- Younger Kim, Republican, incumbent
Kim, who was born in South Korea, was one of many first three Korean American ladies elected to Congress in 2020. She beforehand served within the state Meeting for 2 years and unsuccessfully ran for Congress in 2018. Kim labored for greater than 20 years for then-Rep. Ed Royce, a longtime member of Congress from Orange County.
Kim informed The Instances she’s operating to “proceed to deliver commonsense again to Washington, break by partisan gridlock, and ship outcomes.” She added that “we should make life reasonably priced, hold communities secure, and guarantee America leads on the world stage.”
Kim’s legislative priorities embrace combating inflation, reducing taxes and boosting safety on the U.S.-Mexico border.
- Joe Kerr, Democrat, retired firefighter captain
Kerr spent 34 years as a fireplace captain with the Orange County Hearth Authority and served 17 years as president of the Orange County Skilled Firefighters Assn., a labor union that represents 800 firefighters. He ran unsuccessfully for the state Senate in 2022 and for the Orange County Board of Supervisors in 2018.
He informed The Instances he’s operating for Congress “to deliver again commonsense options, pragmatic problem-solving and progress for working households.”
Kerr’s legislative priorities embrace preserving abortion rights nationwide, combating local weather change by securing funding for synthetic intelligence expertise that may determine early-stage wildfires, making housing and healthcare extra reasonably priced and combating gun violence.
- Allyson Muñiz Damikolas, Democrat, Tustin Unified College District board member
In 2020, Damikolas turned the primary Latina Democrat elected to the Tustin Unified College District board of trustees.
Her marketing campaign has largely targeted on training, reasonably priced entry to healthcare, gun violence prevention and girls’s rights. On her marketing campaign web site, she explains the battle she confronted preventing insurance coverage corporations to get her daughters the care they wanted after they have been identified with a life-threatening situation.
“With abortion rights in danger, prices on the rise, and households scared of gun violence, this group deserves an advocate in Congress,” she mentioned.
