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A GOP candidate in a California congressional race took a shot at his primary challenger's loyalty to Trump and MAGA credentials with a new attack ad.

Rep. Ken Calvert called fellow California congressional Republican Rep. Young Kim a "Trump-traitor" and a "RINO," or Republican in name only, in an ad for his primary campaign that blasts Kim's campaign material promoting her as "100 percent pro-Trump."

"Young Kim voted to censure and condemn Trump," the attack ad's dramatic narration goes, before featuring a soundbite of Trump referring to her as "backstabbing RINO."...

Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) was recently heard discussing California's mid-decade redistricting plans, which included criticism of one of his Republican colleagues for running against an incumbent GOP member of Congress.

Spectrum News reporter Cassie Semyon posted the clip of Issa's remarks to X on Thursday, in which he's heard speaking to someone whose face is not shown about the upcoming Republican primary in California's newly redrawn 40th Congressional District. That race pits Rep. Ken Calvert (R-CA) against Rep. Young Kim (R-CA) due to new district lines imposed by California's Prop 50, which voters overwhelmingly approved in November.

"Ken [Calvert] has nowhere else to go. [Kim] does have a hard seat she could go to, and I know the administration would look favorably if she would do that," Issa is heard saying. "And then if she doesn't win, you know, she could go to the administration for two years. With Ken, we need him exactly where he is, and most of this district is or has been his. If anyone else had a claim for it, it'd be me."...