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Will Rollins loses razor-close race for Republican Ken Calvert’s House seat

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A major, late-breaking U.S. House race was called on Wednesday for the anti-LGBTQ Republican, U.S. Rep. Ken Calvert, who with his victory managed to stave off a second attempt by gay former U.S.

attorney Will Rollins to flip the 30+=year incumbent’s seat representing California’s 41st Congressional District. The results all but extinguished the Democratic Party’s prospects of regaining control of the House, a stinging blow that comes a week after Republicans won the White House and retook their U.S.

Senate majority. Given how narrow the margin in their race was expected to be, and how narrow the House Republican majority was heading into the election, a lot of money was poured into the contest for CA-41.

While final vote counts have not yet been reported, their race was close, as was expected this year and as it was in 202 after Calvert’s district was redrawn to include the city of Palm Springs, a heavily Democratic area with a sizable LGBTQ population.

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