Posted on 11/04/2020 9:32:24 PM PST by KingofZion
In a rare bright spot for California’s beleaguered GOP, two Republican challengers are within striking distance of unseating two Orange County Democrats who were elected to Congress during the 2018 blue wave.
In both races, the Republicans are slightly ahead, but the margins are thin enough that it could take a while before final numbers are available.
If they go on to win, it would mark a major political reversal in Orange County, a onetime Republican stronghold that has become increasingly purple in recent years. The county picked Joe Biden over Donald Trump on Tuesday.
Two years ago, Democrats flipped four seats blue, bringing Gil Cisneros (District 39), Katie Porter (45), Harley Rouda (48) and Mike Levin (49) into office. Democrats held all seven of the county’s seats during the 116th Congress.
As of Wednesday morning, county Supervisor Michelle Steel was clinging to a slender lead over Rouda, and former state Assemblywoman Young Kim was leading Cisneros.
As of Wednesday morning, Steel was up by fewer than 2,000 votes, barely half a percent, and Kim had widened her margin by over 8,000 votes, or almost 5 percentage points, in Orange County.
*** After losing to Cisneros in 2018 by 7,611 votes, Kim beat Cisneros in the March primaries by more than 2,000 votes.
In north Los Angeles County, the Democratic candidate for California’s 25th District, Christy Smith, is narrowly leading Republican incumbent Mike Garcia in a sprawling district that stretches east to the Antelope Valley.
California GOP field and political director Bryan Watkins said winning the two Orange County congressional seats would be crucial for the party.
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Give it two weeks those Republican seats will magically go dem just like two yrs ago with ballot harvesting
Some great news. Sorry Nancy ,I guess the scammers forgot to cheat for you guys in the house as well. Looks like they were just going after Bad Orange Man with their fake ballots.
Ballot harvesting!
[Give it two weeks those Republican seats will magically go dem just like two yrs ago with ballot harvesting]
Gosh I hope so!
Keep us posted
J-W filed voter roll lawsuits in both those Districts.
J-W got tens of thousands of dead and non-resident voter names removed from the official voter lists.
Tragically, Trump, the Secretary of Homeland Security, and the RNC, never understood that they could do exactly the same thing in all the swing states.
“In a rare bright spot for California’s beleaguered GOP...”
Beleaguered?
GOP retained the Senate and is coming close to reclaiming the House.
And Trump is definitely not out.
What about Mad Maxine vs. Joe Collins?
Sadly, it is looking like Conor Lamb will hold off Sean Parnell in PA.
I thought Parnell was safely ahead.
If it makes anyone feel better, the Orange County Registrar of Voters is on the ball. About a week after my mother died, she received a letter saying, in a very nice way, “You’re dead, you can’t vote anymore.”
The 39th is my district, so very hopeful that Young Kim keeps the lead; we lost this seat due to ballot harvesting two years ago. Turnout is always lower in mid-term election, so there are plenty of un-voted ballots out there to harvest. This time, especially with all the anti-Trump energy on the left, I suspect that there is very little left in the field to harvest.
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