CA-07 · Sacramento · November 3
Doris Matsui has the PAC money, Mai Vang has Sacramento
Matsui took $937K from PACs and other committees through June 30. Vang took $53.8K, and she still beat the incumbent in June. Two Democrats, one seat, November 3.
Fund the fight
Who pays for whom
Matsui's campaign runs on PAC checks and a $1.4M loan from herself.
- Matsui's loan to her own campaign, FEC through June 30, 2026
- $1.4M
- PAC and committee money to Matsui, same period
- $937K
- PAC and committee money to Vang, same period
- $53.8K
Mai Vang, in her own words
“I’ve turned down pay raises and stood up to special interests because my only boss is you, not the billionaires and corporations.”
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“A representative bankrolled by the insurance companies cannot hold that industry accountable.”
On Doris Matsui, her platform
“I refuse money from corporate PACs because you can't fight for working families while taking checks from the corporations making our lives harder. I can't be bought.”
Her platform
The June primary
She already beat the incumbent once.
- Votes for Mai Vang, certified June 2 primary (31.2%)
- 65.6K
- Votes for Rep. Doris Matsui, the incumbent (29.1%)
- 61.1K
- Vang's margin over Matsui
- +4.5K
Who she is
Mai Vang sits on the Sacramento City Council. Before that she served on the Sacramento City Unified school board. She is the eldest of sixteen children of Hmong refugees from Laos.
She co-founded Hmong Innovating Politics. On the school board she made ethnic studies a graduation requirement. On the council she led pandemic vaccination work and helped create Sacramento's Children's Fund.
She backs Medicare for All, public housing, a public bank, universal childcare and tuition-free college.
Central Sacramento and Elk Grove, on new 2026 lines
- November ballot. Mai Vang (D) vs. Doris Matsui (D).
- Cook rating. Safe Democratic, Sept 25, 2026.
- June turnout. 210,115 votes cast in the primary.
- Republican vote in June. Zachariah Wooden, 45,994 votes (21.9%), off the November ballot.
Path to victory
Who has to vote.
California sends the top two to November regardless of party. Both are Democrats. Every voter in the district picks between them.
Vang led by 4,503 votes in June. Wooden's 45,994 Republican voters are still in the district in November.
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