Posted by Tina
Republicans managed to secure a shot at the governors seat in the Fall. Turnout statewide for Republicans, if you combine votes for John Cox and Travis Allen, was 36% with John Cox securing enough votes to win the second slot in the race. His victory will help to bring out voters across the state in Novermber. In other races Republican incumbent Devin Nunes won 58% of the vote despite harsh criticism for his role in the Russian investigation…very good news for Republicans. More from Fox News:
in the 10th District, Democrat Josh Harder is holding onto second place by a thread of less than 1,000 votes – making a Democratic shutout in the district a very real possibility once all of the votes are tallied.
Meanwhile, the Republicans avoided shutouts in every California congressional race Tuesday – including all seven of the hotly contested districts that Hillary Clinton won in 2016.
In California’s 45th District, Republican incumbent Mimi Walters – who faced a crowded field of Democratic challengers – advances to November with a solid 53 percent of the vote.
Republicans similarly performed well in the 39th, 48th and 49th Districts.
Republican former state Assemblywoman Young Kim placed first in the 39th District, where combined Republican and independent candidates accounted for over 55 percent of the vote.
Meanwhile, in the 48th District, Republican incumbent Dana Rohrbacher advances to the general election in a district where Republican, independent and Libertarian candidates secured 54 percent of the vote, while non-Democrats secured 49.7 percent of the vote in the 49th District.
And in each of these very progressive California districts, the Republican frontrunners head into the general election race with a clear advantage in finishing first.
All of this winning doesn’t signal certain victory in the Fall but it does suggest that Democrats, even in this radically progressive state, are not as powerful as they once bragged.
A concerning aside: The only “blue wave” headed for California may be a real big wave coming at us from Hawaii:
VOLCANOES NATIONAL PARK, HAWAII (KHNL)- A major chunk of Hawaii Island is set to fall into the ocean any day now. It’s newly formed lava land, and it grows more unstable by the day. Three separate lava flows hit the sea, resulting in plumes of steam. Chief ranger Talmadge Magno details why. “We’ve got 3 ocean entries at this time, the larger being the Lae’apuki Bench entry, and that’s the main one for visitation and our concerns for eventual collapse.”