Jim Brulte hopes to keep a job few would envy: As chairman of the California Republican Party, he’s tasked with trying to steer his party out of the wilderness in one of the bluest states in the nation. Jerry Brown and the Democratic-controlled state Legislature, Brulte and other state Republican leaders said. In the California Legislature, Republicans account for 32% of lawmakers and Democrats account for 68%. “They’re largely student body president contests,” Rexroad said of local elections. “The Republican Party in California did not get in trouble in one election,” Brulte said.

Source: Los Angeles Times February 24, 2017 08:07 UTC