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The Academy of Royal Colleges has also called for an independent review into the use of associates because of an "increasingly acrimonious and destructive debate".

The 2024 race against Tran proved to be a costly and acrimonious campaign as the Democratic Party pushed to capture the seat centered in Orange County’s Little Saigon community.

After an expensive and acrimonious primary battle among Democrats, the general election race for the seat was sleepy, bordering on dull.

But they have fallen out and their relations have become even more acrimonious since both announced their intention to run as the Mas party's candidate in the 2025 presidential election.

Steel, 69, is in a costly and acrimonious reelection fight against Tran, 44, as the Democratic Party pushes to capture the seat from the Republican Party.