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Republican widens edge in tight U.S. House fight north of LA
Fox 5 Vegas ^ | Nov 17, 2020 | By MICHAEL R. BLOOD Associated Press

Posted on 11/17/2020 7:07:08 PM PST by 11th_VA

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Republican U.S. Rep. Mike Garcia extended his narrow lead Tuesday over Democrat Christy Smith in the 25th Congressional District north of Los Angeles, where ballot-counting continued in the back-and-forth contest.

By the end of last week, Garcia had opened up a lead of just over 100 votes. An updated tally from Los Angeles and Ventura counties showed his edge had grown to 422 votes.

Garcia, a former Navy fighter pilot and defense industry executive, captured the swing district seat in a special election in May against Smith. The post was left vacant after former Democratic Rep. Katie Hill resigned in 2019 amid a House ethics probe...

(Excerpt) Read more at fox5vegas.com ...


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This one is looking really good !!!

1 posted on 11/17/2020 7:07:08 PM PST by 11th_VA
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To: 11th_VA

P r a y I n g

Most especially for Trump. But for everything else too.


2 posted on 11/17/2020 7:08:01 PM PST by CondoleezzaProtege
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To: 11th_VA

Why are they still counting votes?


3 posted on 11/17/2020 7:11:15 PM PST by DOC44
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To: 11th_VA

Good news here- would be the 13th House seat flipped from dem to GOP and with a good guy


4 posted on 11/17/2020 7:12:40 PM PST by silverleaf (Age Takes a Toll: Please Have Exact Change.)
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To: DOC44

Its....California.


5 posted on 11/17/2020 7:13:09 PM PST by silverleaf (Age Takes a Toll: Please Have Exact Change.)
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To: 11th_VA

The tighter the balance of power is in the overall House of Representatives, the harder it will be for their most politically ambitious members to resign their seats and take jobs in a potential Biden administration (taking their similarly politically ambitious senior staffers along into the depths of the swamp with them). There’s value in this as well.


6 posted on 11/17/2020 7:15:27 PM PST by jz638
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To: silverleaf

Oh yeah...........;)


7 posted on 11/17/2020 7:15:43 PM PST by Dawgreg
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To: 11th_VA

Great news! Hope he wins. I didn’t think there was much hope for him in his gerrymandered district.


8 posted on 11/17/2020 7:17:07 PM PST by Bernard Marx
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To: 11th_VA

Pubbies winning all over the country. Taking seats from dems coast to coast yet, we are to believe that President Trump lost this election? It doesn’t just strain credulity it snaps it with extreme force. The Fraud is as obvious as the wart on a witch’s nose.


9 posted on 11/17/2020 7:18:05 PM PST by ocrp1982
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To: Bernard Marx

I live in Mike’s district and everybody in my little mountain hamlet was for him and Trump. For what it’s worth.


10 posted on 11/17/2020 7:20:22 PM PST by Orosius
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To: jz638

Not only that, the smaller their majority, the more prima donnas and others in the Democrat party can hold Pelosi’s hostage....and the harder it is for her to push through radical legislation.


11 posted on 11/17/2020 7:21:11 PM PST by FLT-bird
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To: DOC44

Provisional ballots, etc. Can take up to 21 days.


12 posted on 11/17/2020 7:24:26 PM PST by Maudeen (A must listen! https://www.biblegateway.com/audio/dramatized/niv/Rev.1)
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“ Why are they still counting votes?”

Give them a break! Stealing an election doesn’t happen overnight (well, except perhaps in shiteholes like Philadelphia and Detroit). It takes time to get the ballots over the southern border and into the hands of crooked vote counters. The Mexican mules/smugglers also tend to get greedy and withhold the ballots demanding more money.


13 posted on 11/17/2020 7:24:52 PM PST by TonyM (Score Event)
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To: DOC44

They always keep counting until the Democrat wins.


14 posted on 11/17/2020 7:32:17 PM PST by Roadrunner383
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To: silverleaf

If we get close enough perhaps we could offer a few pallets of cash to enough dems congressmen to get them to switch to Republican and give us the House. If we have to I bet we could find someone who could set up a sex scandal sting and convince them to switch, or else.

WHATS THAT? Its beneath us? Well I can guarantee you that right now the slime-ball dems are doing exactly that to a couple of our weakest RINOs. A couple of females come to mind if you get my drift. You can bet that if dems get within one Senate seat they will do everything, legality be damned, to get a Murcowski or Collins to be a turncoat.


15 posted on 11/17/2020 7:36:04 PM PST by TonyM (Score Event)
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McCarthy said he can control the floor if only 6-8 dems vote with the GOP

The last time Pelosi won Speaker of the House, 10 dems voted against her and they are all coming back...plus an energized GOP “squad” of some really good people.

Lots of dems unhappy with 80 yr old Crazy Nancy. Ding Dong?


16 posted on 11/17/2020 7:50:39 PM PST by silverleaf (Age Takes a Toll: Please Have Exact Change.)
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To: Roadrunner383

yeah not for the other elections besides the presidency.

Or Rs wouldn’t be picking up so many seats.

The legislatures in a number of states and the house made big gains.

i guess they put all their energy into getting Trump knocked off.

Maybe they figure that will shut us up.

It shouldn’t


17 posted on 11/17/2020 7:54:42 PM PST by dp0622 (Tried a coup, a fake tax story, tramp slander, Russia nonsense, impeachment and a virus. They lost.)
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To: 11th_VA

Excellent! We sent him money.


18 posted on 11/17/2020 8:33:16 PM PST by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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To: Orosius

I’m in his district as well..Back in May Garcia won by a large margin..Hope he can keep his lead.


19 posted on 11/17/2020 8:43:48 PM PST by psjones (u)
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To: 11th_VA

Good, the second closest race’s GOP lead widens. The closest race enters recount (just a retabulation) this week with GOP 47 votes ahead in IA-2 trying to pick up an open seat.


20 posted on 11/17/2020 8:50:14 PM PST by JohnBovenmyer (Dewey eyed Joe lost )
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