According to this story, Antonio Villaraigosa, who has been excluded from the California gubernatorial debate of March 24, will sue the debate organizers if the organizers don’t expand the list of invited candidates.
Villaraigosa is a former Speaker of the California Assembly and a former two-term Mayor of Los Angeles. His attorney is Eric George of Los Angeles.
On March 17, Ohio Governor Mike DeWine signed SB 63, the bill that prohibits any local government from using Ranked Choice Voting for elections for its own officers.
The New Jersey Supreme Court refused to hear the fusion lawsuit, In re Tom Malinowski, on December 9, 2025. The plaintiffs asked for rehearing on January 9, 2026. The State Supreme Court hasn’t yet responded. Usually courts deny requests for rehearing within a few weeks.
This news story about the Libertarian Party’s Montana candidates notes that there is a contested Libertarian primary for U.S. Senate.
On March 18, a UC Berkeley/Los Angeles Times poll was released for the California gubernatorial race. Like the preceding polls, it shows that Xavier Becerra is ahead of Matt Mahan. Yet the upcoming March 24 gubernatorial debate, sponsored by USC, includes Mahan and excludes Becerra. The poll shows Becerra at 5% and Mahan at 4%. Antonio Villaraigosa, another excluded candidate, is also at 4%.
See this story about the new poll. The new poll shows the two Republicans in first and second place.
