New GOP Chairwoman immediately differentiated herself from Patterson
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The California Republican Party just elected Corrin Rankin as its new chairwoman. Despite some dirty rumors and tactics, Rankin garnered 747 votes ahead of the 559 for former State Senator Mike Morrell.
“Change is coming to California. It’s time to end the Democratic Party rule and make California great again,” Rankin said following her election. In an interview with Eytan Wallace. She immediately differentiated herself from Patterson saying she hopes people look beyond her race and gender. “It doesn’t matter if you’re a man or a woman or what color your skin is or what your background is, as long as you are qualified for the role.” She said we need to look past skin color and instead focus on qualifications and results. The interview is worth watching.
From Corrin Rankin’s bio:
“Growing up in Menlo Park, Corrin Rankin started working at a young age in her father’s bail bonds business, which he founded in 1968. She would later take over the family business after working for almost a decade with some of Silicon Valley’s leading tech companies.
In 2016, Corrin served as an on-air surrogate for the Trump for President campaign and as a whip for Mr. Trump at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland, Ohio. As the 2016 statewide coalition director for African Americans for Trump, Corrin was at the outset of a movement that would propel Donald Trump to the White House in 2016 and again in 2024.
Corrin was elected as California Republican Party Central Valley Vice Chair in 2021.
Elected as California Republican Party Vice Chair in 2023, Corrin has spent the last two years traveling throughout California, assisting with voter registration, fundraising, supporting Republican candidates, and growing the party. She also served as a national surrogate for President Trump’s 2024 campaign, ensuring that Republican values and conservative principles continue to gain ground in the state.
Corrin knows that the future of the California Republican Party depends on results, not rhetoric. By applying her private-sector problem-solving approach, she is committed to replicating the Central Valley’s successful Republican model statewide. Her vision is clear: build an organization that doesn’t just react but proactively builds a pathway to victory for Republicans up and down the ballot.
“Results, not rhetoric” is something everyone is eager for.
Outgoing California Republican Party Chairwoman Jessica Patterson is taking credit again for registering 1 million new California Republicans to vote. The credit goes to Ric Grenell and Fix California.
But that didn’t stop Patterson this weekend at her personal farewell tour at the CAGOP Convention.
At a Saturday morning meeting she held with members of the press, Patterson said she “registered over 1 million Republicans since 2019.”
The real story is that since 2021, Ric Grenell, former Ambassador to Germany, former Director of National Intelligence, and President Donald Trump’s Presidential Envoy for Special Missions, has been diligently working on a long term plan to “Fix California,” identifying and registering unregistered conservative voters in the one-party Democrat Supermajority state of California, the Globe reported in August.
“Fix California is committed to pursuing longterm solutions that advance conservative ideas and causes throughout the state,” Grenell told the Globe in 2021 when he first launched Fix California. The Globe has been reporting on Fix California since Grenell first launched it.
In August, we reported on Rob Pyers’ amazement at the increase in Republican registrations. Piers, Research Director for the non-partisan California Target Book, posted on X:
Between 2/20 and 7/5, Republicans (again) increased their share of registered voters in every assembly, state senate, and congressional district, & all 58 counties, per @CASoSVote‘s first voter registration report update since February. https://sos.ca.gov/elections/report-registration/123day-gen-2024
Speaking and hearing from so many in the MAGA universe, there is YUGE disappointment that former State Senator Mike Morrell was not elected chair of the CAGOP … disappointment but not surprise. The CAGOP is as establishment as you can get.
Electing Corrin Rankin, formerly vice chair, is on a par with electing a vice president as president. It was the Patterson/Rankin administration (just as it was the Biden/Harris administration).
Besides Patterson claiming responsibility for registering 1 million Republicans when at least some of the credit goes to Ric Grenell and his FIX CALIFORNIA plan, the entire CAGOP misses WHY so many people came to the Republican Party: DONALD TRUMP!
The CAGOP (and local GOPs) keep touting how much of California moved to the right in the 2024 election. Much of California moved to TRUMP in the 2024 election.
Talk to America First Patriots and you will discover their loyalty is to Donald Trump and J.D. Vance. It is not to the Republican Party.
Bottom line until the CAGOP moves to the right I will not donate or renew my membership.
One only has to look at the destructive and horrible “top two” elections that have blocked out any party or person from making major impacts on the political scene in Kalif.
Look at what happened to the Green Party! They are no longer even close to having any serious input to the arm twisting and often lying Democrat elite (aka weeeny and slick).
Geez, when are the supposed Capitalist / Small government activists? They should be in the Republican Party. The see lack of back bone and too often are now the ineffectual decline to state.