Scrutinel— 2026 midterms

UpdatedAug 24, 2026, 7:02 PM UTC
To election day71 days
Simulations200,000

California 20th District

Currently held by a Republican · incumbent running · district redrawn for 2026

Democrat
Sandra Van Scotter
0.3%
Republican
Vince Fong
99.7%
ForecastSafe R
Projected margin
R+33.5
80% range
R+47.4 to R+19.7
Partisan lean
R+31.1
Uncertainty multiplier
1.80×

The 80% range comes from 200,000 simulations in which this race’s error is correlated with every other race through the national, state and demographic layers.

How the estimate is built
Fundamentals 100.0%
Polling average
no polls
Fundamentals
R+32.9
Blended
R+32.9
Similar-race shift
+0.2
Polling

No public polling of this matchup. The forecast rests on fundamentals plus the polling residuals of demographically and politically similar races — which is the normal case: most of the 435 House seats are never polled.

Fundamentals
Partisan lean
R+31.1
Elasticity
1.04
Incumbency
−1.9
Candidate experience
0.0
Fundraising
−4.4
National environment
D+5.4
Expected margin
R+33.1

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