreed to become campaign manager for Riverside County supervisor candidate Shellie Milne, who confirmed his hiring Wednesday afternoon, Sept. 7.
Wednesday, September 7, 2016 - 08:30 a.m.
Make no mistake. First District San Bernardino County Supervisor Robert Lovingood will likely be shown the door in November.
By Jeff Horseman / Staff Writer
Published: Sept. 6, 2016 - 10:00 a.m.
The candidates in the competitive race for California’s 40th Assembly District are using video to tout their strengths to voters ahead of the Nov. 8 election.
To read expanded article, click here.
By Sarah D. Wire
September 5, 2016
With just over a month left before California starts sending out vote by mail ballots, congressional races are starting to heat up.
By Gabriel Debenedetti
09/04/16 - 07:11 AM EDT
The final stretch of the longest presidential campaign in history opens this week. Think it’s been ugly? You’ve seen nothing yet.
By Louis Nelson
08/31/16 - 06:47 PM EDT
After weeks of slipping in the polls, Donald Trump is narrowing the advantage Hillary Clinton built in the wake of last month’s nominating conventions, a new Fox News poll of registered voters shows.
By Reid Wilson - 09/01/16 06:00 AM EDT
Pollsters are debating whether Donald Trump’s “silent majority” of voters exists, and are scrambling to make sure that their surveys reflect the opinions of voters who might not ordinarily be included in opinion polls.
Wednesday, August 31, 2016 - 09:00 a.m.
Players in the Democrat party, talking heads and the so-called GOP establishment (What remains of it!) are starting to up their chorus and pitch as Democrat Nominee Hillary Clinton’s lead rapidly evaporates.
By Jeff Horseman / Staff Writer
Published: Aug. 26, 2016 - Updated: 6:06 p.m.
Inland Rep. Pete Aguilar’s campaign took aim at his GOP opponent’s recordkeeping as the first-term Democratic incumbent went on the attack in the race for a San Bernardino County congressional seat.
Brian Bennett and
David Lauter
August 21, 2016 - 3:17 P.M.
Reporting from Washington-
Donald Trump has gained ground against Hillary Clinton, according to the latest findings from the USC Dornsife/Los Angeles Times national tracking poll of the presidential race.
Associated Press
Posted: 08/18/2016 - 02:07:36 PM PDT
Updated: 08/18/2016 - 02:10:22 PM PDT
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — New data show nearly 18.1 million Californians are registered to vote, the second-highest statewide voter registration total ever.
By JEFF HORSEMAN / STAFF WRITER
Published: Aug. 17, 2016 Updated: 4:05 p.m.
Unless it’s an ultra-competitive toss-up race, there’s typically not a lot of publicly available polling for congressional elections.
By Jeff Horseman / Staff Writer
Published: Aug. 13, 2016 - Updated: 10:04 p.m.
For the first time in recent memory and perhaps history, the number of registered Democratic voters in Riverside County outnumbers the ranks of registered Republican voters.
Saturday, August 6, 2016 - 10:30 a.m.
It’s been a rough two weeks for Republican Donald Trump.
But he’s far from out of the contest. Especially when Hillary Clinton is the opponent.
By Jeff Horseman / Staff Writer
Published: Aug. 4, 2016 - Updated: 7:01 p.m.
An Inland Republican Party official resigned from his state government job Thursday, Aug. 4, a day after he sent tweets from the party’s official Twitter account that featured a menacing hangman and the words “I’m Ready for Hillary.”