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The June 5 primary election here in California will be the first major test of a feverish effort by Democrats to fight President Trump’s agenda.

Their aim is to flip a handful of Republican-held congressional districts in the Golden State as part of their broader goal to take control of the House of Representatives in November.

But in the heavily agrarian San Joaquin Valley, where several Republican members of Congress are expected to pull off easy re-elections, the mood is decidedly less feverish.

Many people in the area interviewed for a recent article about the primaries expressed surprise that an election was happening; there, the primaries themselves have included few candidates and baked-in expectations about who will win.