Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco on Monday, Feb. 17, kicked off his gubernatorial bid before hundreds of cheering supporters in downtown Riverside. The Republican hopes to defy the odds and become California’s first GOP governor since Arnold Schwarzenegger in 2003.

In January 2011, a Republican walked out of the California Governor’s Mansion for the last time in what would turn out to be well over a decade. Bodybuilder turned Hollywood action star turned improbably Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger left office after two terms at the head of the state he moved to as a young man

None of California’s governors came from Riverside County. Most holding the state’s highest elected office hailed from Los Angeles or San Francisco, including Gov. Gavin Newsom, who served as San Francisco’s mayor and California lieutenant governor before winning his current job in 2018.