Fiona Ma maintains a fundraising advantage in California’s 2026 Lieutenant Governor race as Josh Fryday, Michael Tubbs, Brian Dahle, and Gloria Romero compete for a top-two finish in the June 2 primary.

A federal three-judge panel this week upheld California’s Proposition 50, clearing the way for the state to use newly drawn congressional maps in the 2026 election cycle. But a sharp dissent from a Trump-appointed judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has now put the case on a potential collision course with the U.S. Supreme Court.