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U.S. House · Updated Oct 9

California's 10th District

Mark Desaulnier win chance

>99%

Typical margin: Desaulnier by 27.5

Democrat

Mark Desaulnier 100%Katherine Piccinini 0%

Who's running

Mark DesaulnierDemocrat · Incumbent
Katherine PiccininiRepublican

The numbers behind it

Cook Political ReportAs of Sep 23, 2026Solid D
Money raisedFEC, through Jun 30, 2026Desaulnier $567KPiccinini $21K
Campaign money

Mark Desaulnier

Raised $567K · $586K cash on hand · through Jun 30, 2026 · FEC filing ↗

Katherine Piccinini

Raised $21K · $7K cash on hand · through Jun 30, 2026 · FEC filing ↗

Our model counts the money gap as worth 1.4 points to Mark Desaulnier. Even a 10× gap is worth at most 1.5.

Other filers in this race raised $29K in total.

Candidates' own committees only, from fec.gov. Third-quarter reports are due Oct 15.

How the numbers moved
  1. Sep 23Cook Political Report: Solid DCook Political Report
  2. Jun 30Katherine Piccinini had raised $21KFEC filing
  3. Jun 30Mark Desaulnier had raised $567KFEC filing
How we got this number

We blend the polling average (when there is one) with the race's fundamentals: past results, incumbency, the national mood and the money. Then we play the election out 40,000 times, with polling misses that move every race together, and count how often each side wins.

90% of the model's 40,000 simulated elections land between D+15.2 and D+39.7.

No public polls yet, so this forecast rests on the fundamentals alone, with a wider range.

Our method ›