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Inside the GOP's California nightmare
The nightmare results were the end result of a toxic brew of overconfidence and presidential unpopularity, as some Republicans failed to recognize and reckon with the unprecedented negative reaction to President Donald Trump in districts from Orange County to California’s agriculture-heavy Central Valley.
Republicans’ shock has only deepened weeks after Election Day, as absentee and provisional ballots boosted Democrat TJ Cox ahead of Rep. David Valadao, a moderate Central Valley Republican who had previously won at least 57 percent of the vote in good and bad years for the GOP, despite the fact that his party’s presidential candidates regularly lose his district by double digits.
Cox, who led by a 591 votes on Friday afternoon, declared victory earlier in the week, thanking supporters who believed in his bid “even when the outlook may have seemed dim.” (POLITICO still has the race uncalled.
Republicans’ shock has only deepened weeks after Election Day, as absentee and provisional ballots boosted Democrat TJ Cox ahead of Rep. David Valadao, a moderate Central Valley Republican who had previously won at least 57 percent of the vote in good and bad years for the GOP, despite the fact that his party’s presidential candidates regularly lose his district by double digits.
Cox, who led by a 591 votes on Friday afternoon, declared victory earlier in the week, thanking supporters who believed in his bid “even when the outlook may have seemed dim.” (POLITICO still has the race uncalled.
