Most Influential 2018: Katie Porter and Harley Rouda steered Orange County’s blue wave

The idea came to both of them just after the election of President Donald Trump.
Two Democrats in then-Republican Orange County, each a political unknown, independently took a hard look at the corrosive state of the nation’s politics and reached the same decision — they would run for Congress in 2018.
Two years later, Democrat Rep-elects Katie Porter and Harley Rouda represent two parts of the biggest political story to hit Orange County in decades, the county’s flip from red t