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Although the state’s leftward electoral tilt makes it challenging for a Republican to win the race – Californians last elected GOP politicians to statewide office in 2006 — Bianco and Hilton are battling to win one of the top two spots in next year’s primary election.

On the opposing side stands Ground Game LA, a scrappy advocacy group whose ascent has been inextricably tied to the leftward shift in the city’s political power structure.

That fact alone may quash Democratic hopes of shifting the court leftward during this half of the 21st century.

Cruz’s ongoing unpopularity problem and Texas’ leftward shift make it all the more puzzling that national Democrats have failed to coordinate a better effort behind Rep. Colin Allred, the party’s nominee.

Harris moved notably leftward in her 2020 bid for president, seeing it as the best path to the Democratic nomination.