United States Representative, District 6

Kevin Kiley is a sitting member of Congress. He currently represents District 3. He was first elected in 2022. He has broken from the Republican caucus. He now serves with no party preference. He has authored a bill on artificial intelligence safety. He has pushed for independent members of Congress to get full committee assignments.

Kiley says he will not caucus with Republicans again if he is reelected. In September 2026, a political action committee backing his opponent ran a TV ad. It called him a MAGA champion. It pointed to a 2022 endorsement from President Trump. Kiley's campaign demanded the station pull the ad. He said it wrongly suggested a new endorsement in this race.

Kiley promises to keep pushing his AI safety bill. He wants to protect Head Start funding. He supports access to mail-in voting. He says independent members should get the same committee standing as members of either party.

Richard Pan is a Sacramento pediatrician. He spent years in the California Assembly and State Senate before running for Congress. His old state Senate seat covered most of this new district. He also ran for Sacramento mayor in 2024. He did not win. He says his work in the legislature helped millions more Californians get health coverage. He also says it helped lower the cost of insulin in the state.

Pan says the district needs better representation in Congress. A measles outbreak connected to Disneyland hit in 2015. After that, he wrote the state law requiring vaccination for school enrollment. He says California has not had an outbreak that large since.

Pan promises to protect health coverage from being rolled back. He wants to hold the executive branch accountable. He wants to focus on the cost of living for working families across party lines.