California remains solidly within the Democratic column after the recent election, but an apparent rightward shift among the electorate statewide has made its once-deep blue hue a little bit more purplish.

That is news worth celebrating for Silicon Valley tech entrepreneur Allison Huynh, who was once a prominent Democratic donor and fundraiser but switched her support to Republicans and President-elect Donald Trump in this election, according to Fox News.

Huynh, who first announced her flip in June, credited the state population's increasing rejection of the "progressive" and "socialist" policies of the Democrats as being responsible for many voters' undeniable turn from blue to red.

Trump performed better than in 2016 or 2020

In June, when the former Obama donor revealed that she not only planned to vote for former President Trump but also would help fundraise for his campaign, Huynh told Fox News at that time that her beloved home city of San Francisco "has been the science experiment that's gone awry."

"I wake up in the morning, there's no grocery stores to go to, there's no malls to take my teenage girls shopping to. The streets are not safe, there are more fentanyl users and dealers than high school students in our once great city," she lamented.

She was apparently not alone among Californians in making that switch, as NBC News has reported that while Democratic nominee Vice President Kamala Harris won the state handily over Republican nominee Trump, 58.6-38.2%, it was by a substantially smaller margin than Democrats won by in the last two election cycles, which were 63.5-34.3% in 2020 and 62.3-31.9% in 2016.

Progressive Democrats did it to themselves with socialist policies

Now, in the surprising aftermath of the 2024 election, Huynh told Fox News, "Well, I think liberals have just been too leftist, and they're just out of touch with reality."

"And I've talked about that before, and it sounds really nice and fine and really warm and fuzzy. The socialist dogma in San Francisco is we help everyone," she continued. "And the reality is that when you help everyone, you help no one. And so, the liberal elites are out of touch with reality and living in a bubble with their rich Democratic donors."

"But the truth of the matter is that there are limited resources, and we cannot help everyone," she explained. "We need to put Americans first. We need to put the citizen, taxpaying, legal citizens in San Francisco first. Just like on a plane in an emergency. The pilot says you need to put the oxygen mask on yourself first. Americans first before helping anyone else. And Democrats just don't understand us."

The entire state shifted toward Republicans

Local Bay Area ABC affiliate KGO reported this week that virtually every county in the state, and even many precincts within deeply Democratic cities on the coast like San Francisco, experienced a noticeable rightward shift among voters, even though Democratic candidates still won the statewide races by healthy margins.

Yet, a handful of counties in the state's interior flipped from blue to red, and San Francisco Republican Party Chairman John Dennis revealed, "Every county in California has Republican registration grow. Every legislative district in California has seen Republican registration go up. It's a round rejection of the Democrat agenda and how they've run the state."

Huynh agreed and pointed to how Californians voted in favor of tough-on-crime candidates in the Bay Area and statewide propositions as evidence, and said, "I think the voters made their decision. And the truth is that we all know that crime is a big problem. Illegal immigration is a big problem. And it all feeds into the addiction and homeless problem."

Noting that San Francisco's progressive Mayor London Breed was voted out in favor of moderate Daniel Lurie, she continued, "It's a very low bar. Consider the politicians such as Kamala Harris, Chesa Boudin, London Breed, also the Oakland politicians Pamela Price and Mayor Sheng Thao, how they forget the citizens of the San Francisco Bay Area. They're very out of touch with the realities. And we need to focus on cleaning up the streets, making the streets safer. So I think people just wanted change with Daniel Lurie. And he has the name and he was seen, you know, kind of talking and walking the streets. And so that's a good sign."

As for the broader statewide shift toward the right, Huyhn added, "At the end of the day, we have to vote for our families. There's high crime, there's high taxes, high immigration issues, a cost of living, high homeless rates."