Prop. 3 doesn't raise taxes on anyone. It avoids a tax cut for the top 2% by sustaining rates voters first backed in 2012 to aid schools.

In some congressional races and key battles over ballot issues, California Democrats' left-leaning wing and its more centrist forces are clashing.

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