{"id":480742,"date":"2026-09-30T19:04:45","date_gmt":"2026-09-30T19:04:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/480742\/"},"modified":"2026-09-30T19:04:45","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T19:04:45","slug":"house-speaker-mike-johnson-to-join-david-valadao-for-bakersfield-rally-on-wednesday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/480742\/","title":{"rendered":"House Speaker Mike Johnson to join David Valadao for Bakersfield rally on Wednesday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) &#8212; To help garner support and boost votes in the Central Valley, Speaker of the House Mike Johnson will be joining Rep. David Valadao in Bakersfield for a Rally Tuesday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The rally comes as Congressional District 22 is poised to be one of the nation&#8217;s battleground districts this upcoming midterm elections.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a data-ylk=\"slk:Watch 17 News, After Sunrise and more local news free on your smart TV. Click to learn more about KGET+;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kget.com\/plus\/\" class=\"promo-link__link\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0Watch 17 News, After Sunrise and more local news free on your smart TV. Click to learn more about KGET+\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Valadao will be facing off against political newcomer and progressive candidate Randy Villegas, who has raked in support, endorsements and campaign contributions from around the country.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Villegas is expected to host a rally with U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders this upcoming Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The location of Wednesday&#8217;s event is provided to rallygoers upon RSVPing to the event, Valadao&#8217;s office said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Stay up to date with Wednesday&#8217;s rally with 17 News&#8217; live blog.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Copyright 2026 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.<a data-ylk=\"slk:For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to KGET 17 News.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kget.com\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to KGET 17 News.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) &#8212; To help garner support and boost votes in the Central Valley, Speaker of the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":480743,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152,14021,328,11292,132464,88809],"class_list":["post-480742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield-headlines","tag-bakersfield-news","tag-david-valadao","tag-kget","tag-mike-johnson","tag-randy-villegas","tag-senator-bernie-sanders"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480742","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=480742"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480742\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/480743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=480742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=480742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=480742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}