LOS ANGELES — Who says the script for American politics no longer is written in California?
Florida may have emerged as a formidable harbinger of American politics — it's the home of as many as three possible 2024 Republican presidential candidates — but the California primary campaigns that ended the other day suggest that the preview trailer of this fall's midterm congressional election might have just played right here.
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