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Former Stockton Mayor Michael Tubbs running in the 2026 election cycle.

FIRST IN PLAYBOOK — Former Stockton Mayor Michael Tubbs is launching an attempt at a political comeback.

Stockton’s former mayor declares for Lt. Governor–and reflects on his legacy as well as his mistakes in Stockton.

Former Stockton Mayor Michael Tubbs announced Wednesday he is running to replace Eleni Kounalakis as the next lieutenant governor of California in 2026.

The 33-year-old former Stockton mayor is running for statewide office on generational change even as he stands in solidarity with his party’s aging standard-bearer.

Michael Tubbs, the former mayor of Stockton, Calif. who became a hero to progressives, is seeking a political return years after pushing guaranteed income during the presidency of former President Trump and losing his reelection bid.

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Michael Tubbs is running for lieutenant governor of California, returning to politics four years after voters in his Central Valley hometown ousted him as one of the country’s youngest mayors following his …

The former mayor of Stockton has carried a gray notebook to 10 counties — and plans to visit the remaining 48 — as part of his work for his new nonprofit, End Poverty in California. His …

Tubbs spearheaded a 2017 pilot program offering $500 to some of the city’s poorer residents, no strings attached. The experiment was a huge success: People who got the cash secured full-time jobs at more than twice …

Michael Tubbs, who as mayor of Stockton, Calif., put in place one of the country’s first guaranteed income programs in 2019, notes that these payments are not meant to be a sole means of income but …