Florida is winning the political battle with California as Trump takes office

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

61% : But many of the nation's biggest business titans are making their own pilgrimages -- to visit Trump at his home in Florida.
53% : Trump is stocking his Cabinet with Floridians.
53% : "We can and will prevail, and we have prevailed in front of the U.S. Supreme Court," he said.Bonta, who is considering a run for governor in 2026, argued that voters were choosing Trump the man -- narrowly -- rather than a single state's governing model.
48% : The rivalry between California and Florida reached a high mark in November 2023 when Gov. Gavin Newsom, a Democrat, faced off against Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, a Republican, on Fox News over which state held a better model for the country.Thirteen months later, DeSantis has left the national stage after an aborted presidential run.
48% : California's long-beleaguered Republicans are gloating as they promise to work with Trump to dismantle Democratic-led projects and environmental regulations.
45% : But Trump has picked staffers for his second term who are less likely to push back against his wishes.
45% : Rep. Vince Fong, a Bakersfield Republican who won an election to succeed former Republican Speaker Kevin McCarthy earlier this year, said he will file legislation to halt funding on California's high-speed rail project and work with Trump to build a border wall in the state, blaming a porous border for allowing fentanyl-smuggling from China.
41% : Trump, meanwhile, has vowed to fight the state this time on a variety of fronts, including its homeless policies, its resistance to a border wall, its electric car mandate and over his plans to begin mass deportations that would disproportionately affect California, a border state with the nation's largest Latino population.
31% : The Supreme Court has grown more deferential to Trump, who appointed three of its nine members.
26% : A formal program sending immigrants across the country as political pawns?"But Bonta and other Democrats concede the party just lost an election and that Trump, even as he lost California by 20 percentage points, gained about 10 percentage points over his 2016 and 2020 margins in the state.
14% : Two prominent people in Trump's orbit with California ties, advisors Elon Musk and Stephen Miller, are sharp critics of the state's business and immigration policies, which they have pledged to help Trump reverse.
8% : Former Sen. Barbara Boxer, a Democrat who helped define the party's liberal wing for decades, argues that Trump will incite his own backlash by overreaching.

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