'Extinction-Level Event' For GOP Reaches CA. These Races Remain Undecided – Patch

‘Extinction-Level Event’ For GOP Reaches CA. These Races Remain Undecided  Patch

From the LA mayor's race to the fate of the state's remaining GOP lawmakers and the billionaire's tax, the dust hasn't settled in California The morning after a political earthquake rattled the country, the contests for several major races and ballot measures in California remain unsettled. Two facts are indisputable, however: the nationwide shellacking voters gave the Republican Party extended to the Golden State, and the partisan gerrymander war served the Democrats in California and nationwide, at least in the short term. Still to be decided: the fates of three of five remaining GOP House incumbents in California; the race to replace Nancy Pelosi in District 11; the Los Angeles mayor's race; and more than half the statewide ballot measures, including the controversial billionaire's tax.

On Wednesday morning, there were still 12 California Congressional races yet to be called by the Associated Press. Many of them will decide the fate of the state's few remaining Republican representatives. As the GOP grapples with the aftermath of a midterm election that can only be described as a rebuke of their party's rule, leaders such as Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis described the election results as close to "a level extinction event" with consequences that could last more than a decade. In California, this is as close to extinction the GOP's congressional delegation has