When Jim Brulte, chair of the California Republican Party, was asked this weekend whether his embattled party could win a single statewide office in 2014, he refused to predict victory.
“This is a party that, whether we like it or not, has been in decline for over two decades,” he told reporters at his party’s three-day state convention in Burlingame, where hundreds of grassroots activists and candidates gathered to plan strategy. “Ask me in November.”
