{"id":6141,"date":"2020-12-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-12-01T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/just-in-republican-incumbent-mike-garcia-defeats-democrat-christy-smith-in-ca25-15th-gop-pick-up\/"},"modified":"2020-12-01T03:41:08","modified_gmt":"2020-12-01T03:41:08","slug":"just-in-republican-incumbent-mike-garcia-defeats-democrat-christy-smith-in-ca25-15th-gop-pick-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/just-in-republican-incumbent-mike-garcia-defeats-democrat-christy-smith-in-ca25-15th-gop-pick-up\/","title":{"rendered":"JUST IN: Republican Incumbent Mike Garcia Defeats Democrat Christy Smith in CA25 &#8211; 15th GOP Pick-Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fjust-in-republican-incumbent-mike-garcia-defeats-democrat-christy-smith-in-ca25-15th-gop-pick-up%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=6141&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-558895\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thegatewaypundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/EoHP4GnUYAEX1nY-600x312.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"312\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Republican incumbent Mike Garcia defeated Democrat Christy Smith in California\u2019s 25th congressional district.<\/p>\n<p>CA25 covers northern Los Angeles County and a part of eastern Ventura County in Southern California.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-558900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thegatewaypundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_6854-600x317.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"317\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The congressional race finally came to an end Monday after weeks of counting ballots.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-extras trending\"><strong>TRENDING:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thegatewaypundit.com\/2020\/11\/crowd-erupts-cheers-giuliani-tells-az-state-lawmakers-political-career-worth-losing-can-save-right-vote-america-video\">Crowd Erupts in Cheers as Giuliani Tells AZ State Lawmakers: &#8220;Your Political Career is Worth Losing if You Can Save the Right to Vote in America&#8221; (VIDEO)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Republican Mike Garcia won by 339 votes after the last batch of ballots was counted.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy focus is on representing all constituents in CA-25,\u201d Garcia said. \u201cIn the short term, this means pushing to get federal relief to those who are most impacted by COVID, individuals and small businesses. It\u2019s been a tough election, but the fight has been worth it. I am looking forward to two more years. Thank you CA-25!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Christy Smith conceded Monday evening.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is not the end result we fought for, but I am proud of the strong, grassroots campaign we ran,\u201d Smith, D-Santa Clarita, said in a concession statement. \u201cOver the last few weeks, our attorneys reviewed thousands of uncounted ballots and our campaign volunteers undertook an extraordinary effort to cure hundreds of votes throughout the district that may not have been counted. We exhausted every possible option, and did everything within our power to ensure that every voice in this election was heard. Nonetheless, we came up short.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>So far not one Republican incumbent lost reelection in Congress in 2020 and 3 seats flipped red in California yet the Democrat-media complex expects us to believe President Trump lost the election.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/election-2020-donald-trump-iowa-mariannette-miller-meeks-elections-e3f235f217707a78fcec059f8e0b4ffa\">Republican Dr. Mariannette Miller-Meeks won her recount in Iowa\u2019s Second Congressional district<\/a> by 6 votes.<\/p>\n<p>Add Iowa\u2019s win to CA25 and that makes 15 seats for Republicans this election cycle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Republican incumbent Mike Garcia defeated Democrat Christy Smith in California\u2019s 25th congressional district. CA25 covers northern Los Angeles County and a part of eastern Ventura County in Southern California. The congressional race finally came to an end Monday after weeks of counting ballots. TRENDING: Crowd Erupts in Cheers as Giuliani Tells AZ State Lawmakers: &#8220;Your &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2180841,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.thegatewaypundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/EoHP4GnUYAEX1nY-600x312.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"JUST IN: Republican Incumbent Mike Garcia Defeats Democrat Christy Smith in CA25 &#8211; 15th GOP Pick-Up","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.thegatewaypundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/EoHP4GnUYAEX1nY-600x312.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"JUST IN: Republican Incumbent Mike Garcia Defeats Democrat Christy Smith in CA25 &#8211; 15th GOP Pick-Up","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6141\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2180841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}