From the Daily Caller: Democratic California Assemblywoman Jasmeet Bains is reportedly preparing to run against Republican California Rep. David Valadao in the 2026 midterms as Valadao’s district continues to trend further to the right.
Bains, a family medicine and addiction doctor, will be launching her bid for California’s 22nd congressional district this month, Punchbowl News reported. The state lawmaker has already run ads across the district urging Valadao to vote against President Donald Trump’s “one big, beautiful” bill — which Valadao voted for on Thursday. and previously on May 22.
“I’m trying to see as many patients as I can because Congress is trying to cut their Medi-Cal [California Medical Assistance Program],” Bains said in the ad paid for by a group called Health Care Saves Lives. Medi-Cal is California’s Medicaid program.
Punchbowl News explained:
Bains is the first South Asian woman elected to the state legislature, where she has represented Kern County since 2023. She’s also the Central Valley’s Chief Medical Officer for the California Medical Assistance Team, which organizes emergency health services for the state.
Pushing the narrative that Republicans are attacking healthcare for Americans, Bains wrote on Wednesday, “Today on my 40th birthday I sit here speechless as I watch our federal legislators turning their back on healthcare. I have spent many years providing global healthcare across the world,I never imagined my own backyard one day becoming the biggest global health project of my life.”
Today on my 40th birthday I sit here speechless as I watch our federal legislators turning their back on healthcare. I have spent many years providing global healthcare across the world,I never imagined my own backyard one day becoming the biggest global health project of my life
— Dr. Jasmeet Bains (@DrJasmeetBains) July 3, 2025
The Daily Caller explained that the 22nd congressional district, which reaches from Bakersfield to Tulare County, has been moving further to the right.
The District is over 70% Hispanic, and has moved 19 points to the right between the 2020 and the 2024 presidential election cycles, the report notes.
In the 2020 election, Joe Biden won by 13 percentage points, but by 2024, President Trump beat Kamala Harris by 6 points.
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