 He won the general election on November 2, 2010, with 57.3% of the vote, to the Democratic Party nominee's 36.8%.In March 2011, Donnelly drove three hours from Sacramento to Fresno to appear before the California State University, Fresno student senate committee, in an attempt to oust the student body president Pedro Ramirez, a student in good standing at the university.Ramirez was brought by his parents to the U.S. from Mexico at the age of three.