Democrat Cox now leading Valadao after Kern County update

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Fresno Democrat T.J. Cox has overtaken incumbent David Valadao in their race for California’s 21st Congressional District seat.

Cox now holds a 438-vote over the Hanford Republican – 55,650 votes to 55,212. This is Cox’s 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 Monday’s 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.