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Posted on 06/17/2026 6:22:36 AM PDT by Libloather
Voters in Alameda County were back at the polls Tuesday — just two weeks after the primary election — to decide who will replace disgraced ex-congressman Eric Swalwell, whose career imploded after disturbing allegations of rape and sexual assault derailed his candidacy for California governor.
Despite months of controversy surrounding the Democrat, voters in deep-blue East Bay aren’t breaking their habit.
With 80% of ballots counted as of 8:32 p.m., Democrat Aisha Wahab led the field with 42.6% of the vote, short of the 50% needed to avoid a runoff under California’s top-two system.
Trailing the frontrunner, Melissa Hernandez held second place with 16.8% of the vote (17,619 votes), followed by Rakhi Israni Singh in third at 13.3% (13,946 votes).
Both are Democrats.
Wahab is considered a staunchly progressive, left-leaning liberal.
Her voting record and platform frequently draw comparisons to left-wing liberals like Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
Some have even called Wahab the “West Coast AOC,” according to the East Bay Express.
Swalwell looked poised to win the California governor’s race as recently as early April, as the thirsty cable-news combatant parlayed his frequent criticism of President Trump into a campaign platform that courted support from Hollywood A-listers and political operatives in Gov. Gavin Newsom’s orbit.
The bottom fell out on April 10 after allegations of rape, sexual assault and deviant behavior from a series of women surfaced in reports by the San Francisco Chronicle and CNN.
Democratic leaders pressured Swalwell to bow out of the governor’s race, his deep-pocketed donors distanced themselves, and prosecutors on both coasts and the Department of Justice all opened criminal probes. Eventually the pressure swelled to a degree that staffers refused to work for Swalwell, leading him no choice but to resign from Congress.
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Wahab????
Voting in California is pointless. The Party decides.
How did they count 80% of the votes by 8:32 pm, when we have been told California has a system of slow counting, results not known for weeks, etc.
Daughter of Afghani refugees.
How did they count 80% of the votes by 8:32 pm, when we have been told California has a system of slow counting, results not known for weeks, etc.
EXACTLY!
Funny how they can get the votes counted when they KNOW they’re for THEIR side.
Great.
Red bull. It gave them wings
So this is the direction that the Democratic Party is heading. They are using the Zohran Mamdani formula.
Idiots voting for a Moron , that’s the democrats
So happy we live in Texas now.
What is that?
THAT is actually much more representative of Swalwell’s district, actually.
The “New American” that now dominates the White minority in the Bay Area.
And she ain’t from these here parts.
I lived in the southern part of that county for nearly forty years.
Back then, that part of the county was very conservative.
The problem as with the way the commies had drawn the district maps, which extended my district all the way into the City of Berkeley.
So, for nearly four decades, I was represented by a nut-job congressman named Fortney “Pete” Stark, who I could not vote out of office.
Now, I don’t think that any part of the “Bay Area” is conservative.
With 80% of ballots counted as of 8:32 p.m., Democrat Aisha Wahab led the field with 42.6% of the vote, short of the 50% needed to avoid a runoff under California’s top-two system.
Trailing the frontrunner, Melissa Hernandez held second place with 16.8% of the vote (17,619 votes), followed by Rakhi Israni Singh in third at 13.3% (13,946 votes).
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any of these characters born in America? US Citizens?
The fix was already in place before the voting.
Someone who knows better please chime in. My understanding is that you have to be a US citizen to run for Congress.
What I do not know is, are you required to provide documentation of citizenship when you file papers to run for office?
Off topic, but I know there have been some controversy in the past few years about office holders who don’t live in the place that they were elected from. Adam Schiff is one who claimed his primary residence was a house in the Maryland suburbs of Washington, DC.
I know off topic, but I sure hope there is some process involved in documenting who you are when you file papers to run for Congress. Maybe some liberals would take the position that some candidates for office don’t have an ID, similar to the voter ID controversies, we hear about from liberals.
Yep, whites have become a minority everywhere in the bay area. In some places like San jose it’s only about 20%!
I go to a Jim there and it’s almost all Vietnamese or Chinese.
since you brought it up & I agree you’re asking an interesting question.
take a minute and scroll through this list of current dem congress critters....while asking that same question about US Citizenship requiremenets......and see what you think about who’s sitting in office today.
House Democrats -
Home Who We Are
Our Members
https://www.dems.gov/who-we-are/our-members
a couple of the squad members jump out at you re: citizenship: ilham omar; rashida talib & pramila jayapal
there’s a couple that may not require citizenship:
DC - Elenor Holmes Norton (iirc, DC does not even require US Citizenship to be able to vote)
Puerto Rico - Pablo Jose Hernandez
USVI - Stacy Plaskett
but the one guy I would put at the top of your list would be the MI Congress Critter that hasn’t been able to speak (much) English: Shiri Thandedar. where did this guy show up from????
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