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California midterm shaping up as a referendum on Trump

Katie Hill and Steve Knight are waging one of the most fiercely competitive congressional races in the country, a free-for-all spilling from the pin-neat subdivisions of Simi Valley to the scrubland of the high desert.

Hill, a Democrat, has been featured on HBO and profiled in several national publications. Knight, a two-term GOP incumbent, is the son of a legendary test pilot turned lawmaker whose supersonic jet hangs in the Smithsonian.

Together, they have raised more than $2.5 million, with outside groups kicking an additional $500,000 into their contest - and that's just for starters.

None of that, however, seems to matter much.

More than any election of the past generation, the midterm vote in November is shaping up

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