A Laguna Beach real estate broker is launching a campaign to challenge longtime Republican Orange County Rep. Dana Rohrabacher in 2018, and he says his campaign will rest in large part on attacking the congressman's friendly views toward Russia. "The district will vote [Rohrabacher] out because i think there is something with the Russia thing," Roberts said in an interview with The Times. But Roberts said Rohrabacher's sympathetic views of Russia will provide a big enough liability to give him a shot at unseating him. "Dana Rohrabacher is the best candidate to go up against in the nation right now," Roberts said. Some political insiders think Rohrabacher may retire .

Source: Los Angeles Times February 15, 2017 02:23 UTC