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With little than a week to spell earlier Election Day connected November 5, Republican incumbent Rep. John Duarte and Democratic challenger Adam Gray volition statement unrecorded connected Thursday nighttime arsenic they question the 13th Congressional District, a contention that could assistance find which enactment controls the U.S. House.
“DEBATE NIGHT IN CALIFORNIA: 13th CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT,” volition statesman astatine 7 p.m. PST and volition beryllium moderated by FOX40 News anchor and co-host of Inside California Politics, Nikki Laurenzo, and KGPE CBS47 News anchor Brian Dorman.
The statement volition aerial successful the Sacramento, Stockton and Modesto areas connected FOX40, and successful the Fresno and Visalia areas connected CBS47.
There volition beryllium a livestream of the statement astatine the apical of this article, and the statement volition besides beryllium livestreamed connected YourCentralValley.com, and connected the FOX40 and CBS47 mobile apps.
The contention for the 13th Congressional District is simply a rematch of the 2022 race, which Gray mislaid by 564 votes, the second-closest House contention successful that election.
The territory encompasses the communities betwixt and on the I-5 and Highway 99, from the Tracy country successful the northbound to the Coalinga country successful the south.
Freshman Rep. Duarte comes from a farming household successful the Central Valley and owns 1 of the largest harvest nurseries successful the country, Duarte Nursery.
As a farmer, Duarte clashed with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers implicit violations of the Clean Water Act related to the usage of wetlands for farming. Duarte yet agreed to wage $1.1 cardinal to settee the issue.
In Congress, Duarte serves connected assorted subcommittees, including the Subcommittee connected Highways and Transit; the Subcommittee connected Railroads, Pipelines, and Hazardous Materials; and the Subcommittee connected Water, Wildlife, and Fisheries.
During the campaign, Duarte has framed himself arsenic a much mean Republican who is focused connected bipartisanship.
The congressman has occasionally voted retired of measurement with his chap Republicans connected cardinal bills specified arsenic the 2023 Secure Our Borders Act, which helium said would wounded farmers and noted that it lacked enactment for Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA).
According to his campaign, Gray was calved and raised successful Merced and worked astatine his family's workplace proviso store.
Gray worked arsenic a unit subordinate for assorted California elected officials, including disgraced authorities Senator Ron Calderon, earlier becoming a State Assembly subordinate successful 2012.
Gray held his Assembly spot for 10 years, during which helium besides astatine times went against his party. While successful the Assembly, Gray fought an biology effort by the authorities to restrict the usage of h2o flowing done the portion successful bid to assistance sphere the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta.
