Rep. Kevin Kiley opts against challenging fellow Republican Tom McClintock

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Northern California Rep.Kevin Kiley (R-Rocklin), whose congressional district was carved up in the redistricting ballot measures approved by voters last year, announced Monday that he would not challenge fellow Republican Rep.

Tom McClintock of Elk Grove.Instead, he plans to run in the Democratic-leaning district where he resides.“It’s true that I was fully prepared to run in [McClintock’s district], having tested the waters and with polls showing a favorable outlook in a ‘safe’ district.

But doing what’s easy and what’s right are often not the same,” Kiley posted on the social media site X.“And at the end of the day, as much as I love the communities in [that] District that I represent now – and as excited as I was about the new ones – seeking office in a district that doesn’t include my hometown didn’t feel right.”Kiley, 41, currently represents a congressional district that spans Lake Tahoe to Sacramento.

He did not respond to requests for comment.But after California voters in November passed Proposition 50 — a ballot measure to redraw the state’s congressional districts in an effort to counter Trump’s moves to increase the numbers of Republicans in Congress — Kiley’s district was sliced up into other districts.California The passage of Proposition 50 means six GOP members of Congress are at risk of losing their seats.As the filing deadline approaches, Kiley pondered his path forward in a decision that was compared by political insiders to the reality television show “The Bachelor.” Who would receive the final rose? McClintock’s new sprawling congressional district includes swaths of gold country, the Central Valley and Death Valley.

The district Kiley opted to run in includes the city of Sacramento and the suburbs of Roseville and Rocklin in Placer County.Kiley was facing headwinds because of the Republican institutional support...