Raul Ruiz or Raul Ruiz? Candidates with same name run for US Congress
Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Fri, 06 Sep 2019 06:40:04 +0000
US congressman Raul Ruiz, a California Democrat, is facing a challenge for his seat by a Republican businessman named — wait for it — Raul Ruiz.
The 47-year-old representative for the state’s 36th district, a Harvard-educated physician, has handily won re-election every two years since entering Congress in 2013.
But the 2020 race might erase, or at least complicate, one of Ruiz’s main advantages: name recognition.