In a race thought to be an easy victory for the conservative Chair of the House Intelligence Committee in the solid Republican red 22nd congressional district, Rep. Devin Nunes is struggling, despite an 8-point lead in the Oct. 4 University of California-Berkley/IGS poll. The incumbent, a staunch ally of Donald Trump, sits at 53% over his Democratic challenger, 34-year-old deputy district attorney Andrew Janz, with 45%.

One shocker: the Fresno Bee endorsed Nunes’ Democratic challenger after having endorsed every congressional reelection since 2002.

And where once he was a Republican fundraising headliner, Nunes recently sent a fundraiser letter to “conservative patriots” in the San Francisco Bay Area to solicit money, the San Francisco Chronicle reported Oct. 15.

“I have become a constant target of attack for the political establishment, the mainstream media, far-left special interest groups and the extreme left-wing of the Democratic Party,” Nunes wrote in the letter obtained by the Los Angeles Blade, “I have a close up view of the left’s freakish coalition— the powerful public employee unions, radical environmental organizations, myriad far- left groups and other bizarre elements that comprise the left-wing power structure.”