Trisha Paytas Announces Plan To Run For Congress In 2026

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Trisha Paytas has many titles: influencer, singer, podcaster, actor. But this year, she is looking to dive into a pretty big new career, as a politician. Paytas has declared she’s intent on putting a bid in for a U.S. House of Representatives seat in California.

Paytas made her announcement in a Jan. 6 TikTok. “I'm currently Googling how to run for Congress in California 2026,” she said. “The idea of me being representative for the state of California came to me in a dream — in a vision, if you will. It’s so vivid to me.”

Her newfound political ambition is inspired by having her three children in the last three years. “I never thought of myself as a political person until I started having kids and realizing, like, the world could be just so disastrous [and] dystopian for real by the time they ...