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Elizabeth Warren Protege Katie Porter Wins Southern California House Race
Elizabeth Warren Protégé Katie Porter Wins Southern California House Race
The Democrat ousted GOP Rep. Mimi Walters in historically Republican Orange County.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/democrat-katie-porter-wins-california-orange-county_us_5bdf7f2ee4b09d43e3200975
Katie Porter, a consumer law expert and former student of Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), flipped a GOP-held seat in California’s traditionally Republican Orange County.
Because so many California voters cast their ballots by mail or through absentee voting, the final outcome of the race was decided more than a week after Election Day. Porter initially trailed her opponent, but the ballots counted after Nov. 6 skewed toward her.
Porter benefited from the backlash to President Donald Trump among moderate suburban voters in California’s 45th Congressional District ― one of seven Republican-controlled seats in a state that Hillary Clinton won in 2016.
She ran as an unabashed proponent of Medicare for all, expanded Social Security and tough banking rules, but emphasized issues with broad appeal: the damaging effect of the Republicans’ tax cuts and effort to repeal the Affordable Care Act, tougher gun laws and women’s reproductive rights.
The Democrat ousted GOP Rep. Mimi Walters in historically Republican Orange County.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/democrat-katie-porter-wins-california-orange-county_us_5bdf7f2ee4b09d43e3200975
Katie Porter, a consumer law expert and former student of Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), flipped a GOP-held seat in California’s traditionally Republican Orange County.
Because so many California voters cast their ballots by mail or through absentee voting, the final outcome of the race was decided more than a week after Election Day. Porter initially trailed her opponent, but the ballots counted after Nov. 6 skewed toward her.
Porter benefited from the backlash to President Donald Trump among moderate suburban voters in California’s 45th Congressional District ― one of seven Republican-controlled seats in a state that Hillary Clinton won in 2016.
She ran as an unabashed proponent of Medicare for all, expanded Social Security and tough banking rules, but emphasized issues with broad appeal: the damaging effect of the Republicans’ tax cuts and effort to repeal the Affordable Care Act, tougher gun laws and women’s reproductive rights.
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