Young Kim advances in California House race
California GOP Rep. Young Kim advanced to the general election in a key House race, according to The Associated Press, handing Republicans a win in their effort to take back the House.
Kim, who will face Democrat Asif Mahmood in November, garnered Republican backlash over her repeated efforts at bipartisanship. However, she’s veered more to the right after redistricting, which took her seat from having a 5-point Democratic registration advantage to a 5-point GOP registration advantage.
She faced a challenge in last Tuesday’s primary from her right from Greg Raths, a Mission Viejo councilman and vociferous supporter of former President Trump.
Kim in recent weeks unleashed an avalanche of ad spending, most of it targeted at Raths, largely focusing on her conservative policy platforms, such as touting her opposition to unauthorized border crossings.
Republicans had worried that Raths would be more vulnerable in November given that the Orange County-based district is not as conservative as his own reputation.
California employs what’s known as a jungle primary, which has candidates of all parties run in one primary and the top two vote getters advancing to the general election if no candidate gets over 50 percent of the vote.
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