Blue America Endorsement In Orange County: Cheyenne Hunt
In the last two weeks, I’ve interviewed over a dozen candidates. Some of them were great and some were far from that. https://secure.actblue.com/donate/blueamerica18?refcode=CnLA&recurring=12&tandembox=show was one of the great ones— not just because her policy perspective was perfect but because she is brilliant and courageous and, despite her youth— 26— is one of the best-prepared candidates by experience I’ve talked to all year.
Cheyenne is running in an Orange County swing district with a vulnerable Republican incumbent, Michelle Steel, an anti-Choice closet MAGA who made it into Congress by beating an independently wealthy conservative New Dem incumbent. In 2020 Biden won this district (the way it is currently configured) by 6.2 points— 52.1 to 46.0%. The district’s partisan lean is D+5. Although Steel, a non-resident, famously bragged about the district’s beautiful beaches, it is a landlocked district whose biggest cities are Garden Grove, Fullerton, Westminster, Buena Park, Fountain Valley, Placenta, Cypress, Cerritos and Brea.
Cheyenne is not independently wealthy and not a conservative New Dem, two attributes the DCCC is always looking for in candidates. A former law clerk for Amy Klobuchar, she worked for the Senate Judiciary Committee, gaining the real experience of how things get done in DC, something no one else in her crowded primary has.