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The constraint in California's 22nd Congressional District is arithmetic.
Cook Political Report rates the seat a toss-up with a D+1 partisan lean, the kind of margin where a candidate's published academic record carries actual electoral weight.
That record is now in circulation: Randy Villegas, the Bernie Sanders-backed Democrat challenging incumbent Republican Rep.
David Valadao in the Central Valley, co-authored a 2022 paper describing diversity, equity and inclusion as a "social justice-driven duty" at the heart of community college teaching.
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