Democrat Rouda Increased Lead Over Longtime Rep. Rohrabacher
Democratic challenger Harley Rouda was virtually tied with nearly 30-year Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-Costa Mesa), after Rouda’s small lead slightly increased to two points, or 3,602 votes, according to Wednesday’s updated count.
It’s impossible to know how many 48th district voter ballots were still outstanding. There are 409,000 registered voters in the 48th and 186,000 votes have been counted as of Wednesday evening.
Chapman University political science professor Mike Moodian said it’s been bad news for Rohrabacher since the first round of ballot counts released shortly after 8 p.m. election night, when the Congressman had a razor-thin lead of 87 votes.
“I think that was the first sign of bad news for Rohrabacher, because oftentimes early voting tends to trend your older Republican demographic. If Rouda can pull this off, I think it’s one of the biggest political upsets of 2018,” said Moodian, a California politics specialist. “It’s still too early to call.”
At the end of election night, Rouda had a lead of 2,774 votes — a 1.4 percent margin. As of Wednesday night, Rouda had 51 percent of the vote and Rohrabacher had 49 percent.
It likely will take days if not weeks before the outcome Orange County’s tight races are known. As of the final election night update, around 2 a.m. Wednesday, county elections officials reported the results of 650,671 ballots.
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I've been supporting him and cheering him on the whole time!
