Current Events > California's still counting and the Republicans are losing even more seats

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https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/us-politics/la-na-pol-california-house-ballots-20181113-story.html

California Republicans lost a fourth seat in the House on Tuesday as Democrat Josh Harder gained enough votes to oust GOP Rep. Jeff Denham in the San Joaquin Valley.

Denhams loss, projected by the Associated Press, came amid signs that two other Republican seats are also in growing jeopardy. The continuing tallies of hundreds of thousands of ballots cast in the Nov. 6 midterm election are consistently favoring Democrats, underscoring the increasingly bleak fortunes of the California GOP.

In Orange Countys latest ballot count Tuesday, Republican Rep. Mimi Walters fell 261 votes behind her Democratic challenger, Katie Porter. Walters finished election night more than 6,200 votes ahead, but her lead steadily dwindled until it vanished on Tuesday.

Young Kim, the Republican running to succeed GOP Rep. Ed Royce of Fullerton, saw her lead over Democrat Gil Cisneros shrink to 711 votes in the updated Orange and Los Angeles county tallies.

Denham, 51, is serving his fourth term in Congress. His loss came Tuesday evening after the latest San Joaquin County count showed Harder had pulled 4,919 votes ahead.

Now that its over, I pledge to be a member of Congress for this entire district regardless of political party, regardless of who you voted for, said Harder, 32, a former venture capitalist who now teaches business at Modesto Community College.

Voting patterns in previous California elections do not bode well for Walters or Kim: With rare exceptions, the ballots counted last, many of them provisional or mailed relatively late, skew strongly Democratic. Tens of thousands of ballots remain to be tabulated in each of those two races.

If Republicans lose all six contests, they will be left with just eight of the states 53 House seats and neither of its two U.S. Senate seats.

The four House defeats, combined with the partys routinely dismal results in races for state office, have already prompted a reckoning among Republican leaders trying to come to grips with the GOPs seemingly unstoppable decline in California.

The California Republican Party isnt salvageable at this time, Kristin Olsen, a former Assembly GOP leader, wrote Tuesday on the CalMatters website. The Grand Old Party is dead partly because it has failed to separate itself from todays toxic, national brand of Republican politics.

During the campaign, GOP congressional candidates in California tried to distance themselves from President Trump, whose warnings of a dangerous immigrant invasion in the weeks before the election were just the kind of tactic that set in motion the decline of the state Republican Party in the 1990s.

In addition to Denham, Californians have unseated Republican Reps. Steve Knight of Palmdale and Dana Rohrabacher of Costa Mesa. They also elected Democrat Mike Levin to replace retiring GOP Rep. Darrell Issa of Vista.

Even that Korean lady looks like she's actually going to lose.
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Why was this election such a fucking shitshow? We still have to try Georgia again because of how outrageously fixed it was,too, in my opinion Texas should be checked out as well because of those machines giving votes to Cruz that should have went to Beto or someone else due to a possibly intentional bug in the machines
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So they started to count the Dead and illegal votes?
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It's California, one would expect they can't count very high.
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Get rekt conservaderps.
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RiderofHogs posted...

So they started to count the Dead and illegal votes?

It's funny how butthurt you Trumpers are. America decided to say fuck him, that's all.
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Theyre hollow victories. No senate = cant do anything. You needed 2/3 of government, not a bunch of states that always vote blue.
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southcoast09 posted...

No senate = cant do anything.

Wrong. The House of Representatives can do a number of things on it's own.

southcoast09 posted...

Theyre hollow victories. No senate = cant do anything. You needed 2/3 of government, not a bunch of states that always vote blue.

The republicans slowly built up their current power bases by taking over on a local level before grasping the house and senate.

Guess what party did really well on the local level last election?
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Democrats are still playing catch up though, as Republicans moved on from local seats of power to stacking the courts with 'activist judges' that will tow the party line in perpetuity.
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RiderofHogs posted...

So they started to count the Dead and illegal votes?

Is there any evidence of this?
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https://apnews.com/ea379b7d1e9641a18537ea14c27125a9

Katie Porter has officially been declared the winner

Bio1590 posted...

Young Kim, the Republican running to succeed GOP Rep. Ed Royce of Fullerton, saw her lead over Democrat Gil Cisneros shrink to 711 votes in the updated Orange and Los Angeles county tallies.

https://www.ocregister.com/2018/11/15/election-2018-democrat-gil-cisneros-takes-lead-in-39th-house-race- democrat-katie-porters-widens-edge-over-gop-rep-mimi-walters/

Cisneros is now 941 votes ahead of Young Kim
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JE19426 posted...

southcoast09 posted...

No senate = cant do anything.

Wrong. The House of Representatives can do a number of things on it's own.

Even if the House does literally nothing but block the right from getting shit done, at this point that would be a major win because...well, look at what the fuck they've done so far.
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Wow I cant believe harder won

That race was so close

California is voting democrat?

I
Don't
Fucking
Believe
It
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glitteringfairy posted...

California is voting democrat?

I
Don't
Fucking
Believe
It

The district Walters just lost has been Republican-held since it was created in 1983.
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Bio1590 posted...

glitteringfairy posted...

California is voting democrat?

I
Don't
Fucking
Believe
It

The district Walters just lost has been Republican-held since it was created in 1983.

Doesn't matter. California is a lost cause. A state of regressive and degenerate ideals. Modern day Sodom
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glitteringfairy posted...

Bio1590 posted...

glitteringfairy posted...

California is voting democrat?

I
Don't
Fucking
Believe
It

The district Walters just lost has been Republican-held since it was created in 1983.

Doesn't matter. California is a lost cause. A state of regressive and degenerate ideals. Modern day Sodom

Lalalalalala it doesnt matter lalalal I dont care llalalalala

glitteringfairy posted...

Modern day Sodom

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glitteringfairy posted...

California is voting democrat?

I
Don't
Fucking
Believe
It

Orange County is where Nixon was from(and where his presidential library is) and was a vital component in Reagan's election to Governor. It's affluent, upper-middle class, and white.

glitteringfairy posted...

Bio1590 posted...

glitteringfairy posted...

California is voting democrat?

I
Don't
Fucking
Believe
It

The district Walters just lost has been Republican-held since it was created in 1983.

Doesn't matter. California is a lost cause. A state of regressive and degenerate ideals. Modern day Sodom

The literal fucking Bible posted...

Now this was the sin of your sister Sodom: She and her daughters were arrogant, overfed and unconcerned; they did not help the poor and needy.

Yeah, those attributes seem to match the GOP more than the Democratic party.
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Republicans are going to have to change the way they do things. The 1950's mentality they seem to be so fixated on is no longer working for them.
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RiderofHogs posted...

So they started to count the Dead and illegal votes?

Citation needed
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008Zulu posted...

Republicans are going to have to change the way they do things. The 1950's mentality they seem to be so fixated on is no longer working for them.

Nunes was winning his district by 30+ points every single year and dropped to 11 this year. Be interesting to see what happens with that one in 2020.
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and how many of those votes are from illegals?

CA was registering people who got a drivers license like illegals to be eligible to vote. but we all know the liberal media won't report on that and conservatives are to weak and cowardly to call that out and say the democrats are committing election fraud and bring that case before a court.

Demography is destiny.

kayoticdreamz posted...

and how many of those votes are from illegals?

I don't know, but you seem to have all the answers, so enlighten us.
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It's interesting to see the conservatives repeating "the senate is all that matters"

that was what democrats were saying from 2010-2014

how did that work out for them?
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kayoticdreamz posted...

Can you keep your bullshit shitposting out of my topic please
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The flips are interesting, maybe a little surprising if you don't happen to follow 538, but nothing about California's process is at all out of the ordinary relative to past years. 70+ percent of our ballots are vote-by-mail and they always take a while to count.
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Why are the democrats taking so long to commit voter fraud when you take this long people start suspecting something.

Hulkasaurusrex posted...

Why are the democrats taking so long to commit voter fraud when you take this long people start suspecting something.

Exactly, now Republicans on the other hand are masters of voter fraud. They are in and out, professional job.
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008Zulu posted...

Hulkasaurusrex posted...

Why are the democrats taking so long to commit voter fraud when you take this long people start suspecting something.

Exactly, now Republicans on the other hand are masters of voter fraud. They are in and out, professional job.

idk Florida and Georgia are Republican con-jobs and those are still getting dragged out.
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Those denham/harder ads were so fuckin annoying on the radio

The23rdMagus posted...

Is there any evidence of this?

It's hogrider, don't waste your time.
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