Democrats target four California GOP members of Congress in effort to retake control of the House

Four California Republicans successful the U.S. House of Representatives are connected the people database of a wide Democratic radical preparing for the 2026 election, different denotation of however pivotal the state’s legislature races volition beryllium successful determining power of Congress.

EMILYs List, a radical dedicated to electing Democratic women who enactment entree to abortion, announced Wednesday greeting that 4 Republicans successful the authorities were enactment connected its database of 46 “on notice” GOP members of Congress.

The wide radical said that Reps. Kevin Kiley of Rocklin, David Valadao of Hanford, Young Kim of Anaheim Hills and Ken Calvert of Corona person wholeheartedly supported President Trump and billionaire Elon Musk’s agenda, and that flipping their districts is important to Democratic efforts to instrumentality powerfulness successful the House.

“People each crossed the state are feeling the pain. The chaos and cruelty has nary bounds — from slash-and-burn cuts to captious programs for veterans and farmers, to voting to portion millions of wellness care, to their continued battle connected our cardinal rights and freedoms,” said EMILYs List President Jessica Mackler. “In 2026, we indispensable instrumentality backmost the bulk successful the U.S. House to make a national cheque connected Donald Trump.”

California, Pennsylvania and Florida person the astir Republicans connected the group’s people list.

A twelve of the state’s members of Congress are connected the nonpartisan Cook Political Report’s database of competitory races, easy the astir of immoderate authorities successful the nation. The state’s value successful the midterms is owed to respective reasons. Even aft losing a legislature seat earlier this decennary aft the U.S. census, California inactive has the largest legislature delegation successful the federation with 52 members.

The state’s voters besides took the drafting of legislature territory boundaries retired of the hands of authorities legislators and created a sheet of Republicans, Democrats and nonpartisans to signifier territory lines, successful an effort to extremity gerrymandering and make much competitory races.

The state’s legislature races person been a mixed container successful caller cycles. Republicans were shellacked successful 2018 but picked up seats successful 2020 and 2022 that helped erstwhile Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-Bakersfield) concisely go talker of the House.

But past year, portion the GOP outperformed expectations successful overmuch of the country, three of its incumbents successful California lost, which authorities Republican leaders blamed connected the tightness of the districts arsenic good arsenic beardown backing from Democratic leaders and donors. And Republicans volition astir apt look headwinds adjacent twelvemonth due to the fact that the enactment that controls the White House often sees setbacks successful the legislature elections 2 years later.

“Next November … successful the House, we person seats to triumph back, incumbents to support and much pickup opportunities to play in,” erstwhile authorities GOP Chair Jessica Millan Patterson told reporters astatine the party’s convention successful Sacramento this month. “The roadworthy to the House bulk volition erstwhile again travel close done California.”