Katie Porter Poised to Hold Onto Congressional Seat She Flipped Blue in 2018

Katie Porter Poised to Hold Onto Congressional Seat She Flipped Blue in 2018
Rep. Katie Porter (D-Calif.) speaks at a campaign town hall in Tustin, Calif., on Oct. 22, 2018. Mario Tama/Getty Images
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Two years ago, few political analysts would have guessed a progressive Democrat would tear down the “Orange Curtain” in California’s 45th Congressional District, an historically red district in a sea of blue.

Yet Katie Porter, a University of California–Irvine law professor did just that. And on Nov. 4, preliminary results showed Porter with 54 percent of the vote, and her Republican challenger Greg Raths with 46 percent.
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