Orange County, Rancho Santa Margarita Represented at Republican National Convention

RANCHO SANTA MARGARITA, CA—All 172 California delegates are rallying behind the Republican Candidate Donald Trump at the Quicken Loans Stadium in Cleveland, Ohio.

Rancho Santa Margarita’s mayor Tony Beall, who is also a delegate, believes that Trump has a chance in California according to a report from The Daily Caller News Foundation.

“I think he has an excellent chance (to win California this fall),” Beall said. “He has united a movement unlike anything we’ve seen in modern history.”

Beall discussed that every state is up for grabs in 2016.

“People from the left to the right feel betrayed by their leadership over the past eight plus years,” he said. ““I think that (Trump) differentiates himself from Hillary, who’s lived on the public dole her whole life.”

Other Orange County delegates, such as 18-year-old alternate delegate Same Barke also spoke with DCNF on California and Trump's chances to win the state.

On July 18, the California Delegation officially cast their vote for Donald Trump as the Republican nominee.

“I think he’s going to win in a landslide,” Sam Barke, an 18-year-old alternate delegate from Orange County, told The Daily Caller News Foundation on his opinion of the Republican Candidate.

“He’s a real person, he’s not an establishment politician like the rest of these guys were,” Barke said. “He says it how it is, he says what we’re really thinking.”

Other delegates from California offered dissenting opinions on whether Trump will take California.

Orange County Alternate Jeff Barke wouldn't declare a California victory was in the works for Trump, but he still praised the spirit of the Republican Candidate’s comment.

"I know Trump has had this idea that he can win California," Barke said to Capital Public Radio News. "I don't know that that's true or not, because I think California strongly leans to the left. But I think his vision of actually trying to accomplish that is a good one."

With regards to the California delegation, another guest at the National Convention has come down with a case of Norovirus.

Ben Adler of Capital Public Radio states that as of Tuesday morning 14 total staffers and volunteers had contracted the virus, the first since the outbreak began on Monday.

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