LOS ANGELES — As California officials prepare to defend their climate policies from a potential second Donald Trump administration, a new reality is dawning on them: Trump may have already won.

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POLITICO’s E&E News’ report found that, to influence his decisions, officials showed Trump that heavily damaged Orange County, California, had more Trump supporters than the entire state of Iowa.

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Nearly three-quarters of the California electorate plans to vote for a high-profile ballot measure that would increase penalties for some theft- and drug-related crimes, according to a new poll ...

SANTA CRUZ, California — A California surfing idyll may determine whether soda is poised to go the way of Big Tobacco, banished to the outskirts of modern consumption habits. Over the past ...

“It is good to make history, in some ways, because hopefully you knock down the door and somebody can see themselves in you,” Blunt Rochester told POLITICO in late September. “It can’t be the sole ...

SAN FRANCISCO — Elon Musk’s relationship with California has always been complicated — but Musk’s MAGAfication has made it downright rancorous. The tech executive amassed the world’s ...

Supporters of same-sex marriage in California are trying to pull off a redo of 2008 — in more ways than one. First, they want voters to approve Proposition 3, a ballot measure that would ...

Trump, who had swapped his usual red Make America Great Again cap for a black and gold one, proceeded to assert that ...

Now, Prop 1 appears to be a liability for Democrats on Election Day — especially in one of the state’s most competitive House ...