CA-13: John Duarte (R) vs. Adam Gray (D) for Congress: Why experts are watching this California election
California’s 13th Congressional District, home to one of the nation’s closest House of Representatives races in 2022, is expected to be just as hotly contested this fall.
Nonpartisan political analysts say that the 2024 rematch election between freshman Rep. John Duarte, R-Modesto, and former Assemblyman Adam Gray, D-Merced, is a tossup.
Gray lost to Duarte, a farmer and businessman, by 564 votes — about four-tenths of a percentage point — in 2022. Duarte prevailed on the second-smallest margin of any House race winner nationwide that year.
The Bee has spoken to nonpartisan analysts at The Cook Political Report, Inside Elections and Sabato’s Crystal Ball over the past year about the race, which is drawing a lot of national attention to the San Joaquin Valley, a politically purple agricultural section of California.
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