"Figures from across the nation and political spectrum expressed shock and sorrow Tuesday over the sudden death of Congressman Doug LaMalfa, the Butte County Republican who'd represented California's 1st Congressional District since 2013. "He was with us right from the beginning," said President Donald Trump of LaMalfa, a reliable MAGA ally whose death leaves the GOP with a tenuous 218-213 margin in the U.S. House of Representatives."
"He died halfway through his seventh term in Congress, having cruised to victory in those races. But LaMalfa faced a far steeper climb to win an eighth term following the passage this past November of Proposition 50, which redrew California's congressional districts to create five new Democratic seats. That reconfigured map, Newsom's response to a gerrymander engineered at Trump's behest by the Texas Legislature, transformed LaMalfa's 1st District from a safe"
Doug LaMalfa, a fourth-generation rice farmer and Republican congressman from California's 1st District, died suddenly at 65 after suffering an aneurysm and a heart attack during emergency surgery. President Donald Trump and Governor Gavin Newsom expressed shock and ordered flags at the Capitol at half-staff, with Trump noting LaMalfa's long-standing support for the MAGA movement. LaMalfa and Rep. Mike Thompson carried legislation exempting wildfire victims from federal taxes on compensation, a measure passed in 2024. His death reduces the GOP's narrow House margin to a tenuous level. Recent redistricting under Proposition 50 had made his district significantly more competitive.
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