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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsDemocrats Are Setting Their Sights on "Putin's Favorite Congressman"
Rep. Dana Rohrabacher has been reelected 13 times. But then Donald Trump came along.Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-Calif.) won his first election to the House of Representatives in 1988 with 64 percent of the vote. He's been reelected 13 times since then. And even though he walloped his most recent challenger by nearly 17 percentage points, some Democrats now think that this could be the final term for the Southern California conservative Politico has dubbed "Putin's favorite congressman."
Protesters, sometimes numbering in the hundreds, assemble outside Rohrabacher's office every Tuesday at 1 p.m. "He has been our congressman for a long time," laments Diana Carey, vice chair of the Democratic Party of Orange County. "But because the district was predominantly Republican, my view is he's been on cruise control." Thanks to changing demographics in Orange County and newly fired-up liberal voters, Carey doesn't think Rohrabacher's seat is safe anymore.
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Democrats Are Setting Their Sights on "Putin's Favorite Congressman" (Original Post)
blue-wave
Jun 2017
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gratuitous
(82,849 posts)1. Fight, fight, fight
Let's retire this garbanzo.
Scurrilous
(38,687 posts)2. K&R
kimbutgar
(21,137 posts)3. Him and Nunez will make me do phone banking in my state California
They are not California but Russian agents.
Bernardo de La Paz
(49,001 posts)4. Rohrabacher supports REPUBLICAN President Trump bigly
https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/congress-trump-score/dana-rohrabacher/
Not only is he the Minority President, but he is the Republican President.
SunSeeker
(51,550 posts)5. Go Harley Rouda! Unseat that traitor!