New Gerrymandered CA Congressional District Will Remain In GOP Hands

The redrawn map has remained controversial, with Republicans arguing that California’s district lines already heavily favor Democrats and that additional redistricting further entrenched those advantages.

Despite those concerns, the outcome in the 40th District ensured that a Republican will hold the seat regardless of the general election result.

This means Democrats have been denied an opportunity to flip the district and give the GOP an unexpected advantage in a state where Republicans have often struggled to compete statewide.

The two Republicans are running after “mid-decade redistricting further gerrymandered California’s district lines, which already provided a gross advantage to Congressional Democrats far beyond the party’s proportion of the vote in the state,” Breitbart News reported last month.