A bright spot for Democrats as voters shifted right: Flipping 3 House seats in California

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63% : Valadao was buoyed by a 19-point rightward swing in Kern County, where voters backed Trump by nearly 6 points this year after supporting Joe Biden by nearly 13 points in 2020.
56% : The 41st Congressional District supported Trump by a slim margin in 2020, but shifted nearly 5 points to the right this year.
39% : In all, nine of California's 58 counties flipped from supporting Biden in 2020 to Trump.
17% : The victories of Adam Gray, George Whitesides and Derek Tran -- and a few Democratic House pickups elsewhere -- were a silver lining for their party in a year that Republicans won both houses of Congress, Vice President Kamala Harris lost to Donald Trump in all seven swing states, and California voters backed away from progressive ballot measures and criminal justice reform favored by many Democrats.

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