California Primary Tests Democrats’ Redistricting Push Against GOP
The primary will show whether Democrats can turn a redrawn map into as many as five new House seats.
- On Tuesday, California voters cast ballots in primary races testing whether Democratic redistricting efforts to counter GOP gains in Texas will pay off in a nationwide map-drawing war initiated by President Donald Trump.
- California Democrats persuaded voters to let them redraw the state's congressional map to potentially gain five seats in the House, retaliating after Texas redrew its own map to make five seats winnable for the GOP.
- In the San Diego suburbs, nine Democrats risk splitting the vote, potentially leaving Republican San Diego County supervisor Jim Desmond and GOP rival Jim O'Neil as the top two finishers under California's unusual primary system.
- Elsewhere, the Central Valley primary will determine if Assemblywoman Jasmeet Bains or Randy Villegas faces Republican Rep. David Valadao, while Rep. Kevin Kiley hopes to survive his redrawn district.
- National efforts to replicate California's map changes faced legal hurdles after the U.S. Supreme Court blocked Virginia Democrats, while a separate ruling gutted key Voting Rights Act provisions protecting majority-Black congressional districts.
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How California's vulnerable Republicans fared during primary
LOS ANGELES — California voters on Tuesday took the first step in what could become the most consequential House battleground fights in the country, casting ballots in five newly redrawn congressional districts that Democrats view as critical to their effort to reclaim the chamber. The races are unfolding against the backdrop of California’s top-two primary system, which sends the two highest vote-getters to the general election regardless of pa…
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Democrats redrew California’s map to counter Trump. The primary tests whether it pays off for them
California Democrats persuaded voters to let them redraw the state's congressional map so the party could potentially gain five seats in the U.S. House to counter GOP redistricting in Texas.
So many Democrats are running that party officials worry the split vote could allow two Republicans to take the top spots, and secure the seat for the GOP in the fall.
California Democrats persuaded voters to let them redraw the state’s congressional map so the party could potentially gain five seats in the U.S. House to counter GOP redistricting in Texas. Tuesday’s primary will be the first indication of whether that will pay off. The state’s unusual primary system, in which the top two vote-getters advance to the general election regardless of party, means Democrats have a chance of effectively missing out o…
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