CA-25: Grassroots campaigns collide in Trump-era showdown
It was just less than a year ago that Mike Garcia was campaigning, along with a sprinkling of brave Republicans who actually thought they had a chance against Katie Hill. She was the skyrocketing young Democratic congresswoman, who along with her Assembly counterpart Christy Smith had flipped their northern L.A./Ventura County districts from red to blue in 2018. For them, the sky was the limit in an ever-bluing district that stretches from Porter Ranch to Simi Valley to Palmdale and Lancaster.
And then it wasn’t.
Flash forward to the end of a tumultuous 2020, and it’s Garcia who is defending the 25th Congressional District seat in this year’s Nov. 3 General Election. Smith, once considered the favorite after Hill resigned, is the challenger.
Voters here have seen three Congress members in the seat in two years.
But as much as the tables turned for the purple 25th in 2020, for Garcia, 44, the platform isn’t all that different than where it started.
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