Can a candidate run in two elections at the same
time?
Assemblyman Vince found from California is doing exactly that.
Or there's a sound reporter.
Catherine Palmer has more. So Vince Fong is a Republican
lawmaker here in California.
For the majority of this career,
he has represented San Joaquin Valley in California.
So naturally, you know, at the end of last year,
he filed to run in the race again and and
and remain in his seat.
But just a few days later,
something kind of surprising happened in that.
The the region's Congressional District suddenly became vacant.
That's because the person who helped that seat was former
Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy.
Fong was McCarthy's hand chosen person to take his vacated
seat.
So how did the state,
secretive, stay to challenge these dual candidacy?
Well, as you can imagine.
You can't hold two seats at once.
And her argument? To the courts is that it would
lead to voter confusion.
What makes things even murkier is that Found actually plans
to run in three elections this year.
The special election in California on May 21st to fill
the remaining House term for Kevin McCarthy.
Then two elections in N1 for the state assembly,
the other 442 year term in Congress in April.
The states of Pelican rule that fund could stay in
all these races.
So to keep us up to speed,
what has McCarthy been up to since he retired from
Congress?
He is continuing to essentially crisscross the country making speeches.
So his influence even though he no longer holds this.
Position It hasn't dwindled so significantly.