";s:4:"text";s:4351:" "Democrats did everything they could to try to rig this election for Christy Smith, but Mike Garcia prevailed through every hurdle that was thrown at him," said National Republican Congressional Committee spokeswoman Torunn Sinclair. "I think there will likely be more money available for that. Trump also attacked the state's decision to move to mail-in voting, even though Republican ballots were already being returned at a higher rate than Democratic ballots. The Republican National Committee and California Republican Party spent nearly $1 million on the special election and combined to contact over 1.4 million voters while sending over 300,000 text messages to voters in the district leading up to Election Day. ", "Basically, if you look at that package, what they want more than anything else is -- it's a voting package," he said. See here for a complete list of exchanges and delays. It would also require 15 consecutive days of early voting and that states begin processing ballots at least 14 days before Election Day. What happens if the president doesn't accept the election results? While Smith has said she supports the Democratic presidential nominee, neither she nor Vice President Joe Biden officially endorsed each other. "But otherwise, for a lot of people, they can go back to doing many of the things that they used to. Republican businessman Mike Garcia's victory over Democratic State Assemblywoman Christy Smith in California's 25th Congressional District race is not only a major victory for Republicans, but it also deals a blow to Trump's contention that mail-in-only elections benefit Democrats and are ripe with fraud. The results do not threaten the Democrats’ House majority, but marked a setback for them coming so soon after Hill had grabbed the long-time Republican suburban turf by nearly 9 percentage points in 2018. Democrats are filing lawsuits at a breakneck pace -- seeking a series of revisions across the country to expand access to absentee ballots and to eliminate obstacles, including witness requirements and laws that require voters to have an "excuse" for obtaining absentee ballots. The financial support for Garcia, who consistently tied with or slightly lagged behind Smith's fundraising, proved useful in the end.
A Navy fighter pilot who is the son of a Mexican immigrant, Garcia was viewed as an appealing candidate, a good "outsider" fit for Republicans in the district. And though Trump has signaled broad opposition to voting by mail, some Republicans on Capitol Hill say they support providing funds to states to make election-related changes, including vote by mail, even while they oppose Democrats' proposals to mandate election law changes. Democrats lost a seat in the U.S. Congress as Christy Smith, a California state legislator, conceded on Wednesday in a special election in suburban Los Angeles to Mike Garcia, a … Ballots returned by mail must be postmarked by November 3, 2020.
Republicans have responded by pledging $20 million to combat those lawsuits. Garcia earlier had issued a statement asserting victory.
"Dems are trying to steal the Mike Garcia Congressional Race in California. But Trump continued to sow doubt about the integrity of the election, suggesting that Democrats would "dump a whole pile of ballots on your desk just before the election." State Assemblywoman Christy Smith conceded the special election for California's 25th congressional district to Republican Mike Garcia in a Wednesday afternoon statement, writing, … Our Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles. "It's one of the most unusual campaigns I've been through," Tiffany said in his election night remarks. "It's much easier to provide funding to the states to accommodate things like mail-in voting -- and much more appropriate to do that than it is to federalize the elections and tell states how they have to do a job they will do better than a federal bureaucracy will ever do," Senate Rules Chairman Roy Blunt, a Missouri Republican, said Wednesday.