All the polls were wrong.  One of the polls had Donald Trump at 32% in Utah with a narrow, two point lead.  But he won the state with over 50% of the vote and more than a 25 point lead.  Wow.  That was a bad poll!

Here is another “wow” from the media, a headline from a column by Clarence Page in the Chicago Tribune: “Donald Trump is insulting his way down a losing path.”  Page wrote on August 12, “At least, the man — who proudly declared, “I’m so tired of this politically correct crap,” to a cheering crowd in South Carolina last September — may be learning the hard way that manners still do matter in politics. You can’t insult your way to the White House, Jeb Bush told Trump in a primary debate, but Trump is still trying.”  Hindsight now may reveal to Page perhaps a different reality.  That was no losing path…

Because Donald Trump tapped into an understandable anger shared by 75% of the electorate that the nation is moving in the wrong direction.  With so many Americans yearning for a change, why shouldn’t Trump have won the election, as the representative of change?

Trump’s vote, even in victory, was probably suppressed by a biased media.  The fact is the mainstream media did much to try to “rig” the election unfairly against Donald Trump.  Wikileaks and other disclosures revealed again and again the transgression of journalist ethics: CNN’s Donna Brazile gave debate questions, twice, to Hillary Clinton in advance.  CNBC’s John Harwood, a debate moderator, coordinated his reporting with John Podesta, Clinton’s campaign chairman.  Steve Harvey gave questions for his program to Hillary Clinton in advance.  It went on and on and on…

Nevertheless, we have a new Republican President, who has the benefit of Republican majorities in both houses of Congress, and a chance to remake the Supreme Court for decades to come.  Liberals will shudder, but there is no more gridlock in Washington, D.C.  That is President Trump.

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks to supporters as he takes the stage for a campaign event in Dallas, Monday, Sept. 14, 2015. (AP Photo/LM Otero)

Successful Californians must pay over 50% of their income at the top marginal rates in state and federal income taxes.  That’s right – Obama’s tax hike created a 39% top Federal income tax bracket, and combined with California’s top of the nation 13% plus, our state’s most successful citizens aren’t working for themselves anymore, they are working for the government when they hit the top brackets.

But the “California Tax Hike Industry” isn’t satisfied.  In the upcoming election, they want even more taxes.  They want to keep California’s sales and income taxes the highest in the nation by urging voters to vote “Yes” on Proposition 55.  They want even more “consumption” taxes on cigarettes by urging a “Yes” vote on Proposition 56.  And more sinisterly, the California Tax Hike Industry has qualified about 200 local measures that ask voters to raise their property taxes (“for the kids” but really for the California Teachers Association who already benefit from high wages and great pension plans), raise and extend sales taxes (claiming the funds will fix roads, roads that should have been fixed in the first place but for overpaying civil servants and overly generous pensions), raise hotel taxes, raise parcel taxes, you name it, the professional tax raisers are really at it in this election.

Californians must simply say “No” to all these taxes!

Californians are already among the most heavily taxed citizens in the nation.  Should Prop. 55 pass, that will continue, and things will only get worse should all the other local tax measures pass, driving up local sales taxes and property taxes even higher.  Already considered an inhospitable place for businesses to locate and for successful people to live in (other than for the fine weather and lifestyle – if you can afford it), all these new taxes will guarantee that California continues to have the highest poverty rate in the nation, as it has for the last two years, when cost-of-living is factored.  And can you imagine what successful people in California (the people who create jobs) will pay in taxes if Hillary Clinton is elected, and hikes yet again the Federal marginal tax rate above the Obama levels?

In the upcoming election, we may not have clear choices on many of the candidates on the ballot, but one thing is for sure: the last thing California needs is more taxes!!  Just say “No” to them!!

“Two Americas – Economy” – New TV advertisement from Trump for President.  See it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4obk0P2YCFg&feature=youtu.be

The Trump campaign has just spent nearly $5 million on its first television advertisement of the campaign focusing on immigration, a major issue for Trump.  The advertisement will start airing immediately and for the next ten days in Ohio, Pennsylvania, North Carolina and Florida.  You can see it here:

Click: Trump immigration reform TV commercial

The polls this season have been as much a seesaw as the Presidential campaign itself.  Of course – because the polls reflect the changing dynamics of voter attitudes; and the polls are showing Donald Trump is trending back into the lead of the race right now.  On Friday July 8, the highly respected Rasmussen Reports released their new poll showing Trump at 40% nationwide, followed by Clinton at 38% and the third-party candidate, Johnson at 9%.   While the poll has a margin of error of 3%, it suggests Trump is trending back towards the first place position in the race and that Clinton’s prior weeks’ leads have been erased, perhaps because of negative reaction to the recent disclosures of mishandling of sensitive national security information regarding her email scandal.

Rasmussen also reported a decline in President Obama’s job approval, with 50% of the public now disapproving his actions as President and 49% approving.  Polling occurred July 5-7 and before the tragic police shootings in Dallas so public opinion of Obama on that is not reflected in the latest Rasmussen Report, but the disapproval rate on Obama is consistent with an Economist poll taken July 2-4 showing Obama had a 51% job disapproval rate and a 45% approval rate.

California’s delegates and alternates to the next Republican National Convention, all of whom will be Trump delegates as a result of his big statewide victory in the presidential primary, will meet on Saturday, June 25 near Los Angeles International Airport to organize themselves before the Cleveland convention.  The convention will occur at the downtown Quicken Arena from July 18-22.  California will send 172 delegates and the same number of alternates to the Republican Convention, and will be the largest single delegation to the event.  Delegates all serve as volunteers and are responsible for their own hotel and travel expenses.  The complete list of Trump delegates from the California Secretary of State’s website can be seen here near the end of the document: http://elections.cdn.sos.ca.gov//statewide-elections/2016-primary/republican-delegates.pdf

Donald J. Trump, who has just clinched the nomination of the Republican Party for President, is actually barnstorming California!  In a state where Mitt Romney lost to Obama in 2012 by 24 points, and where John McCain lost in 2008 to Obama by 23 points, Trump is within 10 points of Clinton in California in a recent PPIC poll and Trump says he will contest Clinton here!  And Clinton, who may lose her own primary to Sanders, has not even been forced by Sanders to defend her email scandal!  The Trump campaign will likely add new locations for more rallies in the Bay Area, Los Angeles and Sacramento next week.  You can watch for final schedules and register for tickets to the events here: https://www.donaldjtrump.com/schedule/

Donald J. Trump, who has just clinched the nomination of the Republican Party for President, is actually barnstorming California!  In a state where Mitt Romney lost to Obama in 2012 by 24 points, and where John McCain lost in 2008 to Obama by 23 points, Trump is within 10 points of Clinton in California in a recent PPIC poll and Trump says he will contest Clinton here!  And Clinton, who may lose her own primary to Sanders, has not even been forced by Sanders to defend her email scandal!  The Trump campaign will likely add new locations for more rallies in the Bay Area, Los Angeles and Sacramento next week.  You can watch for final schedules and register for tickets to the events here: https://www.donaldjtrump.com/schedule/

The California GOP will be welcoming the three presidential candidates at its convention at the Grand Hyatt in Burlingame on Friday/Sunday April 29-May 1.  Donald J. Trump, the current leader in California GOP polls, will be the keynote speaker at a luncheon starting the event off on Friday.  Ohio Governor John Kasich will speak at the Friday night dinner, and Senator Ted Cruz will speak at a luncheon the next day.  GOP and Faith & Family Leader Ralph Reed will lead a Prayer Breakfast on the Sunday morning.  All VIP receptions are already sold out!  For more information visit: https://www.cagop.org/convention/