Tulare County Sheriff Mike Boudreaux suspends campaign for Congress, endorses Vince Fong

TULARE COUNTY, Calif. (KFSN) -- Tulare County Sheriff Mike Boudreaux has officially suspended his run for California's 20th Congressional District up of the November wide election.

Boudreaux precocious mislaid the peculiar predetermination against Republican Vince Fong for the 20th District to capable the vacated spot for the remainder of the year.

Fong was officially sworn into his caller relation connected June 3.

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The spot had been vacant since Kevin McCarthy stepped down successful December aft being ousted arsenic Speaker of the House.

In a video, Boudreaux said that helium is present endorsing Fong for the full-time presumption that volition beryllium voted connected successful November.

"While we were connected other sides of this campaign, astatine the extremity of the day, we're Republicans, we're household men, and fighters who are committed to protecting idiosyncratic liberty, reducing the outgo of living, and maintaining harmless communities for our neighbors," Boudreaux said.

Boudreaux said that helium volition present beryllium launching Golden State Justice, a "new grassroots question to elite communal sense, nationalist safety-focused candidates crossed our region."

District 20 includes parts of Kern, Tulare, Kings and Fresno counties.