Democrats picked up one more House seat in California over the weekend, with Gil Cisneros overcoming Republican Young Kim for an Orange County blue sweep. This is delicious on so many levels, including the six seats Democrats picked up in California, the stunning shift of traditionally Republican Orange County, and the specifics of this race.
“In one of the most diverse districts in the country I learned that for all of our differences, we all care about the same things,” said Cisneros, who will be the first Hispanic to represent the district.
“Most of all, we want to live in a world brought together by hope, not divided by hate,” he said in a statement.
In the immediate aftermath of Election Day, with Kim leading in the initial count, many Republicans were doing premature victory laps, with a lot of fuss about how unfair it was that Kim, an immigrant woman, wasn’t getting attention in coverage of the diversity of winning candidates. She was held up as an example of how the media doesn’t give attention to Republican diversity, blah blah blah. Whoops.