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.

Under the new Proposition 50 map, Calvert’s current 41st District would go from one President Donald Trump carrie

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