Election 2024: Why California is Key to Control of Congress

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🗓️ 18 December 2023

⏱️ 57 minutes

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With the Republicans’ majority in the House down to just three votes, control of Congress is very much up in the air next year. And once again the road to a majority for Democrats runs through California. Nonpartisan analysts say five House seats are up for grabs, all of them currently held by Republicans. We’ll check in on those races, plus the hotly contested race to replace Palo Alto Democrat Anna Eshoo who is retiring after 30 years in Washington. Guests: David Wasserman, senior editor & elections analyst, The Cook Political Report, a nonpartisan publication that monitors congressional races. Marisa Lagos, politics correspondent, KQED; co-host of KQED's Political Breakdown show Ivy Cargile, associate professor in Political Science, California State University Bakersfield Paul Mitchell, vice-president, Political Data, Inc. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:34.1	Coming up on forum, with the Republicans majority in the House down to just three votes,
1:41.8	control of Congress is very much up in the air next year, and once again, the road to a majority for Democrats runs through California.
1:47.7	Nonpartisan analysts say four House seats in California are up for grabs, all of them currently held by Republicans, with two others being very competitive.
1:51.8	We'll check in on those races, plus the hotly contested Bay Area race to replace Anna Eschew,
1:57.2	who's retiring after 30 years in Washington, and Kevin McCarthy's open seat where Republicans are fighting among themselves over who's running.
2:04.9	The political landscape for California in 2024 after this news.
2:11.1	This is Forum. I'm Scott Schaefer in for Mina Kim.
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