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Maanvi Singh in San Francisco

QAnon and red-baiting: California midterm races turn vitriolic

A table at a polling station in Los Angeles has a 'Vote' sign with the American flag.
Congressional districts in California have become rancorous. Photograph: Robyn Beck/AFP/Getty Images

In Orange county, California, the Republican congresswoman Michelle Steel is running ads using doctored images to depict her Democratic opponent Jay Chen as sympathetic to communist China. In Los Angeles, the incumbent Democratic representative Jimmy Gomez has sent out flyers accusing his progressive challenger David Kim of “campaigning with QAnon support”.

In several congressional districts in the Golden state, close races in recent weeks have become vitriolic.

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