{"id":2392,"date":"2024-11-13T04:17:52","date_gmt":"2024-11-13T04:17:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/democrat-dave-min-keeps-katie-porters-house-seat-blue\/"},"modified":"2024-11-13T04:17:52","modified_gmt":"2024-11-13T04:17:52","slug":"democrat-dave-min-keeps-katie-porters-house-seat-blue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/democrat-dave-min-keeps-katie-porters-house-seat-blue\/","title":{"rendered":"Democrat Dave Min keeps Katie Porter\u2019s House seat blue"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Republican Scott Baugh has conceded to Democratic state legislator <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/2024-election\/results\/california\/house\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dave Min in a heated race<\/a> to succeed California Rep. Katie Porter, ensuring the toss-up Orange County district remains in the Democratic column.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I was looking forward to working with Democrats, Republicans and @therealdonaldtrump to solve serious problems like an open border, increasing crime, and runaway federal spending,&#8221; Baugh said in a statement Tuesday night, &#8220;but the voters have spoken and this is not what is intended for me.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Baugh, a two-time candidate, had narrowly lost the seat two years ago to Porter.<\/p>\n<p>Porter\u2019s decision to run for Senate instead of seeking reelection \u2014 which resulted in a middling third-place finish in the primary \u2014 caused significant angst among Democrats, who feared that it would be difficult to hold the seat without her national profile and fundraising prowess. <\/p>\n<p>Though the Orange County district is no longer the Republican stronghold it used to be, Porter only barely eked out a win in 2022 over Baugh, a former Republican legislator and party operative.<\/p>\n<p>Min, of Irvine, survived a bruising primary against fellow Democrat Joanna Weiss, who hammered him for a drunk driving arrest. In the general election, he touted his endorsement from law enforcement groups and portrayed Baugh as close to former President Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Republican Scott Baugh has conceded to Democratic state legislator Dave Min in a heated race to succeed California Rep. Katie Porter, ensuring the toss-up Orange County district remains in the Democratic column. &#8220;I was looking forward to working with Democrats, Republicans and @therealdonaldtrump to solve serious problems like an open border, increasing crime, and runaway [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2392","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2392"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2392\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}