Omar Navarro

In the March 3, 2020 California Primary, Navarro failed to qualify for the General Election by finishing third with 10.9% of the total vote. Waters received 78.1% of the vote with Republican Joe Collins finishing second with 11.1%.

Navarro released a fraudulent letter on his Twitter account that indicated Maxine Waters wanted to resettle tens of thousands of refugees into her LA district. The letter appeared to be on Waters’s House office stationery and looked as if written by her, bearing her signatures, alleging that she was in communication with CAIR-LA (a Los-Angeles-based chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations) and Hussam Ayloush (the executive director of CAIR-LA) to relocate refugees in Los Angeles. The letter contained several inaccuracies, like referencing multiple committees and subcommittees that Waters does not serve on, and listing an address for a district office that had been closed for nearly a decade.

On August 1, 2019, a restraining order was issued against Navarro for five years for his former girlfriend, conservative activist DeAnna Lorraine Tesoriero, who is publicly known as DeAnna Lorraine and had declared herself as a Republican challenger to Nancy Pelosi in California's 12th congressional district in 2020. In the ruling, the judge cited Navarro's "harassing and stalking" behavior towards Tesoriero. This is Navarro's second restraining order against a former partner in two years as one was previously issued in 2017 for his ex-wife.

On December 7, 2019, Navarro was arrested on three felony (stalking, criminal threats, and attempted extortion) and one misdemeanor (violation of a restraining order) charges for stalking Lorraine. On December 12, 2019, Navarro was remanded into custody on a further seven charges by San Francisco County Superior Court Judge Suzanne Bolanos for being a threat to public safety, and was ordered to undergo a psychiatric evaluation. Navarro is currently being held in San Francisco County Jail 5 in San Bruno, California without bond as he awaits trial on a total of 11 charges, eight of which are felonies.

Navarro challenged Waters for her seat in 2018. He was again defeated, with Waters receiving 77.7% of the vote to Navarro's 22.3%.

Navarro touted endorsements from Roger Stone, Michael Flynn, Joe Arpaio, Herman Cain, and Alex Jones, among others. He met Flynn in person in February 2018, while in Washington to attend the Conservative Political Action Conference.

Navarro served as volunteer traffic commissioner for Torrance, California but resigned in 2017 after the Torrance City Council began the process of removing him from his position.

In 2017, while he was a volunteer for the Torrance Traffic Commission, Navarro was accused of being involved in the pepper-spraying of a child at a pro-sanctuary cities event in Cudahy, California. Video of the incident showed Navarro in the back seat of a car while the driver and another passenger sprayed the surrounding protestors. At first, he denied spraying the crowd, but resigned after the Torrance City Council began the process of removing him. During his resignation statement to Torrance City Council, Navarro accused Mayor Patrick Furey of being a pawn of Maxine Waters.

Navarro was convicted for attaching an electronic tracking device to his wife's car on February 14, 2016. He pleaded guilty to the misdemeanor charge in Orange County and was sentenced to a day in jail and 18 months’ probation in September 2016. He was also ordered to take an anger management course. He was on probation until March 2018. but violated it. It was revoked on April 12, 2017.

Navarro was found guilty only two weeks before the 2016 election. Before Navarro admitted to his own doing, he blamed the Orange County District Attorney's Office and the media for spreading fake news.

Navarro ran for a seat on the City Council of Torrance in 2014. He finished 15th in a field of 15 candidates of an election where voters are requested to select up to four candidates. Navarro garnered 634 votes for 0.95% of the total.

Omar Navarro (born January 9, 1989) is an American perennial candidate for the seat of California's 43rd congressional district against longtime Democratic congressperson Maxine Waters, having run in 2016, 2018, and 2020. Navarro worked for Waters from 2008 to 2012. In 2020, Navarro was defeated in the primary election, tallying 10.9% of the overall vote. Navarro is currently awaiting trial and being held without bond at a San Francisco County Jail after being charged in December 2019 with repeatedly violating a restraining order, stalking, and making threats towards an ex-girlfriend.