2018 house races

For the very first time since April of 2017, when Real Clear Politics first started monitoring the average, the Democrat advantage in the generic ballot has dipped below 5 percent, to just 4.7 percent.

Left-wing billionaire Tom Steyer announced Monday that he will not run for U.S. Senate or for Governor of California in 2018. Instead, he will spend $30 million to defeat Republicans in 24 key U.S. House races.

Omar Navarro, 28, the conservative Latino challenger to Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA), 78, has racked up a growing list of high-profile donors and advisers.

Former State Assemblyman and 2014 gubernatorial candidate Tim Donnelly (R) has declared his candidacy for Congress in California’s eighth congressional district in 2018, challenging incumbent Rep. Paul Cook (R-CA).

Left-wing “resistance” activists flooded a town hall meeting Monday held by Rep. Doug LaMalfa (R-CA) in Chico, California, with one attendee taunting the congressman: “May you die in pain!”

At least 20 alumni of the Obama administration are running for political office throughout the United States of America, and especially in California, to secure former President Barack Obama’s legacy.

California State Assemblyman Jimmy Gomez (D-Los Angeles) won a runoff election Tuesday to replace former Rep. Xavier Becerra as the U.S. Representative for the 34th congressional district, defeating an effort by attorney Robert Lee Ahn to become the first Korean-American member of Congress.

There is, as usual, a way for Trump to overcome the political challenges he faces. But first there are several strategic realities facing him that must be acknowledged.

There is no unifying theme to the “Resistance” yet, other than opposition to all things Trump. But that may be enough, unless Republicans can muster enough enthusiasm among their own base.

Kevin McCarthy of Bakersfield is in the Democrats’ crosshairs, drawing a “Republican” opponent, who sounds more like a Democrat in disguise, exploiting California’s relatively new “top two” primary system.

When Speaker Paul Ryan finally called last week for a vote of the House of Representatives for the American Healthcare Act (AHCA), the Republican plan described by Ryan as the “repeal and replace” bill for Obamacare, there seemed to be some surprise that the entire 14-member California Republican delegation voted for it.

Every singe Republican member of the state’s congressional delegation voted for the American Health Care Act on Thursday, helping the legislation to squeak by on a narrow 217-213 vote.

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi is about to “feel the Bern” from San Francisco employment attorney Stephen R. Jaffe, a lifelong Democrat who was inspired by Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) to challenge Pelosi for her seat in 2018.

A new report in the Orange County Register suggests that Republican Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) of San Diego has turned to the left after nearly losing his congressional seat in the 2016 election, in a state where being anti-Trump may help (or not).

The voters’ patience is not infinite, and if Republicans fail to repeal Obamacare, expect massive stay-aways next November — a Tea Party in reverse.