NYT:

A day after California voters shrunk the number of safe Republican House seats through a Democratic gerrymander, two endangered incumbents said they would square off against each other in a high-stakes bid for political survival next year.

Representative Ken Calvert, a Riverside County Republican whose 41st Congressional District was carved up and appended to several neighboring districts, said on Wednesday that he would run for the new incarnation of the 40th District, one of the few friendly territories left for Republicans in California.

He made no mention of the fact that the district was already occupied.

Representative Young Kim, an Orange County Republican, is the current 40th District incumbent, and she said on Wednesday that she would not cede her favorable turf without a

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