February 18, 2026

Keep This Up ‘Til June And We’ll Get the State Golden Again

By Drew Hayes

Updated: Brand new Emerson poll has Steve Hilton at the top with the former erotic poet Swalwell in between Hilton and number three finisher Chad Bianco. Read more here

From KTLA:

CA Governors Poll 2026 Fin ktla

 

Polling of the race to be Governor has, for weeks, seen the top two choices as the Republican candidates, Steve Hilton and Chad Bianco. Now a poll commissioned by former Biden cabinet member Xavier Becerra (or Bacaria as Biden called him) has the two GOPers followed by an ever more splintering field with the guy who paid the piper, er pollster, coming in at a nearly-anonymous 6%

Ballots go out roughly May 5th. The clock is ticking for the Dems.

Read more here

2.17.26 poll

• Becerra (Dem) internal | 2/2-5 • Tavern Research | 1,097 LV | ±3.3%@IAPolls2022

 

 

About the Author

Drew Hayes
Chief Content Officer