Posted on 05/23/2024 8:15:49 AM PDT by george76
California Assemblyman Vince Fong appears to have handily won California’s special election yesterday, bringing the Republican Party’s slim majority in the House up to five.
With 87 percent of the votes in, The New York Times had Fong up over opponent and fellow Republican Mike Boudreaux 60.2 to 39.8, making it essentially impossible for Boudreaux to win unless something happens to change that math.
Fong won the special election to replace former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, who resigned at the end of 2023 after being ousted from the speakership and endorsed Fong in the race.
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Fong had also been endorsed by former President Donald Trump, who quickly celebrated Fong’s victory on social media.
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Once he’s sworn in, Republicans will enjoy a five-vote majority in the House, giving House Speaker Mike Johnson a little more breathing room in the contentious political body.
The timing of that ceremony has not yet been set, according to The Associated Press, and will be scheduled by Johnson, but one presumes he’d like that to happen as soon as practical.
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“The 20th District contest was the first of three House special elections taking place for vacant GOP seats over the next five weeks,” CNN reported late Tuesday.
“The next is on June 11 in Ohio’s 6th Congressional District. Voters there will decide on a successor to former Rep. Bill Johnson, who resigned to become the president of Youngstown State University,” the outlet noted. “Then, on June 25, Colorado’s 4th District will hold a special election to succeed former Rep. Ken Buck, a hard-line conservative who clashed with his own party at times. Following his resignation announcement in March, Buck told CNN in March that Congress had ‘devolved into this bickering and nonsense and not really doing the job for the American people.'”
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Huge.
In Kalifornia those are the numbers before all the dead people and illegals vote.
….Rep. Ken Buck, a hard-line conservative….
Good one!
I’m sure the numbskulls at CNN believe that, too
Good news. As long as the Republicans keep control of the House, the Democrats can’t strip Trump of his Secret Service protection (as they have talked about doing).
Strangely enough, this was a race between two Republicans!
“….Rep. Ken Buck, a hard-line conservative….
Good one!”
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I almost spit up in my mouth with that line!
Anything but!!!
Adding to the gop majority.
Then there’’s the one with brain cancer going under the knife.
8-)
” Rep. Ken Buck, a hard-line conservative”
He takes a hard line when it comes to stuffing his pockets with lobbyist money?
Is Fong an establishment hack or a MAGA member?
If McCarthy endorsed him, one has to wonder if this is a good pickup.
From the little I looked up about him, he seemed pretty good.
California is not uniformly governed. Much of interior CA has sane governance. Such is the case in CA-20. Republican governance tends to demoralize, and therefore suppress, the dead vote
“... unless something happens to change that math.”
If the totals were closer one would expect the math to change ... to the Ds favor.
The lesson we should all take from this event is that in November PDJT must win everywhere by double-digits.
That will really accelerate the huge gains in recovering lost freedoms & liberties that the GOP ALWAYS gets us...
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They were both Republicans. Fong was MCCarthys number 1 man. I don’t know why Trump endorsed him. I voted for the former sheriff instead.
Better put some ice on that Surrender Monkeys.
McCarthy’s seat no less and Trump endorsed to boot; share that ice with Kevin, he’ll need it.
They want him dead, not just quiet.
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