More than a week after election results started rolling in, Larry Turner Wednesday conceded the race for mayor of San Diego to incumbent Todd Gloria.
Gloria holds a 56,000-vote lead over Turner, a San Diego police officer, with around 140,000 ballots left to be counted countywide, but Turner had hoped late votes would break for him.Instead, Gloria widened his lead, cruising to a second term with a 55.3% to 44.6% win. Turner blamed"special interests and developers" for outspending his campaign.Local attorney Steven Richter donated $1.7 million to the conservative Lincoln Club of San Diego 's political action committee.
"Our campaign was more than a political race, it was a movement," he said in a statement Wednesday."A movement which proved that we can overcome the factors that divide us, and instead focus on what unites us, for the good of our community. Our team and our volunteers came from all walks of life, across the political spectrum, and formed one coalition: We are the San Diego Party -- non-partisan, independent, and common-sense.
His first term has been a challenging one, as San Diego faced a slew of problems, including increasing rates of homelessness and housing costs, the rising threat of fentanyl, questions about the city's infrastructure following the Jan. 22 storms and the worsening of the ongoing Tijuana River Valley sewage pollution crisis.
Gloria has touted his administration's efforts to build more housing, repair the city's aging infrastructure and provide more shelters for the homeless.
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