How I think the CA GOP should rebuild

[Blair]

Yeah I mean imo these all things that are easy to write down but are much harder to actually do.

It's like trying to get the Democrats to be competitive in Idaho or Wymoning. Focusing on local issues is great for running for the school board but voters are actually smart enough to know where they want an ideological indivual in office.

The bottom was falling out even in 2010; Steve Cooley pretty much had the perfect race & still lost (albeit it narrowly) If a popular republican can't win a wave year against an unpopular opponent (iirc Harris was seen as weak in 2010) then it's made even harder by hyper-partisianship and the below...

If I'm someone who is engaged, community minded & wants to run for office & if I'm moderate enough to win surely I'd run as a democrat? You saw it imo in the deep south where a lot of people who ran in the 70s,80s & even 90s weren't actually democrats but knew that that was their best route to being an elected offical.

This is made even harder when the pool of activists who run local parties are relatively conservative & the pool of primary voters are even more conservative republicans you just don't have the power to flip a switch.

[Blair]

Besides wasn't the GOP in CA pretty much doing what it needed to do before Trump; sending what 10+ republican members to the House?

It should be a lot easier for them to win back these seats; in the same way it was a lot easier for the democrats to win back seats in red states before they come close to winning statewide.