{"id":209194,"date":"2026-03-07T16:44:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-07T16:44:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/209194\/"},"modified":"2026-03-07T16:44:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T16:44:09","slug":"california-house-republican-drops-party-runs-as-independent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/209194\/","title":{"rendered":"California House Republican Drops Party, Runs as Independent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>California Rep. Kevin Kiley is ditching the Republican Party to run for re-election as a \u201cno party preference\u201d candidate, days after he announced plans to campaign in a Democratic-leaning district.<\/p>\n<p>The switch to running as an independent is the latest effort by Republicans to adapt to a newly drawn congressional map approved by California voters last year that is squeezing GOP candidates into fewer safe seats.<\/p>\n<p>The congressman, first elected 2022, cast the change as a rebuke of partisanship and gerrymandering.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is no secret I\u2019ve been frustrated, at times disgusted, by the hyper-partisanship in Congress,\u201d Kiley said in a &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"California Rep. Kevin Kiley is ditching the Republican Party to run for re-election as a \u201cno party preference\u201d&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":209195,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7,9,8,6809,23387,991],"class_list":{"0":"post-209194","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-california","8":"tag-california","9":"tag-california-headlines","10":"tag-california-news","11":"tag-election-campaigns","12":"tag-election-results","13":"tag-redistricting"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209194","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=209194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209194\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/209195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}