{"id":115282,"date":"2025-12-31T19:17:26","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T19:17:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/115282\/"},"modified":"2025-12-31T19:17:26","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T19:17:26","slug":"attorney-curtis-morrison-ends-congressional-bid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/115282\/","title":{"rendered":"Attorney Curtis Morrison ends congressional bid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/timesofsandiego.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/FORUM4.png?ssl=1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"780\" height=\"439\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/FORUM4.png\" alt=\"Curtis Morrison at forum\" class=\"wp-image-340346\"  \/><\/a>Curtis Morrison at forum<\/p>\n<p>The race for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.congress.gov\/member\/district\/darrell-issa\/I000056\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">California\u2019s 48th Congressional District<\/a> is moving forward Wednesday without <a href=\"https:\/\/curtisforcongress.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Curtis Morrison<\/a>, who announced he is ending his campaign to focus on his work as an immigration attorney.<\/p>\n<p>Morrison, a Democrat, told supporters in an email sent around 9 p.m. Tuesday that escalating federal actions require his full attention.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith the Trump administration\u2019s escalating war on legal immigrants, the communities I serve need my advocacy in courts more than ever,\u201d he wrote. \u201cThus, I no longer have time to devote to the CA-48 race.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you supported my campaign, know that your support was appreciated, and I hope you can understand my decision.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Morrison withdraws from a crowded race. San Diego City Councilwoman Marni von Wilpert, Vista City Councilwoman Corinna Contreras and former Obama staffer Ammar Campa-Najjar are among the Democrats vying to challenge Republican Rep. Darrell Issa.<\/p>\n<p>The newly drawn district includes North County San Diego, portions of western Riverside County and part of Palm Springs. The district holds a 4-point Democratic registration edge. San Diego County makes up 49% of the new district, with western Riverside 44% and the Palm Springs portion just 7%.<\/p>\n<p>The 48th is one of five districts redrawn thanks to the statewide Prop 50 vote to gerrymander the state in response to the Texas legislature taking a similar \u2014 but not voted upon \u2014 tack. <\/p>\n<p>The unprecedented mid-decade redistricting action was ruled constitutional by the U.S. Supreme Court in December.<\/p>\n<p>Issa called Prop 50 \u201cthe worst gerrymander in history.\u201d He unsuccessfully sued in an effort to block the measure, but said in a statement, \u201cI\u2019m not going anywhere. I\u2019ll continue to represent the people of California \u2014 regardless of their party or where they live.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>READ NEXT<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Curtis Morrison at forum The race for California\u2019s 48th Congressional District is moving forward Wednesday without Curtis Morrison,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":115283,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[61593,1752,61594,7668,1751,14,61595,74,76,75],"class_list":{"0":"post-115282","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-diego","8":"tag-ca-48","9":"tag-congress","10":"tag-curtis-morrison","11":"tag-darrell-issa","12":"tag-democrats","13":"tag-immigration","14":"tag-immigration-lawyer","15":"tag-san-diego","16":"tag-san-diego-headlines","17":"tag-san-diego-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115282\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/115283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}