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LOS ANGELES – In the combat for the U.S. House, Democrats are hoping popular stone prima powerfulness volition assistance oust a long-serving Republican eastbound of Los Angeles arsenic the enactment looks to regain power of the enclosure and dilatory President Donald Trump’s agenda.
Tim Myers, a Grammy-nominated erstwhile bassist for planetary hitmakers OneRepublic, announced Thursday helium volition situation Rep. Ken Calvert successful the battleground 41st District successful Riverside County that stretches from the L.A. suburbs to the edifice haven of Palm Springs.
“Ken Calvert has been successful Washington for 30 years,” Myers says successful a video announcing his campaign. The “status quo isn't working.”
Christian Martinez, a spokesperson for the run limb of House Republicans, said successful a connection that “Democrat Tim Myers is everything incorrect with today’s extremist left: a Hollywood wide trying to fake his mode into Riverside County."
Myers grew up successful Corona, astir of which is successful the district, but present lives successful neighboring Los Angeles County.
At a clip erstwhile competitory House contests are becoming scarcer nationwide, Democrats see Calvert's intimately divided California territory 1 of the party’s champion opportunities to summation crushed successful the chamber, wherever Republicans clasp a fragile 220-213 majority.
With Congress and the White House nether Republican power — and Democrats facing an uphill combat to instrumentality the Senate successful 2026 — the California contention volition transportation added value arsenic Democrats maneuver to retake the House to supply a counterweight to the Trump medication connected issues from migration to the environment.
Myers, a prolific producer, songwriter and solo artist, is positioning himself arsenic a alteration cause successful a contention against 1 of the astir elder members of the House. The 40-year-old Myers said helium was successful 2nd people erstwhile Calvert, the longest-serving Republican successful the state’s legislature delegation, was archetypal elected successful 1992.
In the video that appears to person been filmed successful a signaling studio, Myers recalls increasing up a pastor's lad successful Corona, connected the occidental borderline of the Southern California district. He recounts the ups-and-downs of the notoriously cutthroat euphony concern that yet led him to recovered his ain grounds label. He present lives successful the tony enclave of Hidden Hills successful neighboring Los Angeles County, a fashionable redoubt for musicians and actors.
Myers berates Trump policies that helium says volition wounded veterans and thrust up user prices.
“Our assemblage is being priced retired of homeownership, groceries are much costly each week and we’re perpetually nether menace from wildfires and rising crime,” Myers said successful a statement. “It’s clip for a change.”
Republicans clasp a slim registration vantage successful the territory — little than 2 points implicit Democrats — and Calvert has bushed backmost pugnacious challenges successful the past 2 elections. Calvert prevailed by astir a 3-point borderline successful 2024, the aforesaid twelvemonth Trump carried the territory by 6 points implicit Democrat Kamala Harris, the erstwhile California U.S. legislator and lawyer general.
The run limb of House Democrats has named Calvert a apical people for 2026, arsenic helium was successful 2024. Calvert's run raised implicit $1.3 cardinal the archetypal 4th of 2025.
California is known arsenic a wide protectorate. Democrats clasp each statewide office, predominate the Legislature and legislature delegation and outnumber registered Republicans by a staggering 2-1 ratio. Still, Republicans clasp pockets of governmental clout successful the Southern California suburbs and immense agrarian stretches, including the Central Valley workplace belt.
In 2024, a pugnacious twelvemonth for Democrats nationally, the enactment picked up three GOP-held House seats successful California.
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