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    Democrats seek to flip once-solid GOP seats in California on bipartisan support, saying their old party changed for the worse

    by Joe Mozingo and Christine Mai-Duc, Los Angeles Times Nov 05, 2018 5 minutes

    LOS ANGELES - If you had to conjure a stock Republican congressman in coastal Orange County, he might be Harley Rouda - tall and tanned, a wealthy real estate investor with a square jaw, blue eyes and the tough-talking manner of a man who runs his own multimillion-dollar company.

    Except Rouda left the GOP two decades ago.

    Now he is one of two Republicans-turned-Democrat fighting to flip the once famously right-wing county that voted for every Republican candidate for president since Franklin D. Roosevelt - until Donald Trump came along.

    Rouda, 56, is challenging 15-term Republican Rep. Dana Rohrabacher in the 48th Congressional District, the deepest-red part of the county.

    To the northeast, Gil Cisneros, 47, a Navy veteran who won a $266-million lottery, is running against Young Kim, a former state assemblywoman. He soured on the Republican Party when some followers embraced the fallacy, pushed most notably by

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