Democratic
Sandra Van Scotter
Major-party general-election nominee.
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California District 20 election, 2026
Sandra Van Scotter vs. Vince Fong on a newly enacted 2026 district map. Today's article: every forecast for this race →
VotePredictor forecast
Vince Fong favored
Safe R · predicted margin R+25.6
99%
chance to win
2024 presidential margin
R+33.02026 national environment
D+8.0District polls
noneForecast spread
±6.6 pointsMargin from the district's presidential lean on its 2026 lines, one fitted intercept and the national environment as a uniform swing; the win probability adds a decaying incumbency premium (Republican incumbent running). No district poll is blended in.
Republican
Vince Fong
Incumbent representative for CA-20. Voting record, ideology and biography →
Polls
No district-level 2026 general-election poll is currently in VotePredictor's verified polling feed for CA-20. The forecast above is the model alone: lean, incumbency and the national environment.
Campaign money
FEC reports through October 14, 2026Vince FongREP · incumbent$2.4M raised
Spent $1.8MCash on hand $667k1% from donors under $200
Top contributors, industries and states
Contributors
Industries
- Not Reported$88k
- Self-Employed & Freelance$59k
- Legal & Professional Services$37k
- Finance, Insurance & Real Estate$34k
- Retired$31k
States
- CA$722k
- VA$55k
- FL$27k
- MD$24k
- DC$22k
Sandra Van ScotterDEM$48k raised
Spent $42kCash on hand −$2kDebts $1k36% from donors under $200Self-funded $18k
Top contributors, industries and states
Contributors
Industries
- Unemployed$4k
- Retired$3k
- Defense & Aerospace$2k
- Self-Employed & Freelance$720
- Not Reported$620
States
- CA$11k
What each candidate's own campaign committees reported for the 2025–26 cycle; outside spending by PACs and parties is not included. Industries are classified from donors' reported employers. The House forecast's win probability reads the two nominees' shares of individual contributions shown here, a small term that never moves the predicted margin. Data: GovMoneyGraph, based on FEC records.
Other forecasts
We have not yet ingested a district rating from these independent forecasters for CA-20; links go to their current national House ratings. Missing is shown as missing—not converted into a probability.
Past results
Every election in California's 20th district we hold a result for. District numbers are reused across redistricting, so older rows may cover different ground than the seat does today.
Candidate news
Republican Study Committee Members Say 'Waste, Water, and Wildfire' in California Shows the Costs of Democrat Leadership
Reps. Vince Fong (R-CA) and James Gallagher (R-CA) pointed to California’s unemployment system, high-speed rail project, wildfire and water policies, and regulatory costs as examples of problems they attributed to Democrat governance, including effects they s…
Breitbart News · October 1, 2026
Despite welcome reform, the war on America's truckers rages on
It’s National Truck Driver Appreciation Week, when the American Trucking Associations holds its annual hot dog and hamburger lunches for the same drivers it spends the rest of the year screwing through its lobbying efforts in Washington, D.C. This year, howev…
TheBlaze · September 15, 2026
Gavin Newsom's 'hidden climate tax' hitting Americans nationwide, lawmaker warns
Rep. Vince Fong targets the EPA-authorized vessel at berth regulation that lets California levy massive penalties on cargo ships docked at its ports.
Fox News · August 10, 2026
Self-driving trucks are about controlling the roads — not making them safer
Americans have become strangely accustomed to driverless cars. In cities like San Francisco and Austin, people casually summon Waymo robo-taxis the way they once called Uber.Now imagine the same technology attached to an 80,000-pound tractor-trailer moving at…
TheBlaze · May 28, 2026
Candidate field source: 2026 House election roster ↗