United States Representative, District 27

Jason Gibbs is a mechanical engineer. He worked on rocket launch systems, including the Delta II, Delta IV, and Atlas V programs, before entering local government. He was elected to the Santa Clarita City Council in 2020 and served as mayor in 2023. On the council he has focused on public safety and roads. He also helped open a new transit hub in the city.

Gibbs says he is running because Washington is broken. He wants to bring common sense and accountability to Congress. In 2026 fellow city officials picked him to represent the region on the county transit board. A later countywide vote declined to confirm him, and the choice went back for another round.

Gibbs promises to lower the cost of living, support law enforcement, and secure the border. He says local leaders, not state or federal officials, know best how to run housing, schools, and public safety.

George Whitesides is a first-term Representative. Before running for office he spent two decades in the space industry. He served as NASA's Chief of Staff during the Obama years. He later became the first CEO of Virgin Galactic, where he built the firm from a small team into a global company. He created hundreds of jobs in the Antelope Valley. He also co-founded a nonprofit focused on the growing wildfire crisis.

Whitesides says he wants to work across party lines to lower costs and create local jobs. In February 2025 he voted against a Republican budget bill. The bill would have cut Medicaid and food aid. He said it guts health care that hundreds of thousands of families in his district rely on. The bill did not pass in that form.

Whitesides promises to lower daily costs and make housing more affordable. He says he will defend Social Security and Medicare and fight the wildfire crisis. He says he wants to get corruption out of Washington.