Republican’s who voted TO support the House Select Committee to probe the Capitol riots…..
WON…..
In California ?
A LA Mayor runoff....
The San Francisco DA gets voted out in a recall….
Another round of Republicans on Donald Trump’s hit list survived on Tuesday, while in San Francisco, a progressive prosecutor didn’t. But that’s not all we learned from Tuesday’s primaries in California, Iowa, Mississippi, Montana, New Jersey, New Mexico and South Dakota.
It also looks like Democrats have a turnout problem in California, the biggest and bluest state of them all. And while Iowa’s primaries didn’t reveal anything about the 2024 presidential contest, the state next door — South Dakota — might have.
Here are six takeaways from a primary night where California — three hours behind the East Coast and legendary for taking its time counting votes — still has contests up in the air.
How to buck Trump and live to tell the tale
Two weeks after Donald Trump was humiliated in Georgia’s primaries, a lower-profile collection of Republicans on Tuesday were putting a finer point on the limitations of Trump’s influence over the GOP.
It’s still enormous, of course. But five of the 35 House Republicans who voted to create a bipartisan commission to investigate the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol appeared on ballots on Tuesday. And all of them appear to have survived to fight another day.
In Mississippi, Rep. Michael Guest was narrowly trailing a Trumpian challenger, Michael Cassidy, who hit Guest directly for his vote for the commission. With 89 percent of the expected vote in, he appeared headed to a June 28 runoff. And it was too early in California to see how Rep. David Valadao, who bucked Trump to vote for both impeachment and the Jan. 6 commission, will fare.
For the most part, Republicans who crossed Trump were not suffering for their infidelity….
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Democrats have a turnout problem
Democrats began worrying last week about their turnout problem in California, which was lagging last year’s gubernatorial recall by several million votes.
It looked even worse on primary day. According to the California-based political data firm Political Data Inc., about 3.3. million ballots had been returned by early morning Tuesday, far less than at the same point last year.
Primary turnout has traditionally not been a good predictor of general election turnout. One explanation for the lack of interest in Tuesday’s primary is that the races in California were simply too boring to care.
But California is not an insignificant state for Democrats. It’s a bastion of progressivism that has bent over backwards to enact policies making it easier for people to vote. For Democrats already confronting a bleak midterm election landscape nationally, any sign of apathy there is reason for concern….
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A brushback for liberal prosecutors
It wasn’t so long ago that progressive prosecutors were the hottest thing on the left.
There was Larry Krasner in Philadelphia, George Gascón in Los Angeles and Kim Foxx in Cook County, Ill. Progressives wanted to overhaul the criminal justice system, and they targeted district attorney races to do it.
But in a sign of how quickly politics is shifting around criminal justice this year, the movement took a major hit on Tuesday. In San Francisco, one of the nation’s most progressive enclaves, Chesa Boudin was recalled — down by a margin of more than 20 percentage points as returns came in.
A former deputy public defender, Boudin had become a leader in criminal justice reform efforts nationwide. But amid a surge in violent crime nationally, even voters in San Francisco had enough….