“The Path to the House Majority Goes Through California”: Nancy Pelosi and Kevin McCarthy’s Home State Could Define the Midterms

Wedged up against the Angeles National Forest, where the Los Angeles and San Bernardino counties meet, is a political battleground. There are many like it in California, a behemoth of a state with 53 congressional districts, a handful of which are home to heated midterm election contests this year. But over the past two election cycles, the fights that have flared up in this sliver of the state—now California’s 27th District—have garnered much intrigue. This was Republican territory for more than two decades until Democrat Katie Hill, in an upset, defeated incumbent Steve Knight in 2018, in what has been… Read Full Article