Review note: Blanca Rubio campaign site (priorities and motivation) may have more bias because it is an advocacy voter guide compared to other formal government and nonprofit journalism sources.
- sos.ca.gov (opens in a new tab)CA Secretary of State — Statement of Vote, June 2, 2026 primary (certified 2026-07-10)
- ballotpedia.org (opens in a new tab)Ballotpedia — June 2026 California primary
- a48.asmdc.org (opens in a new tab)Assemblymember Blanca E. Rubio — official Assembly site (biography, news room)
- blancarubio.com (opens in a new tab)Blanca Rubio campaign site (priorities and motivation)
- leginfo.legislature.ca.gov (opens in a new tab)California Legislature — AB 1121 (2025–2026) bill status and text (Rubio's early-literacy bill)
- downloads.leginfo.legislature.ca.gov (opens in a new tab)California Legislative Information — public bill data (bulk download)
- sos.ca.gov (opens in a new tab)Cal-Access raw data export — California Secretary of State
Last updated September 24, 2026.
State of California
Member of the State Assembly, District 48
This person holds your district's seat in the California State Assembly (2-year term).
Assemblymember Blanca Rubio took 65.3% of the June 2 vote. Republican Dan T. Tran took 34.7%, the only other candidate on the primary ballot. The district covers the San Gabriel Valley around Baldwin Park and West Covina.
The winner holds one of 80 Assembly seats for a two-year term, inside a 12-year lifetime cap on service in Sacramento. An Assemblymember authors bills, sits on the policy committees that decide which bills advance, and argues for the district's share of the annual state budget. Seniority compounds: a member several terms in chairs committees and shapes which bills reach a floor vote at all.
June's margin tells you where this district's registration sits. The incumbent has raised more than $1.3 million against an opponent with no reported fundraising at all, and $678,300 of it came from businesses and other organizations. Weigh a mid-range enacted record against one of the most business-funded campaigns on this ballot.
Blanca Rubio
Blanca Rubio is the Assemblymember for this district. Before Sacramento she taught in local schools for 16 years and served on the Baldwin Park school board and a local water board. She was born in Juarez, Mexico, and immigrated to the United States as a child. She has authored bills on domestic violence, foster care and early literacy.
She says her own experience as an immigrant and a teacher drives her push for policies that help children and working families. She proposed a bill requiring evidence-based reading instruction in California schools, after finding that far fewer low-income third graders read at grade level than their wealthier peers. The bill is still moving through the Legislature.
She promises to keep working on early literacy, foster care, and support for domestic-violence victims. Her campaign lists housing, health care, and public safety among her other priorities.
Dan T. Tran
Dan T. Tran is a real estate businessman and the Republican challenger for this seat. They have not served in elected office. No campaign website or news coverage of their background could be located.
No documented statement of why they are running, and no documented record of their conduct in any office, could be located.
No campaign website or news coverage of their platform could be located. What is known comes from their ballot designation as a real estate businessman.
Record in office
Blanca Rubio (Democratic) is the sitting Assemblymember for this district and is lead author of 31 bills in the 2025–2026 session, 9 of them signed into law. Dan T. Tran has not served in the California Legislature or U.S. Congress; these records cover only those offices. Per the California Legislature's public bill data (leginfo bulk download), retrieved 2026-09-21.
Financial info
- Small donors
- Individuals
- PACs & committees
- Businesses & other orgs
Blanca Rubio
Primary — $1,303,715
- Small donors$299<1%
- Individuals$62,5505%
- PACs & committees$537,59042%
- Businesses & other orgs$678,30053%
November — $63,050
- Individuals$250<1%
- PACs & committees$13,40021%
- Businesses & other orgs$49,40078%
1Dan T. Tran has no contributions reported to Cal-Access for this race.
2Figures are CA Form 460 filings through June 30, 2026 by committees controlled by each candidate, and can include transfers from a candidate's earlier committees. Semi-annual reports covering January–June 2026 were due July 31, 2026, so some totals lag a period behind. Per the California Secretary of State's Cal-Access raw data export, retrieved 2026-09-21.
3Dan T. Tran has no itemized contributions dated after the June 2, 2026 primary reported to Cal-Access yet.
4Total is itemized (Schedule A) contributions and self-funding loans dated after the June 2, 2026 primary, through June 30, 2026 — small-dollar unitemized (under $100) contributions aren't independently dated in Cal-Access's raw export, so they aren't reflected here and this may undercount true small-donor activity since the primary. This also doesn't include money reported only on 24-hour late-contribution reports (Form 497) that haven't yet appeared in a periodic Form 460 filing. Per the California Secretary of State's Cal-Access raw data export, retrieved 2026-08-30.