{"id":38611,"date":"2025-11-05T04:31:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-05T04:31:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/38611\/"},"modified":"2025-11-05T04:31:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T04:31:10","slug":"if-prop-50-passes-huntington-beach-would-be-led-by-rep-garcia-nbc-los-angeles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/38611\/","title":{"rendered":"If Prop 50 passes, Huntington Beach would be led by Rep. Garcia \u2013 NBC Los Angeles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbclosangeles.com\/tag\/huntington-beach\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.nbclosangeles.com\/tag\/huntington-beach\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Huntington Beach<\/a>, one of the more conservative Southern California cities, faces the possibility of becoming part of a different congressional district if <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbclosangeles.com\/news\/local\/who-is-funding-prop-50-california-redistricting\/3788198\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.nbclosangeles.com\/news\/local\/who-is-funding-prop-50-california-redistricting\/3788198\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Prop 50<\/a> passes.<\/p>\n<p>The coastal city whose city council is made up of all Republican elected officials would become part of Congressional District 42, led by Rep. Robert Garcia, instead of Congressional District 47.<\/p>\n<p>While Rep. Dave Min is also a Democrat who currently represents Huntington Beach and other parts of Congressional District 47, the idea of being represented by Garcia, a gay, progressive Democrat, may not sit well with some, including Huntington Beach Mayor Pat Burns.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t trust him,\u201d Burns said about Garcia. \u201cI (saw) him on TV, chanting in these rallies. He\u2019s (drunk) the poison of the Democrat party, and he\u2019s all in for the big show, and not for what\u2019s right.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Burns, a very vocal and strong supporter of President Donald Trump, said he does not believe Garcia would fight for the people of Huntington Beach.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe love America. We love this community, and we want to preserve it,\u201d Burns said while getting emotional. \u201cIt\u2019s important.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mmTitle\">2024 presidential election results in District 42<\/p>\n<p class=\"mmBlurb\">According to analyses performed by The Downballot. Zoom out to see other areas in California<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size:14px\">\n Strong lean Trump<br \/>\n Moderate lean Trump<br \/>\n Mild lean Trump<br \/>Mild lean Harris<br \/>\n Moderate lean Harris<br \/>\n Strong lean Harris\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size:18px !important;font-weight: bold;margin-bottom: 5px\">Current legislative districts<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size:18px !important;font-weight: bold;margin-bottom: 5px\">New legislative districts<\/p>\n<p>If Congressional District 42 is redrawn, it would lower registered Democrats within the region from 53% to 40% while registered Republicans would jump from 18% to 30%.<\/p>\n<p>But Rep. Garcia said he\u2019s confident he can win the newly drawn district and work with local leaders across the party lines.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt the end of the day, I know I\u2019m going to represent everyone,\u201d said Garcia, former Long Beach mayor. \u201cI think whether you\u2019re a republican in Newport Beach or a Democrat in Seal Beach, at the end of day, people want you to focus on what\u2019s going to make their lives better.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Orange County is one of the few purple counties in California as Democrats make up 36% of the registered voters while Republicans represent 34%.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Huntington Beach, one of the more conservative Southern California cities, faces the possibility of becoming part of a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":38612,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[989,588,131,133,132],"class_list":["post-38611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-elections","tag-huntington-beach","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38611","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=38611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38611\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}