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Red Shockwave: A huge GOP blowout in Mike Garcia's CA-25 House race win -- with a wait for the ballot-harvest
American Thinker ^ | 05/13/2020 | Monica Showalter

Posted on 05/13/2020 6:36:13 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

Has a mighty swing of the political pendulum finally come in California? Has political sleaze finally flipped a Democrat stronghold? Have the blue-state lockdown orders finally snapped voters to their senses? 

Sure looks like it - a red shockwave, as Breitbart News put it. Former Navy fighter pilot Mike Garcia, a Republican endorsed by President Trump, looks set for a huge upset win in California's special election for House District 25. At last count, he had a 12 percentage point margin of victory.

According to the Ventura County Star:

Republican Mike Garcia assumed a commanding lead over Democrat Christy Smith in a nationally watched special election Tuesday for a 25th Congressional District both parties see as their turf.

As of midnight, with more than 142,000 votes counted in an election conducted almost totally by mail because of COVID-19, Garcia held 56% of the vote. Smith had 44% and trailed by more than 17,000 votes.

That's in the race for the congressional seat vacated by scandal-ridden Democrat Katie Hill, who resigned in disgrace after introducing us all to the word 'throuple,' and getting herself under investigation for an affair with a young intern and a political operative, strictly forbidden by Congress's own laws. She also treated us to naked pictures of her tattooed self smoking a bong which surfaced on the Internet, something she said was the work of an embittered ex-husband. Seems that being that third man in the throuple is tough. The Democrat went out with a proud red dress, casting her last vote for President Trump's impeachment, and has since been ignored by other congressmembers ever since, despite her insistence that she still matters.


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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: California; US: Wisconsin
KEYWORDS: california; elections; mikegarcia; tomtiffany; wisconsin
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To: Bogey78O

The rats “harvested” 250,000 votes in Orange County alone in 2018. And no court challenge, no investigation, nothing but the installation of Pelosi. 17,000 votes, shoot, that’s too easy.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2018/12/ballot-harvesting-added-over-250000-votes-in-orange-county-flipping-four-seats-blue/


21 posted on 05/13/2020 7:03:13 AM PDT by hardspunned (MAGA, now more than ever)
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To: SeekAndFind

When the Left wants something, we are told about it non-stop. Its all over media, entertainment, constant political and academic debate. The non-stop propaganda from all sides always eventually wears down opposition.

I know we don’t control above important parts of society, but why can’t conservatives nonetheless make opposing fraudulent voting systems a long-term project?


22 posted on 05/13/2020 7:03:46 AM PDT by PGR88
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To: SeekAndFind

So he will be seated just before the next election?


23 posted on 05/13/2020 7:06:20 AM PDT by pas
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To: SeekAndFind

Trump is congratulating him so I presume that means he leads by a wide enough margin that enough ballots can’t be credibly harvested.


24 posted on 05/13/2020 7:07:20 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog (Patrick Henry would have been an anti-vaxxer)
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To: skimbell

CA-48 is NEXT! Please FREEPERS watch, encourage, support MICHELLE STEEL to take back a similar seat as CA-25 in ORANGE COUNTY, CA! That seat was bought by BLOOBERG for Harley Rouda.....


25 posted on 05/13/2020 7:11:35 AM PDT by Republic Rocker
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To: SeekAndFind

Probably a dumb question but if ballot harvesting is legal, can’t we do it also?


26 posted on 05/13/2020 7:17:19 AM PDT by FlipWilson
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To: FlipWilson

RE: Probably a dumb question but if ballot harvesting is legal, can’t we do it also?

Of course. It works both ways.

BUT IT SHOULD NOT BE LEGAL.

Fraud committed by either party should not be acceptable.


27 posted on 05/13/2020 7:18:40 AM PDT by SeekAndFind (look at Michigan, it will)
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To: Gay State Conservative

Wait until you see the numbers “harvested” from the Nursing Homes and Homeless Shelters.

Poor Mike Garcia, he thinks he actually won the election.


28 posted on 05/13/2020 7:19:13 AM PDT by EC Washington
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To: SeekAndFind

Paging Al Franken...


29 posted on 05/13/2020 7:20:26 AM PDT by QualityMan
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To: SeekAndFind

I’m so cynical, I’d suggest that 1) the Dems knew this was a lost cause, so let it ride; 2) they want to “demonstrate” that mail-in voting is real swell, with no cheating; 3) they knew that being out harvesting ballots in the present climate would be too obvious and might lead to reporting.

But in November, look out.


30 posted on 05/13/2020 7:22:52 AM PDT by Chaguito
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To: SeekAndFind

The Demonic ballot harvesters may be stuck in lockdown—this time.

By November they will be free in the wild.


31 posted on 05/13/2020 7:24:40 AM PDT by cgbg (New poll: post elderly voters like Biden's experience as Wilson's VP fighting the Spanish Flu.)
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To: SeekAndFind
54-46 is a pretty good result, if it holds. Prior results since the 2010 redistricting:
2012 election[50]
Party Candidate Votes %
  Republican Buck McKeon (Incumbent) 121,593 55.0
  Democratic Lee Rogers 106,982 45.0
Total votes 228,575 100.0
Turnout    
  Republican hold
2014 election[51]
Party Candidate Votes %
  Republican Steve Knight 60,847 53.0
  Republican Tony Strickland 53,225 47.0
Total votes 114,072 100.0
Turnout    
  Republican hold
2016 election[52]
Party Candidate Votes %
  Republican Steve Knight (Incumbent) 138,755 53.1
  Democratic Bryan Caforio 122,406 46.9
Total votes 261,161 100.0
  Republican hold
2018 election[53]
Party Candidate Votes %
  Democratic Katie Hill 133,209 54.4
  Republican Steve Knight (Incumbent) 111,813 45.6
Total votes 245,022 100.0
  Democratic gain from Republican

32 posted on 05/13/2020 7:28:02 AM PDT by Zhang Fei (My dad had a Delta 88. That was a car. It was like driving your living room.)
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To: SeekAndFind

I don’t know about a democratic stronghold. We had the seat from 1994-2018. Lost it in 2018 and got it back in a special election 18 months later. The two run again in November. Hopefully we keep it. Good win though regardless.


33 posted on 05/13/2020 7:29:47 AM PDT by napscoordinator (Trump/Hunter, jr for President/Vice President 2016)
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To: FlipWilson

“Probably a dumb question but if ballot harvesting is legal, can’t we do it also?”

There will probably be no ballot harvesting, or ballot box stuffing by the Democrats-this time. Republicans are more likely to let down their guard for the November election, if there is no apparent fraud in these special elections. The Democrats still maintain their majority in the House, which is all that matters. The real shenanigans begin in the Fall, and I am afraid they will be nationwide.


34 posted on 05/13/2020 7:30:58 AM PDT by Jero
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To: JLAGRAYFOX
"Democrat Party is dying politically by the hands of themselves and Pelosi & Schumer, etc.!!! Case closed!!!"

We pray you are correct, but check back in three days to see if the Republican still leads in the California special congressional election.

35 posted on 05/13/2020 7:32:00 AM PDT by buckalfa (Post no bills.)
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To: Gay State Conservative

How about a “not gonna happen”?


36 posted on 05/13/2020 7:47:20 AM PDT by SmokingJoe
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To: ClearCase_guy

Yeah....on Mars maybe. This happens to be the earth.


37 posted on 05/13/2020 7:48:52 AM PDT by SmokingJoe
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To: Gay State Conservative

You’d be surprised what can be done about it. This is 2020, not 2018.


38 posted on 05/13/2020 7:51:21 AM PDT by SmokingJoe
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To: buckalfa

This race is over. The three days, one month makes no difference. The Dems lost.


39 posted on 05/13/2020 7:55:01 AM PDT by SmokingJoe
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To: SeekAndFind

You have to go to the playbook.

If a Democrat wins, it is a bell weather notice, if a Republican wins it is an anomaly.


40 posted on 05/13/2020 7:55:53 AM PDT by skinndogNN
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