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TALLAHASSEE, FL — After an election night in which the Sunshine State successfully tallied all its votes within hours of the polls closing, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis explained to California Governor Gavin Newsom that the secret to counting ballots in one night is not committing fraud.

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Current polling shows a voter ID ballot measure could be headed for defeat in California even as the policy is overwhelmingly popular nationwide.

A Berkeley University Institute for Governmental Studies poll shows that a slim majority of Californians, 51%, oppose Proposition 39, a ballot measure to adopt voter ID. Just 42% support it, still leaving a sizeable number of undecided voters.

Though some national polls show more than 80% of Americans back voter ID, support for Prop 39 breaks down along party lines in California, with 80% of Democrats opposed and 93% of Republicans supportive.

Currently, 36 states require that voters provide some form of identification such as a utility bill, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures. Twenty-three of those states require government-issued photo ID to vote. California does not require voter identification, but Prop 39 would mandate government-issued photo ID to vote.

A Fox News poll in July found 83% support for voter ID, including 93% of Republicans, 74% of Democrats, even 66% of voters who self-identified with the Democratic Socialists of America. The policy also received support from 84% of non-white voters, 83% of white voters, and 85% of Hispanic voters.

A Napolitan News Service poll in February found 81% support for voter ID. A Pew Research Center poll in August 2025 found 83% of adults strongly or somewhat favoring voter ID overall.

On Tuesday, California Democrat lawmakers, including U.S. Sen. Alex Padilla, Assembly Speaker Robert Rivas, and Senate President pro Tem Monique Limón, gathered in Sacramento for a rally opposed to voter ID, claiming it was “voter suppression.”

The California poll showed that 56% of voters were aware of the ballot initiative. However, most voters seemed to view it through a partisan lens, noted Eric Schickler, co-director of the Institute of Governmental Studies at the University of California, Berkeley, in a public statement.

Schickler noted that the same poll found a closer contest for Proposition 40, a 5% billionaire’s tax opposed by some elected Democrats who warn of a negative economic impact. Nearly half of respondents, 48%, favor the tax, and 41% oppose.

“By contrast, foes of the Voter ID initiative have already started to solidify making it a more typical Democratic-Republican fight, in which Democrats in California generally hold the advantage,” Schickler said.

The poll also showed the voter ID measure performed poorly among women under 40, black voters, and voters living in a union household.

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Florida's DSA Senate candidate Angie Nixon has a history of outlandish statements, including praising a Marxist cop killer while campaigning in a church and admitting to taking her children to drag shows, calling them "wholesome" entertainment.

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When a California couple wanted their surrogate, McKenna West, to abort the baby she was carrying, she fled to Texas. There, pro-life laws and Attorney General Ken Paxton helped save the baby, ensuring he got the care he needed.

But as Democrat state Rep. James Talarico challenges Paxton for Senate, it raises the question—what would Talarico do?

West, an Alaska nurse and single mother of two, agreed to serve as a surrogate for Californians Omar Ahmed and Nausheen Gilkar. At the 20-week anatomy scan, doctors diagnosed the baby boy with hypoplastic left heart syndrome, a serious but treatable condition. The couple asked West to get a late-term abortion, and she scheduled it—but later felt convicted and canceled.

After West refused the abortion, the couple stopped paying and sued her. She named the baby Gabriel and sought custody so he could receive the life-saving surgery he needed. The couple had reportedly not indicated they would allow doctors to perform the surgeries. West traveled to Texas, where the state’s pro-life laws protect Gabriel. Paxton secured an emergency order demanding Dallas hospitals provide life-saving care. The next day, on Aug. 12, the baby was born safely. On Aug. 17, he received the first surgery to correct his heart condition. While Gabriel is alive, a judge issued a restraining order against West, and he was given to his purchasers. Those purchasers are reportedly suing West for $100,000 for not aborting the baby.

West took a courageous stand to save baby Gabriel’s life. And Paxton’s swift action protected them.

As Talarico challenges Paxton for Senate, his past comments on abortion suggest he may not have been so kind.

“Jesus never talks about abortion,” Talarico said on a recent podcast. “The Bible is silent on abortion. And when that happens with a social issue as important as abortion, we Christians have to take scripture as a whole.”

Apparently, Talarico’s Presbyterian seminary never taught him the Sixth Commandment: “You shall not murder.” Or Psalm 139:13-14—“For you formed my inward parts; you knitted me together in my mother’s womb. I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made.”

To justify abortion, he even pointed to the biblical account where the angel Gabriel told Mary she would give birth to Jesus. (The angel shares a name with the baby McKenna West saved). “To me, that is an affirmation in one of our most central stories that creation has to be done with consent,” he said. “You cannot force someone to create.”

Apparently, Talarico views the birth of Jesus like the Californian parents view baby Gabriel—emphasizing not the miracle, but the consensual contract.

In 2021, he voted against a bill that would ban abortions by mail and protect unborn babies after 7 weeks. At that point, the baby is already developing vital organs, arms, legs, nostrils, and eyes.

In 2022, Talarico proposed an amendment to stop Texas lawmakers from passing any more pro-life laws without a popular vote. And in 2024, he was endorsed by Planned Parenthood Texas Votes for the primary and general election.

Talarico claimed that those who see the human dignity of unborn babies simply want to control women. “I think that’s what we see across this Christian nationalist movement,” he said on Joe Rogan’s podcast. “This is religion at its worst: trying to control people and what they do.”

The Daily Signal reached out to Talarico’s spokesman several times but did not hear back in time for publication.

Had Texas leadership followed Talarico’s approach of disregarding the unborn baby’s rights, the story of baby Gabriel could have ended very differently. Gabriel could have undergone a late-term abortion—injecting poison to stop his heart, then ripping him apart.

Texas saved this precious baby. But Talarico’s track record suggests he might not have.

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