Blue Wave Sweeps Inland in GOP Loss of Rural California Seat
(CN) – A week ago on Election Night, Republicans had cause to believe the seawall they built against the predicted “blue wave” in California was going to hold up. Now, it looks like the wave will wash away the GOP’s remaining hopes for relevance in the Golden State as many of the slender leads held by congressional incumbents in competitive races have either vanished or narrowed.
On Election Day, California had races for House seats held by Republicans in districts Hillary Clinton carried in 2016. One day later, it looked like the GOP had a good chance of holding on to three, maybe even four of them. Now they appear poised to lose all but one – and even that race has grown closer.
Democrats have been declared winners in four of the seven races, while two remain too close to call. In the seventh, Democrats hope declarations of a Republican victory may be premature.
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