Southern California coastal enclave, once a GOP redoubt, is a target for both parties.
IRVINE, California — Orange County was once so reliably red that then-President Ronald Reagan affectionately said the coastal enclave south of Los Angeles is “where good Republicans go to die.” Decades later, Orange County Republicans want to show the area can still be Reagan country or at least something like it.
The district's competitiveness shows how much Orange County has changed politically through the decades. Once home to conservative celebrities like the late John Wayne and later Chuck Norris, Orange County's shift to the political center reflects California as a whole. California voted for the Republican presidential nominee six straight times from 1968-1988, including twice for favorite sons Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan when each won two White House terms.
That margin can be deceiving though, as the House district contains plenty of Reagan-style Republicans, not to mention a good chunk of Trumpists. And Porter herself won reelection there in 2022 relatively narrowly, beating Republican rival Scott Baugh 51.6% to 48.4%. But there’s another prominent Democratic candidate in the race, former Rep. Harley Rouda. The real estate executive won a coastal Orange County House district in the 2018 Democratic wave, defeating a 30-year incumbent. But Rouda’s political fortunes went south two years later when House Republicans unexpectedly picked up House seats, even while Trump lost the White House to Biden.
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