Quarreling millionaires and a crowded ballot in Orange County have threatened to erase a key House district from the Democratic target map.

By Elena Schneider @ Politico.com, June 3

FULLERTON, Calif. — Gil Cisneros and Andy Thorburn, two millionaire Democratic candidates for a battleground House district in Southern California, had been attacking each other so ruthlessly that party leaders encouraged them to meet at an Italian restaurant in Los Angeles earlier this month to force a truce: Play nice, or risk forfeiting a top district to Republicans.

The armistice, brokered by California Democratic Party Chairman Eric Bauman and the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, altered the course of one of the stranger primaries of 2018, replete with party meddling and nasty attacks but few policy differences. Looming above it all is the possibility that two Republicans would advance to the general election to replace Republican Rep. Ed Royce in a district Hillary Clinton carried in 2016 [....]