California\u2019s 40th District<\/a> was originally made up mostly of Orange County cities. In the new maps, the district covers more communities in the Inland Empire, including Murrieta, Lake Elsinore and Menifee.<\/p>\n Keep up with LAist.<\/p>\n
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What do the early results say about the region?<\/p>\n
Mike Moodian, a Chapman University lecturer and public policy analyst, said District 40 was always an uphill battle for Democrats because of registration numbers.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe powers that be that drew those lines basically figured that \u2026 they would concede that more or less to a Republican, so that they could allow for comfortable margins. They could allow Democrats to pick up some seats elsewhere in the state,\u201d Moodian told the LAist.<\/p>\n
Moodian said Calvert\u2019s significant lead ahead of Kim could be because more than half the District is Calvert\u2019s old district.<\/p>\n
The 40th was redrawn as a \u201cRepublican voter sink,\u201d Christian Grose, USC professor of political science, told the LAist.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think it’s the only Republican district remaining in all Southern California,\u201d Grose said. \u201cSo, in some ways, it’s not that surprising that two long-term impressive incumbents are fighting each other in the general.\u201d<\/p>\n
The person who comes in first in the primaries typically advances, but not always, Grose added.<\/p>\n
\u201cKim will presumably try to get some of the Democratic and independent voters who didn’t vote for either one of them,\u201d Grose said. She might be better positioned for that.\u201d<\/p>\n
Is this a loss for Democrats?<\/p>\n
Not quite, Moodian said. The two Republicans will now have to spend a significant amount of money to beat each other in November, he added.<\/p>\n
\u201cObviously, local Democrats and Democrats in District 40 are certainly not excited about the fact that two Republicans have advanced, but to me this is what the statewide Democrats had in mind when they redrew the lines,\u201d Moodian said. \u201cThis allows them to attempt to pick up more seats, and at the same time basically eliminate one Republican congressmember by having these two face off against each other.\u201d<\/p>\n
What do the candidates say?<\/p>\n
In a statement, Calvert said Tuesday night\u2019s early results show “that voters want an effective and consistent conservative who has been with President Trump from Day One.\u201d<\/p>\n
Chris Pack, spokesperson for Young Kim, said in a statement, \u201cDespite being outspent 10 to 1, we are confident that Congresswoman Kim will be advancing to the November election and that she\u2019ll put an end to Ken Calvert\u2019s 30-plus years of failing to deliver for the people of Southern California.”<\/p>\n
What\u2019s next?<\/p>\n
The two top candidates will likely face off in the November election. It could take days for results to finalize in California. Keep up to date with the Primary Election results here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Despite the state\u2019s redistricting efforts, California\u2019s District 40 will likely be represented by a Republican congressperson. As of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":346464,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7,9,8,119837,16968,142094,15618,27090],"class_list":["post-346463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news","tag-california-primary","tag-congressional-redistricting","tag-district-40","tag-ken-calvert","tag-young-kim"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346463","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=346463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346463\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/346464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=346463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=346463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=346463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}