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Democrat Adam Gray captures California's 13th US House District, ousting Republican Rep. John Duarte (apnews.com)

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Summary

Democrat Adam Gray narrowly won California’s 13th Congressional District, unseating Republican Rep. John Duarte by fewer than 200 votes in the final U.S. House race decided this year.

Gray’s victory leaves Republicans with 220 House seats to Democrats’ 215.

Duarte, who won the seat in 2022 by 564 votes, conceded, calling the loss part of the political process.

Both candidates emphasized bipartisan appeals, with Gray focusing on water, agriculture, and infrastructure, while Duarte prioritized inflation and crime.

The district, with a large Latino population, leans Democratic but sees lower turnout among working-class voters.

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[-] athairmor@lemmy.world 30 points 3 weeks ago

“Captures” is an odd choice of verbiage for winning an election.

[-] TachyonTele@lemm.ee 12 points 3 weeks ago

A day in the life of a journalist must be crazy. Everyone around them is always doing insane things to eachother.

Capturs, slams, battles, etc. Very hectic profession.

[-] TexasDrunk@lemmy.world 6 points 3 weeks ago

I have a question. Are the journalists actually writing these headlines or is there an official "slam artist" doing the headline writing?

I'm asking because I really don't know.

[-] Feathercrown@lemmy.world 7 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

It's common for titles to be rewritten before being published afaik

[-] futatorius@lemm.ee 2 points 2 weeks ago

I can't even be arsed to read a story anymore unless it's at least got an "eviscerates" or a "skullfucks."

[-] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca -2 points 3 weeks ago

eachother

Still two words, my dude, continuing the 3,000-year trend.

[-] TachyonTele@lemm.ee 3 points 3 weeks ago

Oh no, i missed space once. Whateverwillido

[-] lost_faith@lemmy.ca 5 points 3 weeks ago

hangyourheadinshame

[-] TachyonTele@lemm.ee 1 points 3 weeks ago

Ive been so spaced out, dude

[-] futatorius@lemm.ee 2 points 2 weeks ago

German's older and it's one word in that language.

[-] GBU_28@lemm.ee 3 points 3 weeks ago

Only way I can see it is if it was a historically republican seat, then it's actually a net gain. Otherwise it's just an average election win

[-] ryathal@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 weeks ago

I suppose it had always been Republican as 2022 was the first election after redistricting.

[-] ZK686@lemmy.world -1 points 3 weeks ago

As to be expected, it's California. I didn't even know Republicans had a chance...

[-] dream_weasel@sh.itjust.works 5 points 3 weeks ago

California has several republican congressmen. Rural California leans hard right, but there are a lot of people in urban California. Like a LOT of people.

[-] ryathal@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 weeks ago

There's just a lot of people in California. Trump got almost as many votes in California as Texas, over 6 million in each.

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