Republicans moved closer to recapturing a seat in the U.S. Congress on Tuesday as Mike Garcia, a former Navy fighter pilot endorsed by President Donald Trump, led in preliminary results from a special election north of Los Angeles.
FILE PHOTO: The U.S. Capitol is seen through a window in the Russell Senate office building where Senate Republicans attended a lunch meeting in the Kennedy Caucus room to wrap up work on coronavirus economic aid legislation to prevent the spread of coronavirus disease in Washington, U.S., March 20, 2020. REUTERS/Mary F. Calvert
But it could take several days for a winner to be declared, because the election was conducted largely by mail-in voting to avoid novel coronavirus exposure at the polls. As long as they are postmarked by election day, California will accept ballots arriving up to three days later. The contest was being watched for clues to which party Americans believe can better handle the coronavirus epidemic and how they think Trump is dealing with it. Smith had challenged Trump’s handling of the crisis.
The 25th district has more registered Democrats than Republicans. Nonetheless, Smith told MSNBC on Sunday that she could lose because many voters were focused on paying rent or filing for unemployment benefits, rather than politics. Republicans won another special election for a congressional seat in a largely rural district of Wisconsin Tuesday, as Republican state Senator Tom Tiffany defeated law school professor Tricia Zunker by 57.2% to 42.8%.
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