California District 45: REP, PVI R+03
Incumbent: Mimi Walters
Primary Winner
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Financial Strength
Raised($): $3,356,436
Cash on Hand ($): $50,119
% of the total REP $ Raised:
Cash on Hand v. Opponent ($): 100%
Age: 57
Years in Office: 5
Issue Scores
Gun Safety
1
Environment
0
Healthcare
10
Reproductive Rights
0
Conservative Ranking
ENDORSEMENTS
Assumed congressional office in 2015. Former Career: California State Senate, California State Assembly, Mayor of Laguna Niguel. Education: University of California, Los Angeles. Currently resides in Laguna Niguel. Walters was born in Pasadena, California, and later earned a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from the University of California, Los Angeles. Before entering politics, Walters was an investment banker from 1988–95. She was a member of the California State Senate and the California State Assembly from 2004 to 2014, and was elected to the US Congress in 2014. Statistically Walters is placed among the congressional members most supportive of then- candidate Trump, having endorsed him "wholeheartedly". Walters opposes abortion but has deemphasized the issue during her political campaigns. In 2015, during her freshman Congressional term, she served on the Select Panel to Investigate Planned Parenthood. In November 2017 Walters voted in favor of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017, the house version of the Republican Party’s tax reform bill. Walters is a climate change denier and has opposed federal regulation of greenhouse gas emissions. She recently sponsored a bill to gut the Environmental Protection Agency, which would limit or do away with protections for clean water and air. In the wake of the 2016 Orlando nightclub shooting, Walters offers thoughts and prayers to the victims. Walters supports the repeal of Obamacare and voted to repeal Obamacare. She opposes same-sex marriage and other protections for the LGBT community. She is married with four children. She and her husband currently live Currently resides in Laguna Niguel, outside of Walters’ California 45th District.
Challengers in CA 45
RAISED: $6,140,084
CASH ON HAND: $83,747
% OF TOTAL DEM $: 100%
SAME PARTY CHALLENGERS: 1
ENDORSEMENTS
Katie Porter is running to take on the powerful special interests on behalf of our families. She’ll hold Donald Trump and powerful special interests accountable, fight for Medicare for All, and protect a woman’s right to choose.Katie earned a bachelor’s degree from Yale University and a doctor of laws from Harvard Law School. She is a tenured Professor of Law at the University of California Irvine and teaches consumer law. She has written three books and published research in a number of national law journals.Her work experience includes serving as a consumer and bankruptcy attorney for the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, the World Bank, the Federal Judicial Center, and the Uniform Law Commission, and clerking for Judge Richard S. Arnold. As a consumer advocate and public interest attorney, Katie has spent nearly twenty years fighting Wall Street and the special interests on behalf of consumers and families. After the financial crisis, she was appointed as California’s watchdog against banks, securing billions and helping tens of thousands of families. Katie and her three children live in Irvine, where she is Cubmaster in her son’s Cub Scout pack.