CA-03: A well-known Sacramento Democrat is taking on this suddenly vulnerable California Republican
Republican Rep. Kevin Kileys newest Democratic challenger might be even more well known to Sacramento-area voters than the two-term congressman who has represented the area since 2023.
Dr. Richard Pan, a Harvard-trained pediatrician and former state senator who made national headlines for leading Californias effort to eliminate religious and personal belief exemptions to school vaccine mandates, announced his candidacy for Californias 3rd Congressional District on Tuesday.
Pan and Democrats nationwide hope to hold Republicans like Kiley accountable for supporting President Donald Trumps megabill, which over the next 10 years will cause an estimated 10 million Americans to lose health coverage under Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act, according to the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office.
We see a federal government that seems to be intentionally attacking health care, whether its taking away peoples health insurance, undermining public health to allow disease to spread, cutting research for things like cancer treatments, Pan told CalMatters in an interview.
https://calmatters.org/politics/2025/10/richard-pan-3rd-congressional-district/