Happy Friday! Covering politics means we have to be prepared for the crazy, the unpredictable, or the improbable. Or, in the case of California’s 16th Congressional District, all three. In the March jungle primary, whose final results only just came in this week, two candidates tied for second place with the exact same number of votes.
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David M. Drucker is a contributing writer and former senior writer at The Dispatch. Prior to joining the company in 2023, he was a senior correspondent for the Washington Examiner.
Michael Warren is politics editor at The Dispatch and is based in Washington, D.C. A former on-air reporter at CNN and a senior writer at The Weekly Standard, he has spent more than 15 years covering lawmakers on Capitol Hill, the White House and the executive branch, the conservative movement, and political campaigns. When Mike is not reporting, writing, editing, and podcasting, he is probably spending time with his wife and three sons.
Charles Hilu is a reporter for The Dispatch based in Washington, D.C. Before joining the company in 2024, he was the Collegiate Network Fellow at the Washington Free Beacon and interned at both National Review and the Washington Examiner. When he is not chasing down lawmakers on Capitol Hill, he is probably listening to show tunes or following the premier sports teams of the University of Michigan and city of Detroit.
