{"id":81796,"date":"2025-12-04T21:03:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T21:03:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/81796\/"},"modified":"2025-12-04T21:03:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T21:03:10","slug":"darrell-issa-staying-in-california-after-mulling-texas-move","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/81796\/","title":{"rendered":"Darrell Issa staying in California after mulling Texas move"},"content":{"rendered":"

LOS ANGELES (AP) \u2014 After flirting with the idea of leaving California to run for Congress in Texas, Republican Rep. Darrell Issa said Thursday he\u2019s staying put.<\/p>\n

\u201cI can hold this seat. I\u2019m not quitting on California and neither should anyone else,\u201d Issa, who represents a district anchored in San Diego County, said in a statement.<\/p>\n

Issa\u2019s brief, footloose impulse was prompted by the November approval of a new U.S. House map<\/a> in California that drastically reshaped some districts \u2014 including his own \u2014 in advance of the midterm elections. Spearheaded by Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom, the rejiggered districts are intended to tip as many as five GOP seats to Democrats next year to offset President Donald Trump\u2019s moves in Texas<\/a> to gain five Republican seats. <\/p>\n

With Republicans protecting the party\u2019s fragile majority, the national battle over House control has spiraled into other states. Much uncertainty remains, as court battles<\/a> play out across the country over the new districts. A court has blocked the new Texas districts approved by Republican state officials, and the Supreme Court is deciding whether to weigh in.<\/p>\n

In his statement, the wealthy car alarm magnate said Texas House members and residents asked him to consider running there after voters in California approved Newsom\u2019s map. <\/p>\n

\u201cI appreciate the opportunity, but California is my home. I told them I\u2019m going to stay in Congress, and I don\u2019t need to go to Texas for that,\u201d Issa said. He said he trusts the voters he represents in San Diego and Riverside counties to consider his record and support him regardless of their party registration.<\/p>\n

Issa has moved before during his political career, trading an increasingly blue coastal district for a redder inland area east of San Diego. However, his current district has been redrawn to include the Democratic stronghold of Palm Springs, making it far more difficult for Issa to be reelected. <\/p>\n

His possible cross-country move was greeted with skepticism from one influential Republican, Rep. Richard Hudson of North Carolina, who heads the campaign arm of the House GOP.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve encouraged Darrell to run in his current district,\u201d Hudson said Wednesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LOS ANGELES (AP) \u2014 After flirting with the idea of leaving California to run for Congress in Texas,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":80895,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7,9,8,1312,7668,536,989,457,18,45076,33117,13,46233,564,6141,6139,9111],"class_list":["post-81796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news","tag-courts","tag-darrell-issa","tag-donald-trump","tag-elections","tag-gavin-newsom","tag-general-news","tag-house-elections","tag-local-news-for-apple","tag-politics","tag-richard-hudson","tag-texas","tag-u-s-republican-party","tag-united-states-house-of-representatives","tag-washington-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81796","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=81796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81796\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}