Democrats Want to Flip Six Seats in California
LOS ANGELES—If any proof were needed that interest in the hotly contested Southern California midterm races extends far beyond the turf in play, it could be found on a recent Sunday afternoon near the UCLA campus here in Westwood.
That’s where a couple of dozen volunteers at L.A.’s Westside Democratic Headquarters had gathered to staff a phone bank backing Katie Porter, a business-law professor at the University of California at Irvine who is challenging Representative Mimi Walters in Orange County’s heavily Republican 45th Congressional District 50 miles away.
In a room full of campaign paraphernalia—$6 Donald Trump flyswatters and a poster proclaiming The Big Blue Wave Starts With You—Porter showed up in person to cheer on the troops. “When we win, it will be because of the phone calls and door knocking and outreach that everyone here and in the district is doing,” she told them, her voice hoarse from a long weekend of campaigning. “Our democracy is built; it is not bought.”
