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Josh Harder vs John McBride

Likely DD +12.8 forecast · 3 months 27 days to election· 0 polls · 4 marketsMarkets 11h agoRating today
Live model · win probabilityupdated 11h ago · poliagg-v34
85% Harder (D)
15% McBride (R)
R+15R+5TIEDD+5D+15
Predicted final margin D +12.8 · 80% CI R+3.3 → D+28.9 · 3 months 27 days to election
Momentum
insufficient data
Tipping-point P
3.8%
Decisive for chamber control
Market · D-side
D 94¢
Cross-platform consensus
News articles · 30d
no recent coverage
Where this race stands
Verified

Safe D · model 85% D

With limited polling, prediction markets imply Safe D (D win prob 94%, market-derived).

The poliagg-v34 ensemble forecasts D+12.8 with an 80% CI ranging from R+3.3 (10th pctile) to D+28.9 (90th pctile), giving D a 85% chance of winning.

Tipping-point probability: 3.8% of simulations see this race as decisive for chamber control.

CITATIONS · safe-d · low-tipping
Forecast · poliagg-v34
Predicted final margin
D +12.8
80% CI: R +3.3D +28.9 · win prob 85%
R+30R+15TIEDD+15D+30
Quality · inputs
Data quality · medium
Polls used0
Days to election118
Residual σ12.56pt
Generated7/7/2026
Compare with other models3 models
qgbt-v1GBT (qgbt)
D +4.8
80% CI D +2.3 → D +13.4
CV MAE 8.51
bayes-v1Bayes / Kalman
D +10.5
80% CI D +8.9 → D +12.1
CV MAE 1.24
consensusMarket-implied
D +14.8
no interval
market-implied

Prediction markets

Consensus · D 94¢2 platformsupdated 11h ago
Cross-platform price · history
50¢60¢70¢80¢90¢100¢370 DAYS · D YES PRICENOWJul 2Jul 7
Per-platform · current
PlatformD YESR YES7d ΔVolvs cons
Polymarket
Will the Republican Party win the CA-09 House seat?
93¢7¢-1¢-1
Kalshi
CA-09 House winner?
95¢3¢+0¢$0K+1

Endorsements · 18 total

Source · Wikipedia · 1 candidate with no endorsements yet
18Harder · 100%
DJosh Harder18 endorsers
Most notable · Mark DeSaulnier · CA-10 (2015–present)
Organizations16
Elected officials1
Federal 1State 0Local 0
Newspapers1
RJohn McBride0 endorsers
no endorsers yet
No endorsements found yet. Endorsements come from the candidate's Wikipedia article (when one exists) and update with the daily scrape.

Money raised · own committees

FEC Schedule E (independent expenditures) + candidate-committee totals · last filing 2025-10-16
Josh HarderH8CA10126 ↗
Receipts
$3.7M
Disburse
$976.1K
Cash on hand
$4.4M
Debts
$0
No industry data.
No contributor data.
John McBrideOWN COMMITTEE
Receipts
$30.2K
Disburse
$28.9K
Cash on hand
$1.4K
Debts
$26.6K
No industry data.
No contributor data.

Outside spending · independent expenditures

FEC Schedule E (independent expenditures) + candidate-committee totals · 24/48-hr IE reports
IE total
$5.6K
D side
$1.1K · 19%
R side
$4.6K · 81%
Top spender
THE CONSERVATIVE CA…
For / against split
For Harder $1.1K
Against Harder $4.6K
SpenderSideAmountShareTarget
THE CONSERVATIVE CAUCUS DBA AMERICANS FOR CONSTITUTIONAL LIBERTYR$4.6K81%against Josh Harder
DEMOCRACY THROUGH VOTINGD$80014%for Josh Harder
GIVEGREEN UNITED ACTIOND$293.345%for Josh Harder

Editorial ratings · 5 raters

Cook · Sabato · Inside Elections · 538 · DDHQ et al.
Safe D5
Cook Political Report
Safe D
Jun 17
The Economist
Safe D
May 5
Inside Elections
Safe D
Jun 24
Sabato's Crystal Ball
Safe D
Jun 8
Split Ticket
Safe D
Jun 24

Demographic crosstabs

age · education · race · gender
No demographic crosstabs published for this race yet. Most pollsters release only topline numbers; subgroup breakdowns (age, education, race, gender) appear here when a pollster publishes them.
Rating timeline
May 5, 2026Likely Dmodel
May 3, 2026Lean Dmodel
Verification trail
Polls verified0 / 0deterministic
Polls flaggednone
Markets ingested2 platformsupdated 11h ago
FEC filingssyncedcommittee + IE · 2025-10-16
Endorsements18 totalWikipedia scrape
News coverage< 5 articlesGoogle News
Method · bounds + percentage totals + date-order checks