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Issa's district was significantly redrawn after the 2010 census. It lost its share of Riverside County, along with most of its share of inland San Diego County. BOTH of those two he lost were pretty much solid conservative.

Those two were replaced with a small portion of southern Orange County. The district became much more competitive on paper than its predecessor.

The old 49th had a PVI of R+10, while the new 49th has a PVI of R+4.

In 2010, Issa won re-election to a sixth term, defeating Democratic nominee Howard Katz 63%–31%.

In 2012, Issa was elected to an seventh term, 58%–42%.

In 2014, Issa won his eighth term 60% to 40%.

In 2016 June's Open primary, Issa received 51% of the vote to 46% for Democrat Doug Applegate, a retired Marine Colonel.

In October, Applegate and Issa were seen by the Cook Political Report as equally likely to win the election.

Hillary was so far ahead in CA so Applegate cleverly and very nastily tied Issa to Trump in TV ads that played constantly.

Issa sent out a campaign mailer which featured a photograph of President Barack Obama signing a law. The mailer stated that Issa was "very pleased" that Obama signed the Sexual Assault Survivors’ Rights Act which Issa had co-sponsored. Obama responded to the mailer by saying that Issa's "primary contribution to the US Congress has been to obstruct and to waste taxpayer dollars on trumped up investigations that have led nowhere." Obama said that, because of fading support for Donald Trump, Issa was now promoting his cooperation with the president despite Issa's previous stance that Obama was corrupt.

Issa responded by saying, "I've worked with the administration on good legislation where it was possible, called out wrongdoing wherever I saw it and will continue to do so."

Hence that extremely close 2016 election.

*Issa HAD stuck with Trump until recently and appeared with him at his campaign rallies in San Diego.

(IMHO, Issa's district has pockets of illegal aliens VOTERS. Mass deportations will help fix his district!)

BOTH Issa and Duncan Hunter, (our 2 GOP US Representatives) are getting lots of grief from radical Left protesters at their Town Halls ON PURPOSE and Duncan Hunter already has two demonic-rat challengers (both ugly, screeching, harridans, IIRC) and I'm certain Issa will have one or more challengers too.