GOP locked out of US Senate Race in California.

[itsrobert]

Projection: state Sen. Kevin de Leon (D) advances to November election vs. Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D) in #CASEN. Republicans locked out.

[temporary311]

1. And that's why I voted for de Leon.

Hopefully the same thing happens in the govs race.

[peabody]

2. Good thinking!

[GReedDiamond]

4. Yeah, me too...

...so, no worries in Nov.

[Exotica]

5. Unfortunately the Rethug Cox is guaranteed 2nd.

Villaraigosa tanked to only 11% so far.

[MoonchildCA]

13. I voted for Villaraigosa...

and de Leon. I really expected it to be closer with Villaraigosa.

[Exotica]

14. I voted for Newsom and de Leon. I will do the same in the general.

I too was surprised how poorly Villaraigosa did. Overall we had a great day though! My Rep., Ted Lieu, cruised to an easy victory as well.

[MoonchildCA]

16. I always planned on voting for Newsom in the general.

I knew he would sail through the primary though, so I was trying to keep the republican out.

[OliverQ]

6. Governor race is already called. GOP Cox will face Newsom. No lockout.

[C Moon]

9. Putin will be all over this election.

[SleeplessinSoCal]

8. Same reason Repubs in 48th are voting for the crook Baugh.

CADems divided us yet there's a slim chance Keirstead and Rouda could finish ahead of him but way behind Rohrabacher. And we went for Hillary and worked like the devil to get out the vote.

[fallout87]

3. not any big surprise.

They were locked out in 2016 as well. CA is solid blue for US Senate.

[grantcart]

7. As of this time Republicans have also been locked out of 10 congressional seats

District 5 6 13 19 20 27 32 34 40 44

This is a BFD.

Democrats haven't been locked out of a single seat (although a couple of districts are close). Even if the Democrats get locked out of a couple of deep red seats the jungle primary has delivered big for Democrats tonight.

Wont work every where (or even every time in CA) but it has worked very well for Democrats in California.

[C Moon]

10. ...and loving it!

[WinstonSmith4740]

11. Would you happen to know if any of those 10 seats

were in what were considered "safe" districts one way or the other? Dems need to pick up 30(?) seats to get The House back. It sure would be a big help if even a couple of those 10 were in what were previously Republican hands.

[grantcart]

12. None of the 10 were in Red districts. To take 2 top spots in a red or swing district is unrealistic

Some were competitive and some were safe and some were very safe.

But simply eliminating the Republicans from even running for the Senate is worth it, without counting the 10.

There are 7 seats that republicans currently hold. we will pick up some of those but not all

But the Republicans were not able to block us in any of the red districts. We are up 10 - 0 and have 43 districts left to fight.

We will win some of the CA districts held by Republicans We will pick up CA 49. Issa won by only 1,600 votes out of 300,000 sent and he isn't running.

The party not in the WH normally picks up about 28 seats. We need to pick up 25 seats. Seven are currently vacant.

There are 48 Republican congressmen who have announced that they are retiring so they lose the huge advantage of incumbency. We could pick up a total of 50 seats.

We will pick up at least 3 in CA, at least 1 in AZ and 4-5 in PA because of the new redistricting.

The huge advantage that Democrats have is that we are recruiting much better candidates across the board.

The Senate is more difficult although we are likely to pick up one seat in Nevada and AZ. Question is can we keep all that we have. Florida looks bad but it looks good in TN.

We have great candidates and are going to take the House.

[WinstonSmith4740]

15. This is all good news.

I used to live in SoCal, so I know what it's like trying to break through in Orange County. Since Issa is too gutless to face the voters again, and Rohrabacher only got 33% of the vote last night (which I believe is also his approval rating) there are clearly unhappy Republicans in Orange County. Unfortunately, whether or not they have the decency to vote the Kremlin's rep out remains to be seen. I live in Nevada now, and will be doing whatever it takes to get that spineless weasel Heller out. I know historically the party in power tends to loose seats in the off year elections, but we are not dealing with normal times. If we were just running against Rethugs, I wouldn't worry, but since we've got Putin's interference machine going, it could be a rough haul.

What do you think Newsom's chances are?