# Member of the State Assembly, District 48

Compare records and positions simply between Blanca Rubio or Dan T. Tran for Member of the State Assembly, District 48 at VoteOrElse.com. On the November 3, 2026 California general election ballot. This person holds your district's seat in the California State Assembly (2-year term).

- Jurisdiction: California Legislature
- Election: November 3, 2026 California general election
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## On the ballot

- **Blanca Rubio** — State Assemblymember/Teacher · Democratic · Incumbent
- **Dan T. Tran** — Real Estate Businessman · Republican

Assemblymember Blanca Rubio took 65.3% of the June 2 vote and Republican Dan T. Tran took 34.7%; they were the only two candidates 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 E. Rubio was born in Juarez, Mexico, and came to the United States with her parents as a young child. Before her 2016 election to the Assembly she spent “16 years as a teacher and over 20 years in elected office,” including seats on the Baldwin Park Unified School District board and the Valley County Water Board (assemblymember's official site). She has chaired the Assembly's Governmental Organization Committee and the New Democratic Caucus, and has authored bills on domestic violence, foster care and early literacy.

Rubio says the “inequities our children and families face in our state” have “motivated her to find thoughtful solutions” (campaign site). She authored AB 1121, which would require California schools to use evidence-based reading instruction, after the bill's text noted that “only 3 in 10 low-income third graders” read at grade level compared with “6 in 10” of their higher-income peers (leginfo.legislature.ca.gov); the bill was amended in the Assembly in April 2025 and remains pending.

She promises to keep pushing for early-literacy reform, support for foster youth and domestic-violence survivors, and her long-standing “students-first philosophy” (campaign site). Her campaign also lists housing, health care, aging, water and animal protection among the issues she works on (campaign site).

**Strengths:** A specific, still-pending literacy bill grounded in real reading-score data, plus a long record on domestic-violence and foster-care policy.

**Trade-offs:** Many terms in a safe seat mean this race draws little outside scrutiny of her record; that scrutiny falls to you.

**Keep in mind:** Her literacy bill, AB 1121, has not yet passed; judge the proposal on its merits, not a result that hasn't happened.

## Dan T. Tran

Dan T. Tran is a real estate businessman and the Republican candidate for California's 48th Assembly District. They have not served in the California Legislature or U.S. Congress. No campaign website or independent news coverage of their background could be located.

No documented statement of their motivation for 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.

**Strengths:** Tran took more than a third of the June vote while reporting no campaign funds and no documented platform at all.

**Trade-offs:** No record in office and no documented platform leave almost nothing for a voter to judge beyond their party and occupation.

**Keep in mind:** Coverage of this race turned up almost nothing about Tran; that gap is about available information, not a comment on their candidacy.

## 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.

## Record details

Rubio — AB 1622 (2026): Electrified security fences.

Rubio — AB 1389 (2026): Tribal gaming: compact ratification.

Rubio — AB 1009 (2025): Teacher credentialing: administrative services credential: occupational and physical therapists.

Committee assignments and the most recently signed-into-law bills each record-holder lead-authored, from the official legislative record.

## Financial info

- **Blanca Rubio**
  - Primary: $1,303,715 raised (Small donors: $299; Individuals: $62,550; PACs & committees: $537,590; Businesses & other orgs: $678,300)
  - November: $63,050 raised (Individuals: $250; PACs & committees: $13,400; Businesses & other orgs: $49,400)

Dan T. Tran has no contributions reported to Cal-Access for this race.

Figures 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.

Dan T. Tran has no itemized contributions dated after the June 2, 2026 primary reported to Cal-Access yet.

Total 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.

## Review notes

- 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.

## Sources

1. [CA Secretary of State — Statement of Vote, June 2, 2026 primary (certified 2026-07-10)](https://www.sos.ca.gov/elections/prior-elections/statewide-election-results/primary-election-june-2-2026/statement-vote)
2. [Ballotpedia — June 2026 California primary](https://ballotpedia.org)
3. [Assemblymember Blanca E. Rubio — official Assembly site (biography, news room)](https://a48.asmdc.org/)
4. [Blanca Rubio campaign site (priorities and motivation)](https://blancarubio.com/)
5. [California Legislature — AB 1121 (2025–2026) bill status and text (Rubio's early-literacy bill)](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB1121)
6. [California Legislative Information — public bill data (bulk download)](https://downloads.leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/)
7. [Cal-Access raw data export — California Secretary of State](https://www.sos.ca.gov/campaign-lobbying/helpful-resources/raw-data-campaign-finance-and-lobbying-activity)

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