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• Rudy Salas
• List of members representing California
• Prosecutors seek more sanctions for Trump as key witness resumes testimony in hush money trial
• California Democrat makes cash splash in late entrance to competitive House race
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• Column: Kevin McCarthy wants vengeance. Now he’s free to pursue it

Times poll finds Republicans strongly favor Trump in California’s 2024 primary, though voters are concerned about his and Biden’s vulnerabilities. California has the most Republican voters in the nation due to its sheer size. In 2020, Trump received 6 million votes here, and in 2016 he won the backing of 4.5 million Californians. If the former president’s standing in the polls holds up, he is well-positioned to win all of California’s delegates. Miller also helped write Trump’s inaugural speech as well as his remarks at the rally that preceded the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. The controversial Coachella Valley resident was the first openly gay person to serve a president at the Cabinet level as Trump’s acting director of national intelligence.

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Rudy Salas

Turnout could be depressed if President Joe Biden and Trump appear assured of the nominations. Biden’s popularity has faded in the state and nationally, and Trump is widely loathed in California outside his loyal base. Democrats are warning about Trump’s possible return to Washington, threats to abortion rights and unchecked gun violence.

List of members representing California

Republicans need a net gain of only five seats nationally to seize the House from Democrats. The list of the 10 speakers who served in the job longest includes just one Republican (and in the ninth slot at that). That speaker was Joseph G. Cannon of Illinois, notorious as the autocratic "Czar Cannon" during three two-year tours as speaker that ended with his party's historic defeat in 1910.

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In fact, that’s what many Republican-controlled states are expected to do this time — carve out enough GOP congressional districts to oust Democrats from House control. The fight for control of the closely divided House will likely be decided in California, the ex-speaker’s home state. Five of the state’s 12 Republicans — Young Kim of Anaheim Hills, David Valadao of Hanford, Mike Garcia of Santa Clarita, Michelle Steel of Seal Beach and John Duarte of Modesto — hold districts President Biden won in 2020. A sixth Golden State Republican, Rep. Ken Calvert of Corona, also faces a competitive race.

But Mr. Bacon said the remark amounted to antisemitism from the congresswoman, a progressive firebrand and one of two Muslim women in the House, who has drawn criticism in the past for incendiary comments. Representative Don Bacon, Republican of Nebraska, does not yet have a timeline for releasing his censure resolution against Ms. Omar, a spokeswoman said. “Californians demand relief from the surging cost of living, gas prices and violent crime fueled by extreme left-wing policies in D.C. And Sacramento,” Ben Petersen, a spokesperson for the National Republican Congressional Committee, said in a statement. But Jon Fleischman, former executive director of California’s Republican Party, doesn’t think connecting vulnerable California Republicans to Johnson will go far with voters. “Californians are eager to reject the extremism that [Valadao]’s been enabling,” Dan Gottlieb, a spokesman for Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, said in a news release.

But away from the azure coastline and sapphire-tinged urban centers, the state remains a battleground for several seats in the U.S. In a key California congressional race, Adam Gray and John Duarte are battling to represent an open House district in the Central Valley. California’s 2022 election ballot includes races for governor, attorney general, Legislature and Congress, local contests and statewide propositions. Here’s how to vote in the California midterm election, how to register, what to do if you didn’t get mail ballot or if you made a mistake on your ballot. This year, California voters could play a key role in determining the balance of power in the House of Representatives. Gray, who is backed by the campaign arm of House Democrats, argues that his party can’t reclaim the House majority without winning his district.

The district at the northern edge of Los Angeles County’s suburban sprawl was staunchly Republican territory for more than a quarter-century before 2018’s blue wave, when a young, dynamic candidate flipped the seat and helped retake Democratic control of the House. The district sweeps north from Buffalo, including the city, many of its suburbs and Niagara Falls. But his victory will have an immediate impact on the House at a time when Speaker Mike Johnson of Louisiana is laboring to hold onto a narrow Republican majority and fend off a rebellion on his right flank.

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Early results showed Tran was a distant second, followed by Nguyen-Penaloza. For chronological tables of members of both houses of the United States Congress from the state, see United States congressional delegations from California. Gas prices worry voters in this coastal California House district, home to many commuters. This district covers parts of San Diego and Riverside counties, including the cities of Temecula, Santee and Murrieta and a stretch of the U.S-Mexico border.

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He is the son of Vietnamese refugees, works as an attorney and owns a pharmacy with his wife. First elected in 2020, incumbent GOP Rep. Michelle Steel will be fighting to defend her seat in a C-shaped inland Orange County district that also includes a sliver of L.A. Back in 2022, Republican Scott Baugh narrowly lost to Rep. Katie Porter (D-Irvine), coming just a few points short of unseating a nationally known Democratic Party superstar backed by her own fundraising juggernaut. The Cook Political Report has rated 10 California races as competitive, with six of them rated as either lean Democratic or lean Republican or a tossup. California’s importance in any strategy to win control of the House in the November 2024 election is one of the few things Republicans and Democrats agree on. Over 2,000 miles west of the nation’s Capitol, the battle for control of the House of Representatives in 2025 is being waged in farmland along Highway 99, fast-growing commuter communities north and east of Los Angeles and Orange County beach towns and inland suburbs.

But Gottlieb’s GOP counterpart was equally roseate in his outlook, with National Republican Congressional Committee spokesperson Ben Petersen reveling in the ugly and expensive primary fights that consumed Democrats in several of the state’s most crucial swing districts. But Patterson had presided over a massive voter registration drive over the last five years, and the party had moved back into second. People across the country liked to dismiss “blue California,” she said, but they were forgetting that California has more registered Republicans than any other state. But should he — or presumptive GOP nominee Donald Trump — secure a second term in the fall, the future of either’s policy agenda rests heavily on which party controls Congress, where Republicans currently hold a wafer-thin majority in the U.S. A growing number of Senate Republicans are calling for a reassessment of the National Republican Senatorial Committee’s spending decisions after the party failed to take back the majority in 2022 despite a favorable national political environment.

Before he became speaker, Johnson had raised just over $5 million in his six-plus years in Congress. He’d brought in just over a half-million dollars in the first three quarters of 2023, compared to $15 million for McCarthy, who helped the National Republican Congressional Committee raise more than $40 million last cycle alone. Since 2012, McCarthy’s leadership PAC spent over 10 times more on private jets, restaurants and lodging than other congressional leaders did. According to documents filed with the Federal Election Commission, the United Democracy Project (UDP) Super Pac, which is affiliated with the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, has spent $1.2m against Hostettler. The Republican Jewish Coalition (RJC) Victory Fund has also spent about $950,000 supporting one of Hostettler’s top rivals, the Indiana state senate majority leader, Mark Messmer. Early results for the primary election have already flip-flopped several times, but the most recent tranche showed Fong with a strong lead in first place, followed by Boudreaux and Democrat Marisa Wood.