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The Los Angeles Times reports:
Tuesday’s primary could have been disastrous for Democrats in California. With the largest portion of their national House battleground in play here, there had been concern for months that the state’s primary, which advances the top two vote-getters regardless of party, would leave voters with two Republicans to choose from in several key races.
Party leaders coaxed, pressured and demanded that lower-tier Democratic candidates step aside to help consolidate their fields. They spent millions of dollars attacking Republicans with the best chances of blocking their candidates from competition and, eventually, explicitly backed two Democrats in at-risk seats.
By early Wednesday morning, it appeared it had all paid off, with Democrats poised to slide into second place for all 14 GOP-held districts in California. Democrats have targeted 10 of those and their candidacies will matter most in the seven seats where voters sent a Republican House member back to Congress but chose Hillary Clinton for president in 2016.
CNN reports:
Democratic hopes of wresting control of the House of Representatives were hanging in the balance early Wednesday morning, as many votes remained uncounted in California’s most competitive congressional races. It may, in fact, be days, if not more than a week, before all the votes are tallied in three of the mostly closely watched races in the country: California-39, California-48 and California-49.
Those districts, which are held by Republicans but were won by Hillary Clinton in 2016, are key to Democratic hopes of notching the 23 seats that they need to win back the House. As of early Wednesday morning, CNN projected that in California’s 49th District, where Rep. Darrell Issa is retiring, one Democrat will advance to the general election, avoiding a shutout for the party.
CNN projected that Rep. Dana Rohrabacher will advance to the general election in California’s 48th District and former California State Assemblywoman Young Kim will advance in California’s 39th District. It’s unclear who their challengers will be. There is still a possibility Democrats could be locked out in these districts.