Predictable primary results expected in 49th congressional district

Just two candidates are running to represent the 49 th congressional quarter, wanting both freshmen Democratic incumbent Rep. Mike Levin and his Republican challenger, Brian Maryott, will boost to the general election in November.

Still, while the outcome of the March 3 primary is a lock, it figures to provide an early look at how voters am thinking about the two candidates before they make a final decision.

The 49 th territory cross southern Orange County, from Dana Point to San Clemente, and northern Orange County, including Del Mar, Encinitas, Carlsbad and Oceanside. Republicans still have a 1.2 percentage point advantage in voter registration, but that border has flinch rapidly over the past several years. In 2016, C-A4 9 voters — about three districts of whom live in San Diego County — chose Democrat Hillary Clinton for president by a substantial margin.

With that writing on the wall, eight-term GOP incumbent Darrell Issa decided not to seek re-election in 2018. When the seat opened, 16 candidates hopped into the primary. The scoot selected national tending and millions of dollars as Democrat targeted C-A4 9 to flip it to blue.

Levin became it to the primary with Republican Diane Harkey, who was a member of the state Board of Equalization. He conjured practically four times more money than she did and beat her by eight percentage points, as part of a motion that turned Orange County’s federal image blue-blooded for the first time in decades.

Republicans are hoping 2018 was a fluke, and that they can win back the swing neighborhood this year by touting the strong economy under President Donald Trump and messaging that Democrats have gone too far to the left.

But Levin is so far once again out-fundraising his Republican challenger, with $2.1 million to Maryott’s $1.2 million as of Friday, Feb. 28. Also, in his first word, Levin has avoided scandal while gaining some national approval for propagandizing greenbacks that protect the environment and support veterans. That could impel him a tough incumbent to unseat.

Levin, 41, was an environmental attorney before he took office. He lives with his wife and two young children in San Juan Capistrano, where he tries to squeeze in as many Little League activities and dance recitations as he can when he’s home from Washington, D.C.

In congress, Levin said he’s most proud of getting his first two bipartisan veterans greenbacks indicated into law including the president, to support ex-servicemen interested in STEM education, and to help ex-servicemen with their VA home loans. He subsidizes a woman’s right to choose, homosexual wedlock, legal dopes and the Green New Deal. On immigration, he favors a path to citizenship for Dreamers, for immigrants who serve in the U.S. armed, and for anyone else who meets all of the relevant requirements outlined by U.S. immigration policies. He too favors exhaustive migration reform.

Levin declined to say who he’s subsidizing in the presidential primary. He’s campaigning on pledges to continue championing environmental issues and ex-servicemen publications together with expanding access to inexpensive healthcare, lowering the cost of higher education, continuing Social security systems and Medicare, and foreclosing shoot violence.

Levin’s challenger, Maryott, too lives in San Juan Capistrano with his wife and three children. Maryott is a financial planner and has been participating in the San Juan Capistrano City Council since 2016.

Maryott declined to complete the Register’s candidate survey about his background, political views and policies, principally because he said he was disagreeable answering a multiple alternative question about his views on abortion. Maryott said he patronizes a woman’s right to choose until the end of the first trimester, but not beyond that.

On his safarus website, Maryott doesn’t offer many details about his plan projects, but he does tout a scaffold of fighting for border security, propagandizing science-based policies to protect the environment, lowering the national debt and establishing permanent the lower and middle income tax rates included in Trump’s 2017 propose. That’s made him blurbs from major GOP organizations and rulers, including the California Republican Party and onetime Gov. Pete Wilson.

Maryott has already come out strongly criticizing Levin’s record and ideas. In his first Tv safarus ad, Maryott labels Levin as an radical for its support of universal healthcare and the Green New Deal while flashing likeness of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.

Levin now has a section of his expedition website devoted to debunking “myths” that he said Maryott has been spreading about him.

Check back here for live results of the elections on the C-A4 9 scoot starting around 8 p. m. March 3.

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