The passage of California’s Proposition 50 redistricting measure Tuesday turned Republican Rep. Ken Calvert’s GOP-leaning district a deep shade of blue, but on Wednesday, he said he would seek reelection next year in an adjoining GOP-held district that the referendum made even redder.
The only problem for the powerful House Defense Appropriations Subcommittee chairman: He’ll have to go through incumbent Rep. Young Kim, R-Calif., in the redrawn 40th District, and she won’t be a pushover.
Calvert’s 2026 race is one of several pivotal contests that could affect who sits on the Pentagon spending panel, which controls roughly half the appropriations Congress provides each year.
