By Maya C. Miller, CalMatters

California may have a reputation as a bastion of blue, but there are only so many Democratic voters to go around.

Under Proposition 50 , Gov. Gavin Newsom’s plan to gerrymander California’s congressional maps to favor Democrats, no incumbent Democrat would take on more Republican voters than Rep. Robert Garcia of Long Beach.

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Garcia’s new district, rather than stretching north from his home town into liberal Los Angeles County, would instead shift southward to encompass a coastal slice of conservative Orange County — notably, the conservative-leaning cities of Huntington Beach and Newport Beach.

Absorbing those GOP voters into the 42nd congressional district is a point of

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