Ed Royce is a really big retirement for the Democrats. Clinton won his district by 9 points; He won by 15 points, was still considered lean R by ratings folks. Not anymore.
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Unlike a lot of the Sun Belt districts, CA-39 isn't coming out of nowhere. Registration is ~R+1.5, Romney won it by 3. It's not a district where the GOP can just fall back on heavy Republican tradition
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Royce was ready for the fight, too. Was raising plenty of money; had $3.5m in the bank at the end of the last quarter.
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(though I guess that's not quite as intimidating as it usually would be, after Andy Thornburn gave his own campaign $2 million)
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One Woman running...
Primary candidates:
Democratic Gil Cisneros
Democratic Sam Jammal
Democratic Phil Janowicz
Democratic Ted Rusk[15]
Democratic Andy Thorburn
Democratic Mai Khanh Tran
Republican Edward Royce - Incumbent
Grey Julio Castañeda (Onde)
Grey Steve Cox (Inde)
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SALT deductions are going to be huge in Orange County, perhaps a game changer.
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The GOP's efforts to screw wealthy blue states by curbing the SALT deduction, among other things, isn't going to help them in California, even in a reddish district.
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