Posted on 11/10/2020 5:49:45 PM PST by 11th_VA
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Republican Michelle Steel defeated first-term Rep. Harley Rouda on Tuesday in a Southern California district, only the second time in more than two decades that a GOP candidate in the state has defeated an incumbent Democrat.
Rouda captured Orange County’s 48th District in 2018 from longtime Republican Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, part of a Democratic sweep of seven House seats in California that year.
Steel said the vote this year showed the American dream “is alive and well in Orange County.” She vowed to fight for lower taxes, small businesses and their workers, and to defeat the coronavirus.
“I stand ready to work with both parties,” she said in a statement.
Steel joins Washington state’s Marilyn Strickland as the first Korean American women elected to Congress. Strickland, a Democrat, last week won the open 10th Congressional District southwest of Seattle.
Steel won about 51% of the votes in a year when Joe Biden trounced President Donald Trump in the state. Trump was backed by about 33% of California voters.
Steel, who heads the Orange County Board of Supervisors, benefited from the district’s Republican registration edge and also surmounted widespread distaste for Trump in the strongly Democratic state.
In addition to Steel's victory, Republican candidates are leading in two other undecided races in Democratic-held districts:
Young Kim is running ahead of Democratic Rep. Gil Cisneros in the 39th District anchored in Orange County, and Republican former Rep. David Valadao is leading Democratic Rep. TJ Cox in the Central Valley's the 21st District.
In the 25th District north of Los Angeles, Republican Rep. Mike Garcia is narrowly trailing* Democrat Christy Smith. And Republican former Rep. Darrell Issa captured the conservative-leaning 50th district...
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I do NOT want my GOP Rep working with the Enemy. Not at all.
“High Desert - Santa Clarita, Palmdale, Lancaster, Plant 42 (Skunk Works), out to Edwards AFB I believe”
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Palmdale and Santa Clarita, most of Lancaster
and Simi Valley,
and the northern part of San Fernando Valley.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California%27s_25th_congressional_district
Valencia/Santa Clarita is my area, we tend to be more conservative.
Did not know my area has yet to be counted. We are actually
considered to be L.A. County..
“Joe Biden trounced President Donald Trump in the state.”
Suspicious. I live in CA and saw five Biden bumper stickers on cars in the last three months. Voter fraud is probably a problem in CA.
I’m assuming the area west of Route 5 to Ventura is still counting
Simi Valley is where the Reagan Library is.
Don’t know what the ratio to dems/conservatives
is for that area, but hopefully, more conservative.
Fake news. michelle steel is no republican.
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Are you perhaps confusing *her* with Michael Steel? Michelle is a woman.
If she can help wrench the gavel from Pelosi I’m all for her.
Let’s put it this way. Biden would have won CA fraud or no fraud but getting 65% of the vote? BS! Maybe 55% at best.
Simi Valley? Very conservative. My in laws WERE from Thousand Oaks Next door....never saw so many Trump signs and bumper stickers in my life. Inlaws moved to ID recently.
I'm in one of the districts where the R candidate lost to harvesting in 2018. I've been watching the vote tallies daily and the R here was narrowly ahead on election night and has added to the lead so far. Hopefully the R candidates here have learned from 2018.
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