Californians undecided in governor’s race, prefer Newsom over Harris for president

According to a survey published by UC Berkeley and Los Angeles Times on Tuesday, former Vice President Kamala Harris’s decision to run for the governor of California created a wide race to carry out the most populous state in the next year.

Approximately 4 of the 10 registered voters participating in the survey, 2026 competition, Gov. He said they were not sure who would support the 2026 competition to replace Gavin Newsom.

“Most of the voters, plurality in this questionnaire is undecided, Mark Most of the voters are undecided, Mark said Mark Dicamillo, director of the questionnaire, which was sponsored by Times and sponsored by Times. “They don’t know much about the candidates.”

Among those with preference, Katie Porter, former democratic representative of Irvine, had a small advantage as the best choice with 17%support. Riverside County Sharif Chad Bianco was the only other candidate to win the republican, double -digit support and 10% of the participants.

Dicamillo warned that Porter’s unsuccessful 2024 US Senate campaign increased the recognition of California voters among California voters, but more than nine months before 2 June, a small, early leader. According to the survey, Bianco’s support was guided by voters focusing on perennial concerns between crime and public security, taxes and budget deficit, GOP voters.

Other best candidates for the governor – former US Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Being, former Mayor of Los Angeles Antonio Villaraigosa, former state legislative leader Toni Atkins, California Supt. Public instruction Tony Thurmond, former state controller Betty Yee, rich businessman Stephen Cloobeck and conservative commentator Steve Hilton-selections in the survey was the first choice of single-digit support. A few potential candidates, billionaire Los Angeles businessman Rick Caruso, former Trump management official Ric Grerell and the old GOP state Sen. He had single -digit support, including Brian Dahle.

Since the poll announced that Harris would not run for the governor in 2026 in late July, the former vice president has been among the first independent public surveys since he announced that if the former vice president is expected to be widely dominant, it will be widely reshaped.. The questionnaire also took place after leaving the competition to run to this month’s state Treasurer by Lieutenant Gov Eleni.

“Quite wide open, Dic Dicamillo said. “And when you look at the second choice of the first and second choice together, gathered together.”

When the voters were asked to rankings for the first two options, Porter received 22% as the first or second election, skill 18%, Bianco 15% and Hilton 12%.

None of the running politicians are well known by California compared to the last three governors of the state: the former mayor of San Francisco, who has positioned himself as a foil to President Trump for two terms as the governor, and the governor of the lieutenant; The old two -term Gov, who left a deleted impressor in the history of California with his father, with his father. Jerry Brown; And former Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, a global celebrity, who returned to Hollywood after leaving his post, has initiated efforts to fight climate change and support independent redistribution throughout the country.

A dominant question is whether a campaign has the ability to finance self -finance, whether someone else entered the race. The deadline to be run for the seat is March 6.

Those chosen as the next governor of California will face a difficult mission to fight a voter who looks at the state’s next leader to resolve the most hostile Trump administration and the most urgent concerns.

According to the questionnaire, economic issues are in mind among all registered voters, 36% say the biggest concerns of the cost of living and 25% focus on the residence of the housing. However, there were sharp partisan inequalities on other issues. While the Democrats were more concerned about democracy, climate change and health services, the Republicans gave priority to crime, taxes and migration.

Two of the leading democrats of California, Newsom and Harris, for a long time based on the roots of the Gulf region, and both are seen as the Potential 2028 presidential candidate.

According to the survey, a potential White House has an advantage of Harris among the California and the state democrats of news.

Approximately 45% of the registered voters of the state, compared to 36% of Harris, 36%, said they were very or a little enthusiastic about the Newsom Run. In addition, about two-thirds of registered voters and 51% of the democrats said that Harris should not preside again after two unsuccessful White House proposals in the general elections in 2020 and 2024.

Dicamillo said, “He lost, always negative trying to run again,” he said. “Even after Harris leaves the governor’s race, most California do not think he should run for the Presidency.”

While describing Newsom’s support as a “mixed bag ör from the registered voters of the state, Dicamillo pointed to its power among the Democrats. Approximately 7 of the 10 registered democratic voters in the state, compared to 54% of Harris, said that they were very or a little enthusiastic about the work of Newsom for the President.

The questionnaire took place in a turbulent period, because Trump’s extreme right policies begins to take steps.

In health care, nutrition, reproductive rights and other federal security net programs, harsh interruptions are expected to affect Californials in a disrepare manner. The aggressive migration raids of the Trump administration in Los Angeles and the state and the country have led to the expansion of the partisan division of the country, which arises from the decision of the President’s decision to deploy the army and targeting all undocumented immigrants, including unlawful workers. Higher educational institutions throughout the country were targeted by the Trump administration, including the UCLA, which was threatened with a fine of $ 1 billion.

California, the democratic state deputies, who tried to fight the agenda of the Trump administration, was recently investigated, on Thursday, the state called a special election in November to redress the congress regions of the state. Both sides opposed Gerrymandering efforts in Texas and other GOP -led countries while fighting for the control of the Congress in the next year’s mid -elections.

Berkeley IGS questionnaire investigated 4,950 California voters on 11-17 August online as English and Spanish. In the general example, the results are estimated to have 2 percent points in both directions and larger numbers for sub -groups.