It’s political déjà vu all over again in cities like Corona, Menifee, Lake Elsinore and Palm Springs, all part of California’s Congressional District 41.
“Are you feeling fired up. Are you ready to fire Ken Calvert?” said Democrat Will Rollins.
Rollins’ campaign to defeat Republican Rep. Ken Calvert is in its third year after coming up short in the 2022 midterms. But Rollins says this time around feels different.
“I represent change,” said Rollins. “We’ve had 32 years of this guy and we need new blood in Washington, D.C., in both parties. But that’s never going to happen if we keep sending the same people back there who have been in Congress since I was 8 years old.”
ABC7 caught up with Rollins at a campaign event in Corona the same day House Speaker Mike Johnson was in the Inland Empire campaigning for Calvert. It’s a sign of how competitive the race is and how important the seat is to who controls the House of Representatives. Both candidates have raised millions, the most Calvert says he’s ever raised and money is pouring in from outside the district.