SACRAMENTO — California officials announced on Wednesday that they had finally finished counting the votes and Ronald Reagan had officially won the 1966 governor's race.
Exit polling data showed Reagan with an early lead on the night of November 8, 1966, but election officials were hesitant to declare a winner before each and every vote was painstakingly tabulated. Now, 59 years later, Reagan was declared California's next governor.
"I'm excited to see how Reagan will clean up our state," said one voter. "He didn't say much about the fentanyl crisis back in 1966, but I'm confident he'll work hard to get it off our streets."
Is this the beginning of California becoming a red state? It's too soon to tell, say experts. "What concerned voters in 1966 doesn't necessarily concern them today," said Dr. Abel Hemming, a political strategist and historian. "Reagan doesn't even have a plan to prevent wildfires because they weren't a big problem back then. So I'm not sure how well he's going to go over with today's Californians."
Reagan, a former screen actor, could not be reached for comment.
At publishing time, it was revealed that Ronald Reagan, who apparently served two consecutive terms as President of the United States in the 1980s, had sadly passed away in 2004 and therefore could not serve his gubernatorial term.
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