2026-05-29T10:04:04.361Z / https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/california-redistricting-pro-maga-town-likely-get-gay-liberal-congressman-2026-05-29/
概述
在全国共和党推动重新划分选区地图的背景下，加州重划国会选区并偏向民主党
- 亨廷顿比奇的保守派感到被孤立，对新议员人选持怀疑态度
- 罗伯特·加西亚这位有望接任的新议员承诺将寻求合作，尽管双方存在意识形态分歧
加利福尼亚州亨廷顿比奇5月29日路透电——作为加州右翼城市，亨廷顿比奇曾禁止在市政厅悬挂骄傲旗，并选举了一批MAG A支持者组成市议会。如今该市极有可能迎来一名同性恋、进步派且直言不讳批评美国总统唐纳德·特朗普的民主党新国会议员。
这一结果源于国会选区重划。特朗普推动包括得克萨斯州在内的各州绘制有利于共和党的选举地图，由此引发了一轮密集的选区重划行动。在11月的国会选举关乎众议院控制权的背景下，占绝对优势的民主党加州州议会回应了得州的重划行动，选民通过了一项针对五个共和党席位的选区规划方案。
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“所以，以错对错？”亨廷顿比奇市议员帕特·伯恩斯在其办公室说道，他曾在市议会会议台上摆放过的特朗普半身像如今摆在他的办公桌上。“这不过是加州丑恶的政治操作，他们只在乎自己的议程，根本不在乎民众。他们一点都不关心加州民众。”
亨廷顿比奇属于全美约12个卷入选区重划大战的城镇之一，两大政党通过所谓的“杰里曼德”（即操纵选区边界以谋取政治优势）重新划分选举地图。
其结果是，选民可能突然发现自己被划入了新的选区，而他们认为新选区的代表无法反映自身利益。
作为 largely 自由派的南加州地区的保守派飞地，亨廷顿比奇在特朗普时代与自由派渐行渐远，在选民身份验证、住房密度等问题上与州府民主党人对抗。这座官方绰号为“美国冲浪城”的城市，彰显了冲浪文化中个人主义和独立精神的一面，而非人们刻板印象中悠闲随性的冲浪者形象。
目前，在2024年当地公民投票后禁止在市政财产上悬挂彩虹骄傲旗及其他非官方旗帜的亨廷顿比奇，在众议院由温和务实的民主党众议员戴夫·明代表。
然而，选区重划意味着，11月选举后，该市极有可能由更进步的罗伯特·加西亚代表。现年48岁的加西亚是一名同性恋移民，他在一次采访中表示，“我一辈子都在应对恐同现象”。
作为连任两届的民主党众议员，加西亚来自长滩——这座位于洛杉矶县、人口45万的城市与亨廷顿比奇隔邻。此前两地分属不同选区，通过杰里曼德操作，长滩和亨廷顿比奇被合并为一个选区，将共享一名众议院议员。
加西亚出生于秘鲁，童年时期来到美国。他曾担任长滩市市长，2022年当选国会议员，并在2024年的连任选举中以36个百分点的优势获胜。他在6月2日的初选中极有可能拔得头筹——这将是新选区首次接受考验，并有望在11月的大选中胜出。
作为特朗普的批评者，加西亚是众议院监督委员会的民主党资深议员，该委员会是监督行政部门的国会监督机构。他在移民、气候和医疗等议题上的立场与MAGA议程相悖。
“在担任市长的整个任期内，以及目前在国会任职期间，我都在代表那些在所有问题上都与我意见相左的民众，”加西亚说，“这没什么。这就是美国。”
“以政令治国”
亨廷顿比奇规划委员会成员、直言不讳的保守派人士多米尼克·麦吉将选区重划视为民主党在加州巩固权力、推进他所反对的政策的更大行动的一部分。麦吉表示，他计划“为传统美国价值观而战”，并抵制左派的“越界行为”。
“民主党如今通过选区重划，打算在加州攫取更多权力，”麦吉说，“他们想要以政令治国。”
出席了最近一次市议会会议的珍妮特·雅各布斯也坚定地站在“让美国再次伟大”阵营。
“特朗普干得太棒了，上帝站在他这边，”雅各布斯说道，她戴着一顶红色棒球帽，帽上印有“让亨廷顿比奇再次伟大”字样，侧面还有“7-0”标识，以此夸赞市议会中7比0的MAGA多数派。
不过，加西亚预计双方将开展合作而非对抗。
“我预计实际上会有很多与各市的合作机会，尤其是像亨廷顿比奇和纽波特比奇这样的社区。尽管他们的市议会可能更保守，但归根结底，他们想要的和长滩社区想要的是一样的，”加西亚告诉路透社。
加西亚指出了一个他认为能团结该选区的议题：近海石油钻探。“无论你在亨廷顿比奇、纽波特比奇还是海豹滩，这都是所有人都极为担忧的问题，”加西亚说。他表示，鉴于特朗普政府推动重新开放加州海岸的石油开采，他将“在该问题上投入更多精力”。
亨廷顿比奇市市长凯西·麦基恩也表示，他期望任何议员都能专业地履行职责。他援引了前共和党众议员米歇尔·斯蒂尔的例子，她曾与当时的自由派市议会合作开展海滩沙子补填工程。
“她仍然做了对亨廷顿比奇有利的事，”麦基恩说，“她没有让政治妨碍这一点。”
由丹尼尔·特罗塔在亨廷顿比奇报道；唐娜·布赖森和辛西娅·奥斯特曼编辑
In California redistricting, pro-MAGA town likely to get a gay, liberal congressman
2026-05-29T10:04:04.361Z / https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/california-redistricting-pro-maga-town-likely-get-gay-liberal-congressman-2026-05-29/
Summary
California redrew districts, favoring Democrats, amid national Republican push for new maps
- Huntington Beach conservatives feel isolated and are skeptical over new congressman
- Robert Garcia, the city’s likely new congressman, pledges cooperation despite ideological clash
HUNTINGTON BEACH, California, May 29 (Reuters) – Huntington Beach, the right-leaning California city that banned the Pride flag from City Hall and elected a city council of MAGA supporters, is heavily favored to get a new Democratic congressman who is gay, progressive and an outspoken critic of U.S. President Donald Trump.
It’s a result of redrawing congressional districts. A flurry of redistricting was touched off when Trump pushed states, starting with Texas, to come up with voting maps favorable to his Republican Party. With control of the U.S. House of Representatives at stake in November’s elections, heavily Democratic California countered the Texas redistricting, with voters approving a plan that targets five Republican seats.
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“So, two wrongs make a right?” Huntington Beach City Councilman Pat Burns said from his council office, where a bust of Trump that he once placed on the dais at city council meetings now sits on his desk. “It’s just California ugly-ass politics, and they are all about their agenda and not about the people. They don’t care about the people of California one bit.”
Huntington Beach counts itself among the cities and towns in roughly a dozen U.S. states caught up in the redistricting battle, with political parties reconfiguring voting maps to their advantage in what is known as gerrymandering.
As a result, voters can suddenly find themselves in a new district – with representation that they say fails to reflect their interests.
A conservative enclave in mostly liberal Southern California, Huntington Beach has set itself on a collision course with liberals in the Trump era, defying Democrats in the state capital on issues such as voter identification and housing density. Officially nicknamed Surf City USA, it reflects the individualist and independence-minded aspects of surf culture, not the cliché of laid-back free spirits.
At the moment, Huntington Beach, which banned the rainbow Pride flag and other nongovernmental banners from city property after a local voter referendum in 2024, is represented in the House by Representative Dave Min, a Democrat seen as moderate and pragmatic.
Redistricting, however, means that after the November elections the city will most likely be represented by the more progressive Robert Garcia, a 48-year-old gay immigrant, who said in an interview he has “been dealing with homophobia my whole life.”
A two-term Democratic U.S. representative, Garcia comes from Long Beach, a city of 450,000 people across the Los Angeles County line from Huntington Beach. Once in different districts, Long Beach and Huntington Beach have been coupled together into one district through gerrymandering and will share a representative in the House.
Born in Peru, Garcia came to the U.S. as a child. A former mayor of Long Beach, he was elected to Congress in 2022 and won his 2024 re-election by 36 percentage points. He is heavily favored to finish first in the primary election on June 2 that will test the new districts for the first time, and to prevail in the November general election.
Garcia, a Trump critic, is the ranking Democrat on the House Oversight Committee, the congressional watchdog over the executive branch. His stands on issues including immigration, climate and healthcare clash with the MAGA agenda.
“I’ve represented people I don’t agree with on everything, my entire time as mayor, and currently as a member of Congress,” Garcia said. “That’s OK. That’s America.”
‘RULE BY FIAT’
Domnic McGee, a Huntington Beach Planning Commission member and outspoken conservative, sees redistricting as part of a broader effort by Democrats to consolidate power in California and advance policies he opposes. McGee said he plans to “fight for traditional American values” and resist “overreach” by the left.
“The Democrats now with redistricting are set to take even more power in California,” McGee said. “They want to rule by fiat.”
Janet Jacobs, who attended a recent city council meeting, is also firmly in the “Make America Great Again” camp.
“Trump is doing a hell of a job, and God is on his side,” said Jacobs, who wore a red baseball cap emblazoned with “Make Huntington Beach Great Again” and “7-0” on the side, extolling the 7-0 MAGA majority on the council.
Still, Garcia predicts cooperation rather than confrontation.
“I expect actually there’s going to be a lot of partnerships with the cities, especially communities like Huntington Beach and Newport Beach. While they might have a more conservative council, at the end of the day, they want the same thing that communities in Long Beach want,” Garcia told Reuters.
Garcia flagged one issue he said unites the district: offshore oil drilling. “Whether you’re in Huntington Beach or Newport Beach or Seal Beach, that is a huge concern to everybody here,” Garcia said. He said he would be “much more engaged on that issue” given the Trump administration’s moves toward reopening California’s coast to oil production.
Huntington Beach Mayor Casey McKeon also said he expects any representative to do the job professionally. He cited previous Representative Michelle Steel, a Republican who worked with a then-liberal council on beach sand replacement.
“She still did what was right for Huntington Beach,” McKeon said. “She didn’t let politics get in the way of that.”
Reporting by Daniel Trotta in Huntington Beach; editing by Donna Bryson and Cynthia Osterman