Democrat Katie Porter overtakes GOP Rep. Mimi Walters in Orange County district ballot count

[Julian Englis]

Source: San Diego Union-Tribune

After clinging for a week to a slim lead in her run for reelection, Republican Rep. Mimi Walters fell 261 votes behind her Democratic challenger Katie Porter as Orange County’s latest ballot count Tuesday underscored the increasingly bleak fortunes of the California GOP.

Democrats have already won three of the GOP’s 14 House seats in California, and Walters’ is one of three others the party is also in serious danger of losing as county registrars finish counting ballots from the Nov. 6 election.

Republican Rep. Jeff Denham dropped further behind Democrat Josh Harder when San Joaquin County released its latest vote count. Denham is now 3,447 votes behind.

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

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

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The hits keep coming.

[Scurrilous]

1. Good news!

[Power 2 the People]

2. Go Katie!

C'mon Cisneros!

[AlexSFCA]

3. GOP has no business in Orange County

increasingy diverse district with large asian american population and highly educated people. It voted for Clinton in 2016. Doesn’t get much bluer than that.

[Lucky Luciano]

10. I guess the Vietnamese Americans are no longer a Republican lock

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They used to be like the Cubans with hatred of Democrats whom they equated with being soft on the commies.

One of my friends from OC whom I used to party with a lot back in my late twenties was a gorgeous pop star in the Vietnamese community. I still chat with her from time to time on Facebook...sadly, I found out that she is a total trumper despising socialism blah blah blah. She is so much less attractive now!

[AlexSFCA]

13. lots of indians used to be gop voters until trump

I know three converts (wealthy indian americans) from SoCal. GOP is now explicitly white nationalist party, no racial minority is truly welcome or considered equal anymore.

[David__77]

4. Republicans will lose six seats total.

...

[aquamarina]

5. Yay, yay, ysy

Dana the Russian is/was my congressman but I think I despise MW even more because not even the Russian voted for that abomination of a tax bill like she did. Go Katie, go!

[cstanleytech]

6. Makes me wonder if Bush would not have been President had certain

SCOTUS judges not interfered and prevented everyone's votes from being counted.

[NBachers]

7. And the hits . . . just keep on comin'!

[flibbitygiblets]

8. "the increasingly bleak fortunes of the California GOP" Hell yeah!!

Love seeing Cali get bluer and bluer!!

[StevieM]

9. CA-10 has just been called for Josh Harder. (eom)

[question everything]

11. Wow! I thinkg that, among other things. she pays for voting for the "tax reform" bill

There are many expensive homes in her district that can no longer deduct their mortgages interests and their property taxed.

[BigmanPigman]

12. I can't believe CA voted for that criminal and his wife Duncan Hunter Jr.

Two criminals and one dead guy were elected...the moron's base is dumber than a sack of hair.

[RockRaven]

14. If the Democrats lock up those 3, & end up flipping 6 districts, the 8 remaining Repubs (out of 53!)

are:

CA-1 LaMalfa
CA-4 McClintock
CA-8 Cook
CA-21 Valadao
CA-22 Nunes
CA-23 McCarthy
CA-42 Calvert
CA-50 Hunter

Half of those guys are, even for people who follow politics, rather anonymous/unknown at the national level. But 3 of them (Nunes, McCarthy, Hunter) are nationally recognized Grade-A, top shelf, USDA Prime Turdburgers.

[Julian Englis]

15. 538 just moved CA 10th to Solid Democrat from Likely Democratic and CA 45 to Likely D from lean D

Link to tweet

We're moving CA-10 from Likely D to Solid D, and CA-45, where Katie Porter has taken the lead over Mimi Walters, from Lean D to Likely D. We still have CA-39 at Lean D but that's pretty generous to Young Kim (R), whose lead is down to 0.4 points and keeps slipping.

[SunSeeker]

16. Woohoo!

[iluvtennis]

17. x 2

[hibbing]

18. Saw a pic of Mimi taking a selfie after ACA repeal celebration

That all white little celebration they had after voting to take health insurance away from 25 million Americans. Trying to post it here.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">This is Mimi Walters celebrating in the Rose Garden after voting to repeal health care for 23 million Americans. She's about to be removed from Congress as the blue wave continues to crest. <a href="https://t.co/5yYDlE5um4">pic.twitter.com/5yYDlE5um4</a></p>— Topher Spiro (@TopherSpiro) <a href="

Link to tweet

?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 14, 2018</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>



Peace

[SunSeeker]

19. Love that! Retweeted!