LOS ANGELES — U.S. Rep. Jim Costa is something of an outlier in liberal-minded California — a centrist Democrat who supported the Keystone XL pipeline and was one of the last holdouts to line up behind President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul. Costa has survived tough campaigns before, but the greatest threat to his future representing a district from California's agriculture-rich Central Valley isn’t coming from a Republican this year. The former chair of Congress’ moderate Blue Dog Coalition is one of more than a dozen Democratic House incumbents in the state facing challenges from the party's political left, underlining the long-running tension between the liberal wing and center-left establishment that is again shaping the Democratic presidential campaign. How far to the political left will California go? Early voting in California's primary begins Monday and continues through election day on March 3.

Source: New York Times February 01, 2020 16:18 UTC