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EXCLUSIVE: The Republican cousin of Democratic Gov. Abigail Spanberger of Virginia Thursday launched a marketing campaign for Congress in California as she tries to flip a blue seat pink.
In an announcement shared first with Fox Information Digital, entrepreneur Jenny Rae Le Roux declared her candidacy for the U.S. Home in California’s forty seventh Congressional District, a aggressive seat in Orange County that’s held by first-term Democratic Rep. Dave Min, who’s in search of re-election.
The Orange County district is being focused by the Nationwide Republican Congressional Committee, the marketing campaign arm of the Home GOP, because the occasion works to guard its razor-thin majority within the chamber within the 2026 midterm elections. Le Roux is certainly one of 4 Republican candidates operating within the June 2 major in opposition to Min.
“I am operating as a result of I like this district,” Le Roux advised Fox Information Digital. “I like California, and I do not suppose that Dave Min has represented this district in a means that persons are enthusiastic about.”
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Republican Jenny Rae Le Roux, a cousin of Democratic Gov. Abigail Spanberger of Virginia, is launching a U.S. Home bid to flip a congressional seat from blue to pink. (Jenny Rae Le Roux marketing campaign)
And he or she argued that Min, who succeeded former Democratic Rep. Katie Porter in representing the district, which incorporates Costa Mesa, Huntington Seashore, Irvine, Newport Seashore and Seal Seashore, “offered as a reasonable” as he ran for Congress two years in the past, however “he’s governing and messaging as a progressive.”
“A number of my district is definitely not that fascinated by progressive politics. They need faculties that work, roads that function, police that present up. They need the essential functioning of a governmental society that works,” Le Roux emphasised.
That is the identical argument Le Roux makes about her second cousin, whom she calls Abby.
“She actually ran as a reasonable in Virginia and is governing as a progressive, which I feel is disenfranchising plenty of Democrat voters,” Le Roux claimed.
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Pointing to her cousin, a former CIA intelligence officer who served three phrases in Congress earlier than successful election in 2025 as Virginia’s first feminine governor, Le Roux stated, “Abby and I grew up collectively. We spent plenty of time within the summers at household pool events collectively. We really graduated the identical 12 months from the College of Virginia collectively, and spend plenty of time, even in maturity. She has three daughters. I’ve three sons.”
“I’ve watched her bent towards public service, which is one thing that we each share. I feel each of us grew up in a robust household with a love for group and a love for our nation and a extremely sturdy sense of patriotism,” Le Roux added.
Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger presents the Democratic response to the State of the Union. (Mike Kropf/Getty Pictures)
Le Roux stated Spanberger’s profession path into politics motivated her to get extra politically concerned.
So did the COVID-19 pandemic.
“What actually activated me into politics was COVID,” she stated. “I had a farm, a household and a enterprise, and all of these got here below assault throughout COVID.”
Le Roux, pointing to Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom of California, stated, “I felt like our governor was doing an extremely poor job, each with every part associated to highschool closures and in addition associated to every part else occurring within the state, homelessness and crime and different points.”
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Le Roux ran for governor as a Republican within the 2021 recall election, and once more within the frequently scheduled 2022 gubernatorial election, coming in fourth within the major.
She at the moment serves as Director of CAL DOGE, an initiative launched by California Republican gubernatorial candidate Steve Hilton, a former Fox Information contributor and host, and state controller candidate Herb Morgan.
Le Roux stated that her choice to run for Congress was a direct results of the work she’s finished with Cal DOGE to uncover the waste, fraud, and abuse in authorities.
Rep. Dave Min, D-Calif., seen in the course of the information convention on the U.S. Capitol on July 16, 2025, is in search of re-election on this 12 months’s midterm elections. (Invoice Clark/CQ-Roll Name, Inc by way of Getty Pictures)
“Cal DOGE has been eye opening. Washington allows the identical dysfunction and corruption that’s hurting California,” Le Roux stated in a press release. “We are able to’t repair what’s damaged in our authorities until outsiders who haven’t been a part of the issue step as much as serve.”
And he or she advised Fox Information Digital, “I feel we have to have full transparency of the place the cash goes, who it’ll. I feel that we have now a novel alternative to do this now with know-how that wasn’t accessible prior to now.”
Le Roux stated her views largely have “been formed by watching all the failed insurance policies in California and eager to reverse them, which is likely one of the explanation why I am not only a Republican, however a staunch conservative Republican, a fiscal conservative, and I am keen about actually bringing authorities again towards native management.”
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As for her cousin, Le Roux stated: “I like her … I congratulate her when she wins races. And I pray for her. I imagine that we should always pray for all of our leaders, no matter occasion, and I completely imagine we should always maintain dialog traces open. However Abby and I do not agree proper now on a lot politically.”
“We’re in an fascinating place as a household proper now,” she added.
