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Nov 11, 2020 · In 2016, for the first time in 80 years, Orange County’s voters opted for a Democratic presidential candidate, Hillary Clinton, and two years later showed their disdain for Trump again by ousting several Republican congressional members.
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Oct 31, 2016 · After the party closely tied itself to Proposition 187, a controversial California ballot measure that denied public services to people in the country illegally, Republicans struggled to win...
Jan 3, 2020 · The 1964 presidential campaign of “Mister Conservative” Republican Barry Goldwater helped to further galvanize the conservative movement in Orange County. Goldwater signaled a shift away from the moderate Republicanism of Dwight Eisenhower and (definitely) from the liberalism of John F. Kennedy.
Republican majorities in Orange County helped deliver California's electoral votes to Republican nominees Richard Nixon in 1960, 1968, and 1972; Gerald Ford in 1976; Reagan in 1980 and 1984; and George H. W. Bush in 1988. It was one of five counties in the state that voted for Barry Goldwater in 1964.
Aug 7, 2019 · In 1999, in fact, Orange County was the only county in California to have a Republican majority among its registered voters. There were, that year, 11 counties that were majority-Democrat.
Mar 2, 2024 · Orange County was a Republican stronghold for decades, but over recent elections it’s become a battleground section in California.
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Sep 29, 2019 · The mortification of the GOP on its home turf came due to two primary factors: an influx of young and Latino voters who have diluted the power of the white conservatives who long defined the...
