Democrats’ route to the House majority runs through California more than any other state. Nationally, they need to win 23 GOP seats to win the chamber, and in California alone, there are seven Republican incumbents sitting in seats Hillary Clinton carried in 2016. Four of those seven seats include at least a piece of Orange County, which in 2016 voted for a Democrat for president for the first time since 1936.
But California’s unusual “top two” primary — combined with an explosion in the number of Democratic candidates running in 2018 — could throw a wrench into Democrats’ fall plans in Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi’s backyard. CONT.
David Wasserman, Cook Political Report