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California Republican Mike Garcia on flipping House seat: 'There's an awakening here'
Fox News ^ | May 14 2020 | Talia Kaplan

Posted on 05/14/2020 10:54:50 AM PDT by knighthawk

Mike Garcia reacted on “Fox & Friends” on Thursday to becoming the first Republican to flip a Democratic House seat in California in more than two decades saying, “There's an awakening here in California.”

Democrat Christy Smith conceded the special election race for California's 25th Congressional District to Garcia on Wednesday, marking the first time Republicans will retake a Democratic-held congressional seat in the state since 1998.

Garcia, a former Navy combat pilot, had a 12-point edge over Smith, a state assemblywoman, as of late Tuesday night in the contest for the swing-district seat vacated by Katie Hill after her resignation.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: california; christysmith; election; gavinnewsom; mikegarcia
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To: knighthawk

One thing for sure just like the election and 16 that shocked the world ; when the Republican wins by enough margin that the Democrats don’t say “hold on we got to count some more balllots !” you know it was very decisive

What’s very important in the electorate right now is women - as they have been since the 19th amendment was passed at the start of the 20th century

Women have been taught over and over by the Democrats to just vote for the woman no matter what because women are smarter or whatever

Without a large majority in the women vote , Democrats can never win anything ! because men are much smarter than the fall for their bull crap

That being said this election he had a red blooded patriotic former military man and family man who really never get anything in politics until this

Running against one of your liberal women state legislature types that had been doling out the money for years and years and years and we won in California

Now of course this is the desert area Palmdale Riverside etc. but nonetheless it is still Southern California and it was a decisive win maybe 12 points


21 posted on 05/14/2020 11:23:55 AM PDT by Truthoverpower (The guv mint you get is the Trump winning express !)
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To: knighthawk
Sane Californians can only hope that some liberals will get so turned off by the left that they will see the light. How many more criminals let out of jail, criminal aliens protected from deportation, homeless people defecating on the street will it take?

Now to go along with the anarchy we have tyranny and perfect examples of Sam Francis's anarcho-tyranny. Criminals let out of jail so law abiding people can be put in jail. Criminals roaming the streets which law abiding citizens are prohibited from walking on.

22 posted on 05/14/2020 11:24:14 AM PDT by palmer (Democracy Dies Six Ways from Sunday)
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To: knighthawk

I hope so, as diverse as CA is there should be more Republican seats.


23 posted on 05/14/2020 11:25:53 AM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizens Are Born Here of Citizen Parents_Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Sarah Barracuda

I keep hearing the argument that the reason why Republicans lose over and over is because of the illegal alien vote

All of the Hispanic immigrants I’ve worked with years of contractor all Republicans so we just need to win them over with our ideas

Many many many illegal aliens come to this country kiss the ground love this country worked very hard love their family and our religious and are born and raise to be Republicans they just get the media bull crap

That being said especially in Central and South America there’s a lot a communist Marxist Sandinista LA RAZA types that are just like your leftISTS in this country very dangerous


24 posted on 05/14/2020 11:26:50 AM PDT by Truthoverpower (The guv mint you get is the Trump winning express !)
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To: knighthawk

Isn’t this seat up for a vote again in November? Might be a temporary victory. California is going to take a lot of work to get turned around.


25 posted on 05/14/2020 11:29:07 AM PDT by AnotherUnixGeek
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To: alloysteel
California version of “ballot harvesting”

Is there any chance of that being declared illegal?

26 posted on 05/14/2020 11:31:51 AM PDT by ducttape45 ("Righteousness exalteth a nation; but sin is a reproach to any people." Proverbs 14:34)
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To: knighthawk

It is wrong to project this result (and the one in Wisconsin) into the general election to be held in six months. A lot can happen in that time. However, the results probably suggest that if the election were held today, the Democrats would suffer a big beat-down across the country. Right now, the momentum is on our side.


27 posted on 05/14/2020 11:36:25 AM PDT by CommerceComet (Hillary: A unique blend of arrogance, incompetence, and corruption.)
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To: knighthawk

If he can win again in November, it’s really a big __ckin’ deal, as Biden would say. It’s kind of a big deal anyway. The GOP needs all the spine it can find. This should give them some courage.


28 posted on 05/14/2020 11:47:27 AM PDT by cdcdawg ("Americanism, not Globalism, will be our credo." DJT 2016)
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To: ducttape45

The Democrats have banned the word “illegal”:

https://blog.ap.org/announcements/illegal-immigrant-no-more

Hang your head in shame, citizen! :-(


29 posted on 05/14/2020 11:47:28 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: KC_Conspirator

[Its a 12 point lead. They cant cheat if its not close.]


Where do you see this? The official number is 8%:

https://electionresults.sos.ca.gov/special/us-rep/district/25


30 posted on 05/14/2020 11:52:43 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: Osage Orange

I left in 1979.


31 posted on 05/14/2020 11:59:35 AM PDT by Luke21
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To: knighthawk

12 points. In light of today’s politics and it’s California to boot...he slaughtered her.


32 posted on 05/14/2020 12:02:41 PM PDT by TalBlack
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To: knighthawk

The seat wasn’t flipped. It was taken back.


33 posted on 05/14/2020 12:05:27 PM PDT by Mr. Blond
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To: Luke21

I visited CA in 2008 to see a dying friend. Not been back since.


34 posted on 05/14/2020 12:25:11 PM PDT by pabianice
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To: pabianice

I stopped going many years ago. I think 2005 was my last time there, also to visit a dying friend. I consider it to be East Germany. It’s remarkable this site exists there.


35 posted on 05/14/2020 12:28:43 PM PDT by Luke21
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To: Zhang Fei

56 - 44?


36 posted on 05/14/2020 12:40:14 PM PDT by KC_Conspirator
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To: KC_Conspirator

[56 - 44?]


You are right. The last time I saw this, it said 54-46. Mea culpa. That is a blowout number - the best GOP result in a decade, and he’s not even an incumbent.


37 posted on 05/14/2020 12:44:21 PM 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: knighthawk; All

Please be aware that they are counting until the end of the day Friday. I HOPE they cannot ‘find’ enough ballots to cheat Smith into the seat.


38 posted on 05/14/2020 12:45:19 PM PDT by originalbuckeye ('In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act'- George Orwell..?)
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To: Luke21

You were faster than I....


39 posted on 05/14/2020 12:49:15 PM PDT by Osage Orange (Mar's isn't a place to raise your kid...)
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To: cgbg
Illegal, Illegal, ILLEGAL!!!!!!!!!

All immigrants who did not do so according to the law and jumped the border is an ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT!

How's that!!!

40 posted on 05/14/2020 12:59:17 PM PDT by ducttape45 ("Righteousness exalteth a nation; but sin is a reproach to any people." Proverbs 14:34)
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