Katie Porter Wins in California
Porter becomes the fourth Democrat to flip a Republican-held House seat in Southern California this cycle; Democrat Gil Cisneros now leads Republican Young Kim in the last uncalled race and is poised to become the fifth.
Porter’s win is a huge deal for Democrats and progressives, and not just because it’s another pickup in a wave election. Porter studied under Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) at Harvard Law School, became her research assistant, and went on to do influential work of her own on the subject of bankruptcy. Like Warren, her work focused in part on the predatory systems that push middle-class families into debt.