Before the Primary, Alexandra Duarte Ran on Guns, Immigration, and Trump. Now Her Website Is About Gas and Groceries, and It No Longer Calls Her a Republican.

Through at least late February, Alexandra Duarte’s campaign website for California State Senate District 4 introduced her as “a conservative Republican.” Her homepage invoked President Trump three times and promised to make guns “easier to buy.” Her About page ended with a pledge to “Make California Great Again.”

By June 4, two days after the June 2 primary, those words were gone. Her website now presents her as a farmer and mother “running to make California affordable,” who will fight “for every working Californian, no matter their party.” As of Oct. 2, the text of her website does not mention President Trump, guns, or the word “conservative.” “Republican” appears only on her Endorsements page, which lists Assembly Republican Leader Heath Flora and six county Republican Party committees among her supporters.

Before and after

Before the primary

After the primary

What her issues section said before the primary

Before the primary, her homepage listed nine issues. Each came with a short statement. Among them:

• Illegal Immigration: “Sanctuary state policies are getting Americans killed. It’s time to support President Trump’s Wall, end sanctuary state policies, and get criminal illegals off our streets.”
• Guns: “The best way to stop a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun. Alexandra will protect our God-given 2nd Amendment rights, making permits more available, ammo cheaper, and guns easier to buy.”
• Protecting Kids: “Parents’ rights are under attack. If your child wants to identify as transgender, you deserve to know. Schools should not be able to hide their radical agendas from parents, and biological males do NOT belong in women’s and girls’ sports. Alexandra will protect our kids. Period.”
• Election Fraud: “Representatives from BOTH parties need to be able to see vote counting. Enough of midnight ballot “dumps” that change results and elections we can’t trust.”
• Crime: “Crime is OUT OF CONTROL thanks to liberal soft-on-crime policies. Alexandra will fight for more cops, harsher sentences, and more prosecutions to lock up criminals.”
• Taxes: “Taxes in California are insane. It’s time to CUT California taxes just like President Trump is doing in Washington.”
• Gas: “Newsom’s Democrats are making gas expensive by stopping drilling and shutting down refineries. President Trump has it right: it’s time to drill, baby, drill, and let our oilmen get to work.”
• Water: “Farmers are the lifeblood of our community, but the radical left politicians continue to demonize them in the name of extreme environmentalism.” (Duarte Nursery paid $1.1 million in 2017 to settle a federal Clean Water Act case over plowed wetlands. Read that story.)
• Wildfire: “Liberal environmentalists make it impossible to manage our forests, putting us all in danger.”

Illegal immigration, guns, “Protecting Kids,” and election fraud are not on her Issues page today. The new page adds groceries, insurance, and jobs. Its crime section says: “Crime is way too high because extreme politicians have put their partisan agenda ahead of common sense.”

What search engines still see

Each web page can carry a short description that visitors don’t see on the page but that search engines and social media can show in results and link previews. As of Oct. 2, the descriptions on Duarte’s website still carried her pre-primary message:

• Homepage: “She also knows that Newsom’s socialist democrats are destroying our rural way of life, and she’s ready to fight back.”
• About page: “Learn more about Alexandra Duarte, a conservative farmer and mom running for the California State Senate. She’s committed to faith, family, and freedom.”
• Issues and Endorsements pages: “Alexandra Duarte is unapologetically pro-gun, pro-family, and pro-freedom. She will fight to secure the border, protect parents’ rights, and stop radical environmentalists from letting our forests burn.”

The same descriptions appear in the Internet Archive’s June 4 copies of her rewritten homepage, About page, and Issues page. We don’t know whether the campaign left them in place on purpose.

The final weeks before the primary

The harder-edged message carried into the last weeks of the primary. In May, her campaign mailed a flyer to homes in the district that billed her as a “Trump Republican,” according to the Turlock Journal. The paper reported that it showed her wearing ear protection and pointing a handgun, with a flash at the muzzle, toward a photo of her Republican opponent, state Sen. Marie Alvarado-Gil.

The flyer listed attacks on Alvarado-Gil as “ingredients.” Among them, it said she “put tampons in boys’ bathrooms,” “made abortions easier to get,” “gave free healthcare to illegals” and “holds hands with Kamala Harris.”

Duarte finished in the top two on June 2 and is on the Nov. 3, 2026 ballot. She is married to former Rep. John Duarte, who served as president of Duarte Nursery.