{"id":1187277,"date":"2022-01-04T13:49:52","date_gmt":"2022-01-04T18:49:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1187277"},"modified":"2022-01-04T13:49:55","modified_gmt":"2022-01-04T18:49:55","slug":"harley-rouda-drops-run-for-congress-after-snub-from-congressional-district","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/harley-rouda-drops-run-for-congress-after-snub-from-congressional-district\/","title":{"rendered":"Harley Rouda Drops Run for Congress After Snub from Congressional District"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fharley-rouda-drops-run-for-congress-after-snub-from-congressional-district%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1187277&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Harley-Rouda-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Former California Rep. Harley Rouda announced he would suspend his congressional campaign after Rep. Katie Porter (D-CA) announced she would run in the same district following the state\u2019s redistricting process.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile I do believe I would represent my district best, I am also pragmatic. I have no interest in running against a Democratic incumbent who has decided to run in this district,\u201d Rouda <a href=\"https:\/\/harleyforcongress.com\/media-center\/suspensionannouncement\/\">said<\/a> in his statement, suspending his campaign and thanking his supporters. \u201cI have no interest in running in a different district where I\u2019ve never had the honor to represent the vast majority of constituents.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>His decision not to run spares him from going against Porter.<\/p>\n<p>Porter would have had an advantage over Rouda. Besides being in Congress an extra two years, she&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/12\/24\/california-democrat-katie-porter-switches-congressional-districts-harley-rouda-considers-retiring\/\">reportedly<\/a> has&nbsp;over $14.5 million cash on hand. In comparison, Rouda only has roughly $600,000.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">While it has been the great honor of my life to serve Orange County&#8217;s Coastal congressional district, I am officially suspending my campaign for Congress.<\/p>\n<p>For a full statement, please visit: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/UL6aPzDiWp\">https:\/\/t.co\/UL6aPzDiWp<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/dqrnnjlTE9\">pic.twitter.com\/dqrnnjlTE9<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Harley Rouda (@HarleyRouda) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HarleyRouda\/status\/1478018316195274753?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 3, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>Breitbart News <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/12\/24\/california-democrat-katie-porter-switches-congressional-districts-harley-rouda-considers-retiring\/\">reported<\/a>, after the redistricting maps were finalized,&nbsp;California&nbsp;incumbent congressional members in both parties&nbsp;started to decide which seat they intended to run for in the midterms.<\/p>\n<p>Rouda&nbsp;planned to reclaim the seat he once had before suffering a significant loss&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2020\/11\/10\/gop-michelle-steel-ousts-democrat-harley-rouda\/\">against<\/a> Republican Rep. Michelle Steel (CA). However, after the newly drawn redistricting lines were finalized last month,&nbsp;Porter announced her intentions to run for&nbsp;California\u2019s Forty-seventh Congressional District, the same one Rouda was planning on running in.<\/p>\n<p>While Porter plans on running in the 47th congressional district, she does not live there. But district residency is not a requirement for House members, though it is considered politically favorable.<\/p>\n<p>A&nbsp;spokesperson for Porter, Jordan Wong, <a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/campaign\/586769-rep-katie-porter-running-for-reelection-in-newly-drawn-california-district\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">told<\/a> the&nbsp;<em>Hill<\/em> that Porter would run in the district since her children go to school there, noting that Porter has not represented the majority of voters in the district in the past.<\/p>\n<p>Steel <a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oc-breeze.com\/2021\/12\/23\/207108_rep-michelle-steel-to-run-in-californias-new-45th-congressional-district\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">announced<\/a>&nbsp;last month that she would run in the forty-fifth congressional district, which&nbsp;encompasses portions of Steel\u2019s current district. The congresswoman has raised over $2.1 million in the first three-quarters of the election cycle.<\/p>\n<p><i>Jacob Bliss is a reporter for Breitbart News. You can follow him on <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jacobmbliss\"><i>Twitter<\/i><\/a><i>.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former California Rep. Harley Rouda announced he would suspend his congressional campaign after Rep. Katie Porter (D-CA) announced she would run in the same district following the state\u2019s redistricting process. &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1187277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1187277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1187277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1187277\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1187277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1187277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1187277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}