Congressional Progressive Caucus Chair Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.) waded into the California Senate race on Monday, endorsing Rep. Barbara Lee (D-Calif.) within the contest for Sen. Diane Feinstein’s (D-Calif.) seat.
“Barbara is a champion for justice who has been a persistent progressive voice within the U.S. Home, and I do know she’ll combat for our shared progressive values within the U.S. Senate,” Jayapal mentioned in a press release.
“As a girl of shade, I do know illustration issues and I’m excited for Barbara to carry her voice and her lived expertise as a Black girl to the chamber so all of us can have a seat on the desk. I’m proud to endorse Barbara Lee for U.S. Senate,” she added.
Lee is operating towards a number of different high-profile Democrats to switch the outgoing Feinstein, 89, who introduced in February that she wouldn’t be searching for reelection. Reps. Katie Porter (D-Calif.) and Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) are additionally operating for the seat.
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“I’m so grateful to have earned the belief and help of Congresswoman Jayapal,” Lee mentioned in her personal assertion.
“She is among the strongest voices for justice in Congress and it’s been my honor to combat alongside her for a extra progressive future for all. I’m operating this marketing campaign to carry this combat to the U.S. Senate and on Day One, I’m prepared to make use of my expertise and report of outcomes to maneuver California and our nation ahead.”
Although the progressive wing makes up a smaller cohort of the Democratic Social gathering, their endorsements might be closely watched given California’s Democratic leanings. Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) has already backed Porter, who’s a former pupil of the senator’s.
In the meantime, the extra reasonable Schiff has seen endorsements from extra mainstream Democrats reminiscent of former Home Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.).
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The seat is nearly sure to stay inside Democratic management and the California Senate main is about subsequent 12 months for March 5.
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Longtime Rep. Jim Costa, D-Calif., has won re-election in California’s 21st Congressional District after more than a week of counting ballots, according to the Associated Press.
He successfully kept his seat against Republican challenger Michael Maher.
The race was one of the final pending House races of the 2024 cycle, called more than a week after Election Day.
Costa has represented the district since 2005, which includes the San Joaquin Valley, but the Democrat’s political work in California stretches back decades.
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Rep. Jim Costa, D-Calif., speaks during the Bipartisan Defending Borders, Defending Democracies Act news conference in the U.S. Capitol.(Bill Clark)
Costa served in the California State Assembly from 1978 to 1994, before being elected to the California State Senate from 1994 to 2002.
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The Democrat faced Republican opposition from California native Michael Maher, a veteran and former FBI agent.
Greg Flynn still has faith in Applebee’s. The owner of Flynn Group, a mega-franchisee of the casual-dining chain as well as several other concepts, still believes there is demand for full-service chain restaurants. He said the sector has been overbuilt with concepts that weren’t well differentiated.
California’s $20 fast-food wage has indeed hurt traffic. Fast-food restaurants in the state have raised their prices at twice the national average, according to Revenue Management Solutions.
Cracker Barrel’s performance is looking up. The casual-dining chain reported two quarters in a row of same-store sales and revenue growth, according to its preliminary Q1 results. Cracker Barrel’s same-store sales were up 2.9% while its revenues were up 2.6%.
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More than a week after Election Day, Rep. Michelle Steel is still holding onto her razor-thin lead over Derek Tran in the race for California’s 45th congressional district, as of the latest vote tally posted by the secretary of state Thursday, Nov. 14.
But Tran has further cut into her lead in the nailbiter race. Wednesday’s tally had Steel up by 349 votes. On Thursday, her lead shrunk to just 236.
The Southern California race is currently the closest in the state that has yet to be called.
Of the votes tallied Thursday, Tran, a Democrat, clinched 62% of the results from Los Angeles County, which makes up a small part of the district, while 53% of those results on Thursday from Orange County swung in his favor.
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Steel, the Republican incumbent seeking a third term, was leading by more than 11,000 votes the day after Election Day, but a steady stream of blue ballots counted since that earlier tally has allowed Tran to slash away at her lead.
As of Thursday evening, the Orange County registrar of voters said it had counted more than 1.3 million ballots and estimated that there were more than 74,000 ballots left to process countywide. In Los Angeles County, an estimated 99,400 ballots need to be processed still, according to its elections official.
The race has been trending in Tran’s favor, and it’s likely he could flip the district by a narrow margin, said Christian Grose, a pollster and professor of political science at USC.
However, the margin is tight enough that Steel could still pull off a win, he added.
Both campaigns have prepared for the possibility of a recount in the race, soliciting donations to legal funds from their supporters in recent days. Secretary of State Shirley Weber said if there is a recount — and it yields a different outcome — then local elections officials in both Orange and Los Angeles counties would be required to recertify their results.
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Tran is in Washington, D.C., this week for new member orientation, despite not clinching a congressional victory as of yet. If elected, he would become the first Vietnamese American to represent Orange County’s Little Saigon in Congress.
Neither Steel’s nor Tran’s campaigns commented on the latest vote tallies Thursday evening.
All of the other five congressional races that touch Orange County have already been called. If Tran does unseat Steel, Rep. Young Kim, R-Anaheim Hills, would be the only Republican House member to represent an Orange County district.
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