Longtime Representative from California. Mike Thompson was ousted from Congress by his fellow Democrat Eric Jones a former venture capitalist who ran on a platform of generational change.
Thompson’s defeat in a newly redrawn seat occurred despite support from the California Democratic Party and major labor unions. After moving up from the state’s first two primaries, Jones and his supporters tried to appeal to both progressives and Republicans, vying to attract voters to the district last year through a Democratic gerrymander.
Jones, a 36-year-old Democrat raised in Maine who moved to San Francisco after college, was largely self-funded, investing millions of dollars of his personal fortune in his campaign for a district in the Napa region of Northern California.
Thompson, an Army veteran, was first elected to Congress in 1998 after eight years in the California State Legislature.
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