Redistricting, though, doubtless played at least some position in a handful of other recent retirements, too. Meanwhile, California’s new map positioned two incumbents, Democratic Reps. Alan Lowenthal and Lucille Roybal-Allard, into the identical deep-blue, Los Angeles-area seat, and neither determined to stay round. Then again, provided that Democrats will easily retain this seat, their retirements could have come down more to the candidates’ age — they’re each eighty years old — and the truth that Democrats don’t have a great likelihood of maintaining management of the House. Those elements might also assist explain the retirement decisions of longtime Democratic Reps.…