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California Special Election Sounds Warning for Democratic Party
On Tuesday, Republicans took a House seat back from California Democrats for the first time in over 20-years.
Lost in the news about the coronavirus this week was a political shift of potentially historic significance, one that may bode poorly for Democrats in November.
California, a state which has been steadily turning the House of Representatives blue without fail for two decades, reversed the trend on Tuesday and elected a Republican to Congress.
Republican Mike Garcia beat Democrat Christy Smith in a special election to fill the House seat vacated by the resignation of former California Representative, Democrat Katie Hill.
“We did make history this evening and hopefully the confirmation of the results will prove that here very shortly. To my team, to the folks on the line and with us this evening, I can’t thank you enough. We’ve set a model on how to run a campaign and how to win.” — Rep. Elect Mike Garcia (R-CA). May 12, 2020
Naturally, spin-doctors in the California Democratic Party have been hard at work this week, anxious to reassure nervous Democratic voters that all is still well for November.
Party leaders remind us that Hill’s seat did in fact belong to a Republican before Katie Hill was elected…