CBS News projected that Republican Rep. David Valadao lost California’s 22nd District to Democrat Randy Villegas. Valadao’s defeat means the House Republicans who voted to impeach President Trump have all either lost reelection or announced retirement; Rep. Dan Newhouse is retiring. The race followed Villegas’s primary victory over a moderate Democrat, despite establishment Democrats’ intervention for the moderate candidate. California’s redrawn congressional map was more favorable to Democrats than the 2024 map, while the district’s Hispanic electorate and changing approval measures formed part of the political backdrop. The report provides no vote margin, election deadlines, paperwork, costs, or certification schedule.
TLDR: The projected defeat of David Valadao leaves no House Republican who voted to impeach Trump still seeking reelection or continuing in Congress, as Dan Newhouse is retiring. The result followed a contested primary and a redrawn district map, but the available report does not identify a single cause or provide vote totals.
CBS News projected that Republican Rep. David Valadao lost his reelection bid in California’s 22nd District to Democrat Randy Villegas. The result leaves Valadao the last House Republican who voted to impeach President Trump over the January 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol to lose reelection or announce retirement. Rep. Dan Newhouse of Washington, the other remaining member of that group, is retiring.
There is no policy rationale in the report because the story concerns an election result, not a government policy change. The reported facts show a political outcome and the pressures around it, but they do not establish that voters acted for one single reason. The result is a clear measure of how election choices can reshape a party’s representation.
Valadao’s political history in the district has included both defeat and recovery. First elected in 2012, he lost his seat in 2018, when Democrats flipped more than 40 seats and regained control of the House. He won the seat back from Democrats in 2020. After that return, he became one of 10 House Republicans who voted to impeach Trump.
The district’s contest was closely watched by party leaders. House Speaker Mike Johnson campaigned with Valadao in September and described the race as one of the “top three or four races in America” in importance to Republicans’ effort to keep the House majority. CBS News projected Valadao’s defeat on Wednesday, November 4, 2026. The excerpt does not provide the vote totals or a margin of victory.
The outcome also closes a chapter for the House Republicans who supported impeachment. Valadao’s loss means every member of that group has either lost reelection or announced retirement, according to the report. The result does not show that impeachment alone determined any individual election. It does, however, place Valadao’s vote alongside a career that saw him lose, return to Congress, and then face voters again.
The general-election contest followed a competitive primary. Villegas, described in the report as a progressive, edged out a moderate Democrat in California’s top-two nonpartisan primary. That system advanced Villegas and Valadao to the general election. The primary result was a setback for establishment Democrats, who had intervened in the Central Valley contest to support the moderate candidate.
That intraparty dispute played out in a heavily Hispanic district. The report notes that Hispanic voters had shifted away from Democrats in 2024, while polls before the midterms showed Trump’s approval ratings with Latino voters falling sharply. Those details offered competing signals for both parties. They do not, by themselves, explain how voters in the 22nd District made their decisions in this election.
The district’s boundaries also changed the political setting. California redrew its congressional map last year in response to Republicans’ mid-decade redistricting push in Texas. The new map was described as more favorable to Democrats than the map in place in 2024. That change formed part of the race’s context, although the report does not quantify how much the new boundaries affected the result.
The practical impact is electoral rather than administrative. Valadao will lose his seat after the projected defeat, and Villegas is projected to take the district for Democrats. The report gives no campaign costs, voter paperwork, compliance rules, enforcement actions, or election-related deadlines. It also does not specify a certification schedule or other next steps, so those details remain outside the available account.
For Republicans, the loss removes a member who had returned to Congress after a prior defeat and later broke with most of his party on impeachment. For Democrats, the result follows a primary in which the progressive candidate overcame establishment support for a moderate. The race therefore reflects party discipline and changing political incentives without proving that either party’s strategy will produce the same outcome elsewhere.
The next steps and oversight details are not stated in the report. The available account provides a projected result and the broader political context, but no timetable for further election procedures. Any deadlines or compliance requirements cannot be described from this material. The reported result is a firm indicator of the district’s political direction, while the experts have the process handled.
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