GOP Rep. Mimi Walters was ousted by Democrat Katie Porter in Orange County's 45th Congressional District, a major setback for Republicans al
“A single mother of three, Porter, 44, is a protege of liberal Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren. She campaigned as a consumer attorney who had taken on big banks and would stand up to leaders of both parties.”
I am a voter in the 45th Congressional District. I have a question for my representative, Mimi Walters. Will you stand with me against the administration's bigoted Muslim ban?
Attention MImi Walters---your district is coming for you. And they are coming hard.
GOP Rep. Mimi Walters was ousted by Democrat Katie Porter in Orange County's 45th Congressional District, a major setback for Republicans already reeling from defeats in the Nov. 6 midterm election.
November 15, 2018
(Los Angeles Times) -- In another blow to California Republicans reeling from defeats in the Nov. 6 election, Democrat Katie Porter has ousted GOP Rep. Mimi Walters in an upscale Orange County district that was a longtime conservative bastion.
At the same time, an updated vote count Thursday by the Orange County registrar found Democratic House candidate Gil Cisneros has pulled 941 votes ahead of Republican Young Kim in an adjacent congressional district.
The Associated Press projected Porter’s unseating of Walters in the 45th Congressional District contest after Orange County’s tally found that the two-term incumbent had dropped 6,203 votes behind her challenger.
It is the fifth House seat in California that Republicans lost in last week’s election. Democrats will control at least 44 of the state’s 53 seats in the House. It’s a new low point for a state GOP sorely damaged over the last two decades by the kind of hard-line immigration politics championed by President Trump.
Map source: Orange County Registrar (x) (magnified photo)