California Democrats can feel safe to exhale now. Another problem for Democrats could be the nasty California primaries in both the 39th and 48th Districts, where battles between big-spending candidates turned mean. Cisernos is now going on to challenge Republican Assemblywoman Young Kim in the 39th, while The Associated Press hasn’t yet called whether Rouda or Keirstead will advance to challenge GOP Rep. Dana Rohrabacher. National Republicans are sticking with their California strategy of painting Democrats as out-of-touch and tying them to unpopular House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi. “All that energy, which is still building, is going to lift Democrats up and down the ballot,” she said.

Source: Huffington Post June 06, 2018 21:56 UTC