Republican Vince Fong set to hold South Valley Congressional seat, helping other Valley Republicans

Amid high-profile legislature races passim Central California, the state's 20th Congressional District volition beryllium a harmless spot for Republicans and incumbent Vince Fong.

"At the extremity of the day, aft the predetermination is implicit and the particulate settles, we've got to govern," Fong precocious told Action News.

He has served successful Congress since June.

Voters elected him to decorativeness the remainder of Kevin McCarthy's word aft Republicans stripped him of the House Speakership, and helium resigned.

Fong, who erstwhile worked for McCarthy, is present moving for a full, two-year word that would statesman successful January.

"(There is) a tremendous magnitude of enactment that inactive needs to beryllium done successful presumption of trying to get our h2o argumentation backmost connected track," Fong said.

He is not the lone Republican connected the ballot, but the lone 1 inactive successful the race.

Tulare County Sheriff Mike Boudreaux suspended his run for Congress and endorsed Fong conscionable weeks aft losing to him successful the May peculiar election.

Even though Boudreaux dropped out, the sheriff's sanction remains connected the November ballot.

"We're spending a batch of clip and resources not lone sharing our imaginativeness but communicating that we got to unite," Fong said of the concern involving Boudreaux.

"We got to unite arsenic a community."

While Fong does not person immoderate ceremonial challengers, his Republican colleagues do.

Republican David Valadao and Democrat Rudy Salas are facing disconnected successful the South Valley, and Republican John Duarte and Democrat Adam Gray are connected ballots successful the North Valley.

Both contests are rematches of 2022 races Republicans won by constrictive margins. Duarte bushed Gray by 564 votes.

If Democrats triumph this time, the races could flip power of the House.

"The Republican House bulk comes done California. We person a precise constrictive bulk close present successful Washington, D.C. We person six competitory races, incumbents moving successful California," Fong said.

Federal filings amusement Fong with astir $150,000 successful currency arsenic helium campaigns for and sends resources to Valadao and Duarte.

Fong is besides focused connected the Central California issues helium wants to lick successful the caller Congress.

"It's the border," Fong said.

"People are acrophobic astir their nationalist information erstwhile it comes to fentanyl and quality trafficking, and it's the affordability crisis, which is real."

Fong says helium is lone moving for Congress, but immoderate South Valley voters volition spot his sanction connected the ballot twice, erstwhile for Congress and erstwhile for the State Assembly.

Fong filed for re-election to the State Assembly earlier deciding to tally for Congress.

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