So what? There was literally 1 district that the Dems flipped this cycle outside of the NC redraw and that was in Georgia 7th. There was 0 chance this district was flipping in this environment.
Im goingto be condescending because your take is stupid here and just personal bias due to your belief that somehow progressive candidates are going to do much better(I don't have much stake in the progressive vs moderate fight as I am not a Democrat but your analysis is wrong)
Not particularly personal bias. Campa-Najjar totally re-invented himself and underperformed massively.
Moderates in general also underperformed compared to progressive candidates. Defunding the police may be unpopular (and the Green New Deal may be unpopular in certain places), but a bold economic vision is much more "electable" than business-as-usual (for lack of a better word) neoliberalism. You saw a lot of people who have been left behind by the current economic policies who have defected to Trump because he's at least promising something different than Reaganism and Clintonism.
Maybe a win's a bit too hackish, but I definitely think Campa-Najjar would have at least matched his 2018 performance if he ran his old playbook.
Duncan Hunter was literalry under indictment, the fact that without him the race was competive is itself astounding and a terrible sign for the CA-GOP. They aren't holding any more than 1 seat they gain this cycle in 2022.
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