First Person is a series of quick videos from the Cook Political Report editors exclusively for our premium members.

This week, Erin discusses the the most interesting House races to watch in California ahead of next years midterms.

Transcript:

So here at the Cook Political Report in the off year, we go through and write updated analysis on every single congressional district in the country, which is, as you can imagine, quite a task, but we go through the states alphabetically.So we are currently on California, which, of course, has fifty two congressional districts, the biggest in the country and is quite a, a task to get through. But I'm gonna go through and talk about a couple of races that are probably the most interesting when we're talking about control of the house in twenty twenty six. These are the two races in California that we have rated as pure toss-up. And that's California's thirteenth district held by Democrat Adam Gray and California's forty fifth district held by Democrat Derek Tran.So the thirteenth district is in

What is The Cook Political Report?

The Cook Political Report is an independent, non-partisan newsletter that analyzes elections and campaigns for the US House of Representatives, US Senate, Governors and President as well as American political trends.

Subscribe Today

More from the Cook Political Report

First Person
Cook Politcal Logo