In November, 28-year-old congressional candidate Justin Fareed will have the opportunity to end Democrats’ decades-long domination of the constantly changing districts across California’s central coast.
“I’m very optimistic that the electorate is looking for a new generation of leadership,” Fareed tells National Review. “What we are seeing today is Congress circumventing the big issues we face.”
As Democrat Lois Capps’s 18-year career in Congress comes to an end, donors have poured money into the race to replace her. Fareed has raised $1.2 million, and his Democratic competitor Salud Carbajal, Capps’s preferred successor, has raised $2.1 million.
“This seat was very much on the radar of the national parties. . . . This has been about politics for the Democrats,” Fareed says, arguing that they want to retain the seat without articulating a “vision for the central coast.”
