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Related: About this forumDemocrat Cox now leading Valadao after Kern County update
Fresno Democrat T.J. Cox has overtaken incumbent David Valadao in their race for Californias 21st Congressional District seat.
Cox now holds a 438-vote over the Hanford Republican 55,650 votes to 55,212. This is Coxs first lead in the race.
The 21st is the last contested Congressional race in the country.
Kern County processed about 8,000 uncounted ballots nearly 1,900 of which were in the 21st in Mondays update. A little under 3,000 ballots remain in Kern, where Cox has secured 61 percent of the vote to date.
The lead is far from set in stone, as Valadao-favoring Kings County and Fresno County which has broken almost dead even have thousands of outstanding ballots to be counted in the next few days.
But it appears Cox is on his way to delivering Democrats their 40th flipped seat one that analysts and news media called for Valadao on election night.
At: https://www.fresnobee.com/news/politics-government/election/local-election/article222204075.html
And then there were 40: GOP incumbent David Valadao and Democratic challenger T.J. Cox.
Cox has now pulled ahead of Valadao in the nation's last undecided House race, though thousands of votes remain to be counted.
California_Republic
(1,826 posts)Is doing their updates their site is off-line
sandensea
(21,620 posts)That said, if I had to choose I would've rather seen Nunes go down in defeat rather than Valadao.
Valadao's a garden variety non-entity seat-warmer; Nunes, on other hand, is fit for Ft. Leavenworth.
msongs
(67,381 posts)sandensea
(21,620 posts)I try.
Luckily the article was well-researched, freeing one from the need to look up essential facts andf figures from third-party sources.