Blue State/Red District
Seven Restless GOP Districts Revisited
This week, in a run-up to the June 5 primary, we are re-highlighting our profiles of seven Republic congressional districts whose flipping would signal a fundamental groundswell against the Trump administration.
On February 1 Capital & Main launched its Blue State/Red District series profiling seven Republican-held congressional red districts — specifically, the challenges shaping their destinies and the policy rifts between the districts’ representatives and their constituents. We began the series because, in 2016, seven of California’s 14 Republican-held congressional districts returned all GOP incumbents to the House of Representatives, yet majorities in seven of those districts chose Hillary Clinton over Donald Trump for president. The districts were located in places long associated with rock-ribbed conservatism: The High Desert, Orange County, interior San Diego County and the Central Valley.
This week, in a run-up to the June 5 primary, we are rerunning these stories in the hope of returning attention to these key districts, whose flipping would signal a fundamental groundswell against the Trump administration and its policies.
CA 49 (Northern and Central San Diego County) — Kelly Candaele. Co-published by International Business Times.
CA 48 (Coastal Orange County) — Judith Lewis Mernit. Co-published by The American Prospect.
CA 10 (Central Valley) — Larry Buhl. Co-published by International Business Times.
CA 25 (High Desert) — Steve Appleford. Co-published by International Business Times.
CA 21 (San Joaquin Valley) — Larry Buhl.
CA 45 (Orange County) — Judith Lewis Mernit. Co-published by International Business Times.
CA 4 (The Gold Country) — Kelly Candaele.
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