GOP Rep. Kevin Kiley goes independent in longshot bid to stay in Congress [View all]
Source: Politico
03/06/2026 09:53 PM EST
SACRAMENTO, California — GOP Rep. Kevin Kiley filed for reelection as an independent Friday, after California’s Democratic gerrymander blew up his existing boundaries, leaving him to run as a longshot in a blue-leaning district.
“Gerrymandering is a plague on democracy, one that Gavin Newsom has brought back to California,” Kiley, a former state lawmaker, said in an X post late Friday. “But there’s a way we can fight back and protect our democracy from his partisan games: by removing partisanship from the equation.”
Kiley has tacked to the middle in recent months, since California Democrats targeted his district in a successful gerrymandering campaign championed by Newsom. He’s repeatedly criticized House Speaker Mike Johnson, broken with Republicans in key votes, blasted partisan redistricting efforts and co-authored bipartisan legislation to extend Affordable Care Act subsidies.
In his social media post, Kiley called both parties “complicit” in an “epidemic of gerrymandering.”
Read more: https://www.politico.com/news/2026/03/06/gop-rep-kevin-kiley-files-for-reelection-as-independent-in-california-00817972
YOUR party STARTED IT over a DECADE ago after Citizen's United in 2010 and OUR PARTY had been trying to draw "fair maps" since 2017 to counter the EGREGIOUS gerrymandering that the GOP promulgated for over a decade and a half.
But since YOUR PARTY started it and then decided to go FULL ON STEROIDS to make it worse, OUR PARTY will FINISH IT.
Gov. Newsom had to remind you about that last year.
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Kevin, you’re confusing Gavin Newsom with Greg Abbott. But hey, we get it — facts were never really your thing.
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Gavin Newsom is shredding our Constitution and subverting the will of voters in the name of wiping out the California Republican Party.
Congress has the power to stop him by passing my bill to halt his corrupt redistricting scheme.
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