A GOP lawmaker scrambling to win reelection after Democratic California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s gerrymander demolished his district stunningly chose to run in a heavily Democratic seat rather than face a fellow Republican.
Thank you for reading this post, don't forget to subscribe!California Republican Rep. Kevin Kiley announced Monday he will run against a crowded field of Democratic contenders to represent the Golden State’s newly drawn 6th congressional district, which former Vice President Kamala Harris won by nine percentage points in 2024. Kiley said he was considering a run against his GOP colleague, California Republican Rep. Tom McClintock, in the neighboring 5th district, but decided against it, noting, “what’s easy and what’s right are often not the same.” (RELATED: SCOTUS Lets Democrats Keep Gerrymandered Maps Heading Into Midterms)
“It’s true that I was fully prepared to run in the new 5th, having tested the waters and with polls showing a favorable outlook in a ‘safe’ district,” Kiley wrote in a Monday post to X. “But doing what’s easy and what’s right are often not the same. And at the end of the day, as much as I love the communities in the 5th district that I represent now — and as excited as I was about the new ones — seeking office in a district that doesn’t include my hometown didn’t feel right.”
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Kiley’s sprawling Sacramento Valley district — which President Donald Trump carried by four points in 2024 — was carved up and split between six different districts in the new Newsom-backed map, pushing him to run ads in the 5th district to test his name recognition there. However, the decision to mount an uphill battle in the Democratic-friendly 6th district will force him to appeal to more independents and moderates as he looks to further cement himself as a foil to Newsom.
“That’s why President Trump said no one has fought Gavin Newsom harder than Kevin,” a narrator in one of Kiley’s ads says.
In the summer of 2025, the congressman embarked on a massive media blitz to counter Newsom’s gerrymander gambit, which the Democratic governor and rumored 2028 presidential candidate shepherded as a reaction to Texas’ pro-GOP mid-decade redistricting. Kiley took the fight to the House floor at the time proposing a nationwide ban on all mid-decade redistricting — but the legislation he had authored never made it to a vote.
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Wasn’t this the intent?
It was not about fair representation. It was and is about being a political thug, who dined at the French Laundry, took what appears to be a criminal buy for a house as being a good unethical governor if not criminal.
It will be interesting to see how big a liar the gang in Sacramento comes up with. The next election will determine how much the emperor cloths are missing.
It will also be interesting to see how stupid the voters on the Left are as the forced inflation in Calif. becomes.
Did you vote for them? Then you are the problem.
All Newsom did was counter the cheating in Texas from that big orange turd. Yes, Newsom has done some stupid things but not as much as that orange clown in the white house. The peace president just started another war that will cost me and you plenty while he rakes in cash from all his grift. If you voted for that azzhole then YOU are the problem.