Welcome to Trail Guide. Your daily guide to all things 2016 is zoomed in on one thing today: the GOP primary debate at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley. As the candidates arrive in California, this is what we're watching:
- It's fight night and several candidates are ready to go a round or two with Donald Trump
- The Times' Mark Barabak sets the scene for the action
- Trump began his California swing with a speech on a battleship
Republican presidential candidates find major donors in Bay Area
The San Francisco Bay Area, one of the nation's biggest Democratic strongholds, has emerged with an unlikely distinction this year: It is California's biggest source of campaign money for GOP presidential candidates.