The 48 Swing State Dems Who Voted to Keep California's National EV Mandate

In what will likely be one of his greatest achievements in his second term, President Trump today signed a bill abolishing a national electric vehicle (EV) sales mandate dictated by California with the Biden regime's blessing.

The congressional vote in late May deeply fractured the already fragmented Democratic Party, with as many as 35 House Democrats joining the Republican majority in voting for the set of key resolutions (H.J.Res. 87, 88, & 89). The bills narrowly passed the Senate along party lines.

The mandate dates to 2022, when the California Air Resources Board passed the "Advanced Clean Cars II" regulation requiring 35% of new passenger vehicles solid in California to be zero-emission vehicles (ZEVs) by 2026, reaching 100% by 2035. Under the Clean Air Act, only the EPA has authority to draft vehicle emissions standards. Yet just weeks before he left office, Biden's EPA granted California a special waiver allowing the Advanced Clean Cars II rule to far exceed the regulatory limits set by Congress.

Because California makes up 12% of the U.S. car market, the rule effectively establishes a nationwide mandate by forcing companies to meet the state's extreme emissions standards everywhere. 17 other states have already adopted the California standard.

Electric vehicles made up just 10% of all passenger vehicle sales last year. EV sales slumped 5% across the board in April—the third consecutive month of decline despite hefty government subsidies—even as gas-powered vehicle sales jumped 10% in the same month.

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Green to the Last

Signaling their unyielding fealty to the "green" regime, 48 Democrats (plus one liberal Republican) in battleground states voted against the set of resolutions, which together nullify the EPA's waiver approving California's onerous new standards. All House seats are up in the 2026 midterms, as are five key Senate seats on this list.

In Arizona, both Democrat Congressmen—Greg Stanton and Yassmin Ansari—as well as Sens. Mark Kelly and Ruben Gallego voted "nay." Stanton and Gallego both voted for bills to force the entire U.S. economy into net-zero, or 100% dependence on wind, solar, and other unreliables, by 2050.

Two of Nevada's three Democrat congressmen, Dina Titus and Steven Horsford, as well as Sens. Catherine Cortez Masto and Jackie Rosen, voted "nay." Both senators co-sponsored the net-zero legislation. Trump flipped Nevada for the first time since 2004, winning by a larger margin than George W. Bush.

Trump came within four points of winning Minnesota, the best Republican performance in 20 years despite having Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz on the ballot. Yet Minnesota Democrats haven't gotten the message, with all 4 Democrat congressmen—Angie Craig, Betty McCollum, Kelly Morrison, and Somali socialist Ilhan Omar—voting "nay," as well as Sens. Amy Klobuchar and Tina Smith. Smith is retiring in 2026, leaving an open seat and GOP opportunity.

Michigan Democrats were split, with 5 of 6 congressmen voting "nay": Debbie Dingell, Hillary Scholten, Haley Stevens, Shri Thanedar (the clownish architect of the latest Trump impeachment effort), and Hamas sympathizer Rashida Tlaib. Sens. Elissa Slotkin and Gary Peters joined them. Peters is retiring from the Senate in 2026, leaving another open seat and possible GOP pickup.

On the campaign trail, Trump vowed to help U.S. automakers "build automobiles in America again at a rate that nobody could have dreamt possible" and warned that Biden's EV mandate would "be a bloodbath for the country" to China's benefit. Voters agreed, and backed Trump in 2016 and 2024, making him the first Republican to win Michigan since George H.W. Bush's 1988 blowout.

Pennsylvania's 7 Democrat congressmen uniformly voted "nay": Brendan Doyle, Madeleine Dean, Christopher Deluzio, Dwight Evans, Chrissy Houlahan, Summer Lee, and Mary Gay Scanlon; as well as "moderate" Sen. John Fetterman. They were joined by liberal Republican Rep. Brian FitzPatrick, an environmental hard-liner who introduced a carbon tax in 2019 to "combat climate change" by taxing carbon dioxide emissions.

In 2016, Trump became the first Republican to win Pennsylvania since 1988, and he won it again in 2024 largely due to his support for fracking and abundant energy. Kamala Harris, in contrast, supported a ban on fracking—which Restoration News estimates could've cost Pennsylvanians $41 billion—and was heavily bankrolled by radical "green" activists.

Both of Wisconsin's Democratic Reps., Mark Pocan and Gwen Moore, voted "nay." So did Sen. Tammy Baldwin, who narrowly won reelection despite her extreme environmentalist policies. Wisconsin broke for Trump in 2016 and 2024, voting Republican for the first time since 2004.

Four of Georgia's five Democratic Reps. voted "nay": Hank Johnson, Lucy McBath, David Scott, and Nikema Williams. So did both Democratic Sens., Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock. Despite voting blue in 2020, Georgia remains a deeply conservative red state with a contentious Senate election in 2026 against Ossoff.

All but one of North Carolina's four Democratic congressmen voted "nay"—Alma Adams, Valerie Foushee, and Deborah Ross. North Carolina is the one swing state Trump won in 2016, 2020, and 2024, improving his turnout each time and pushing the once-purple state firmly into the Republican column. That's crucial, given the state will have a hotly contested Senate seat that Republicans must hold.

And in Virginia, all 5 Democrat congressmen voted "nay" (one more failed to vote): Eugene Vindman, Donald Beyer, Jennifer McClellan, Bobby Scott, and Suhas Subramanyam, as well as Democrat Sens. Tim Kaine and Mark Warner.

Virginia has remained firmly Democrat in statewide elections since 2008, albeit contested by Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin and his successor, Lt. Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears, running for governor in November 2025. The state will feature a contested Senate race next year, with Mark Warner up for reelection (and rumors suggesting he may retire). Trump improved by two points here in 2024.

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