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Influencer Trisha Paytas weighs bid for congressional seat in 2026

NEW YORK, NEW YORK - FEBRUARY 03: Trisha Paytas lights the Empire State Building in partnership with the Entertainment Community Fund in celebration of Trisha Paytas' Broadway debut at The Empire State Building on February 03, 2025 in New York City. (Photo by Roy Rochlin/Getty Images for Empire State Realty Trust)

(NewsNation) — YouTuber Trisha Paytas is thinking of running for political office.

In her new video called “2026 MANIFESTATIONS,” the singer shared that she “would love to run” for a U.S. House of Representatives seat in California, where she lives with her family.


“I know, it sounds so crazy to me, too,” she told her followers. “I really want to be able to truly make a difference because I see so much horrible stuff happening in the world — and happening right here in California as well.”

In a TikTok video, the content creator said she is “currently Googling” the steps to run for office.

“The idea of me being representative for the state of California came to me in a dream — in a vision, if you will,” she said. “It’s so vivid to me.”

Trisha Peytas: Becoming a mom changed my views

Paytas said she became more concerned about the world after she became a mother in 2022.

“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 get to be adults,” she told her followers. “I was like, ‘Alright Trish, enough just, like, shutting it out, being ignorant.”

Trisha Paytas at the “Wicked” Los Angeles Premiere at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion on November 9, 2024 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Gilbert Flores/Variety via Getty Images)

If she were to win office, the “Freaky” singer said her primary goal would be to raise the age requirement for participating in adult entertainment to 25.

She said her campaign slogan would be, “California could be good.”

Paytas did not specify which political party she would join, if any.