LOS ANGELES – Democrat Katie Porter captured a Republican-held U.S.
House seat Thursday in the heart of what once was Southern California’s
Reagan country, extending a rout of the state’s GOP House delegation
that might not be over.

Porter’s upset in Orange County is a sign of changing times in a region
once known nationally as a GOP fortress. The coastal county southeast of
Los Angeles was home to President Richard Nixon, and President Ronald
Reagan once likened it to a Republican heaven.

Porter, a law professor and protege of Massachusetts Democratic Sen.
Elizabeth Warren, defeated Republican Rep. Mimi Walters, who was
re-elected in a walkover just two years ago in the 45th District. The
latest update to the vote count gave Porter 51 percent and a 6,203-vote
lead.

Porter, 44, campaigned on an unabashed liberal agenda and in direct
opposition to President Donald Trump’s priorities: She advocates
overturning his tax reform package, supports universal health care, and
endorses mandatory background checks on all gun sales and a ban on
so-called assault-style weapons.

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