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Congressman Mike Garcia, R-Santa Clarita, continues to remain ahead of Assemblywoman Christy Smith, D-Santa Clarita, in the close race for the seat in California’s 25th Congressional District (CA-25), with Tuesday’s update more than tripling his lead.
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As of 3:03 p.m. Tuesday, Garcia expanded his lead over Smith by 318 votes. He now leads by an estimated 422 votes.
Last Friday, Smith was closing the gap behind Garcia, with just 104 votes separating the two candidates. However, the 2,241 votes counted from Los Angeles County and the 241 votes counted in Ventura County in Tuesday’s update has since more than tripled the size of that gap.
Garcia had regained his lead a week before, overcoming a nearly 1,300-vote deficit from the day before to establish a 159-vote lead. He later expanded that lead by only 60 more votes on Thursday.
When the first vote counts were reported at around 8:20 p.m. on Nov. 3, Smith held a larger lead over Garcia, as the first round of reporting came from Democratic-leaning vote-by-mail ballots.
However, as the voting center ballots have slowly continued to be reported, Garcia gradually closed that gap.
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Then, at around 7 p.m. on Nov. 5, state officials reported that Garcia took the lead over Smith, leading by 265 votes at the time.
He expanded that lead during the Nov. 6 update to 432. However, Smith earned 1,719 more votes than Garcia in the Nov. 9 update, which placed her back in the lead by 1,287 votes.
Then, Garcia regained his lead the next day, as the Nov. 10 update had him ahead of Smith by 159 votes. He later expanded that lead to 219 after 454 more votes were counted from Ventura County on Thursday.
Smith began to close that gap on Friday, when a 2,479-vote dump from Los Angeles County placed the two candidates at only 104 votes apart.
The results as of Tuesday afternoon can be viewed below:
| Mike Garcia – R – Incumbent: | 168,017 — 50.06% |
| Christy Smith – D: | 167,595 — 49.94% |
As of Friday, Nov. 13, there were 98,440 ballots that still needed to be counted across Los Angeles County. Officials did not release an estimate of the number of ballots remaining specifically in CA-25.
County officials across the state of California have until the beginning of December to report their final results to the state for the presidential race, while they have until Dec. 4 to report the results for all other races. The state then has one week from that deadline to certify the results of the 2020 election.
Neither campaign has officially declared victory or conceded as of Tuesday afternoon.
The next updated count from Los Angeles County is scheduled to be released Friday afternoon.
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So if Garcia ends up winning will we see massive comment postings about voter fraud. Oh, I get it, that only happens if a Republican loses.
No but we may hear about the Russians for years!
If Garcia wins we will have a representative who votes against everything relative to supporting the citizens of CA-25. When Christy wins, she will work for all of us as opposed to Garcia.
You might want to check out his voting record for the short time he was in DC.
Judie,
With Christy at the helm the citizen will get more “stuff” at the expense of all tax payers. I for one don’t want any additional taxes. Mike is doing a great job!
If Garcia wins then we will have someone who represents the district rather than be Pelosi’s lap dog.
It’s certainly the closest and longest race I’ve ever witnessed.
Um…wasn’t the election 2 weeks ago??
Seriously, this is a little ridiculous. Oh Covid-19, blame everything on covid-19, I know.
Garcia maintains his lead with Smith still in hot pursuit.
Garcia then Smith… but wait! coming up from the rear…
It’s Hoof Hearted… Hoof Hearted closing fast..
ahhhhh- another TV time out.
While we await resumption of what has become a marathon contest, a quick recap-
Smith took the early lead and was overtaken by Garcia in what has become a see-saw battle for the victory. Then, Hoof Hearted made his move making this an even more exciting race. Obsessed With Denny, again, stumbled out of the gate and was disqualified for irrelevance and led kicking from the track under a massive cloud of flatulence.
If Garcia wins Smith should ask for a recount and go to court for every possible reason because she lost. Blame the rampant fraud going on and the computers that are being hacked and numbers being changed. Also dem canvassers weren’t allowed to see the counting. Question the dead voters and one final one, trumps a loser LOL
What are the Liberals griping about? You believe in racial identity politics/affirmative action, so aren’t you delighted!?
I’d be delighted to read your obituary, that’s for sure!! ?