We're giving ourselves a big ol' POB for the POTUS model this year. For a humble operation with just a few hundred subscribers & a few thousands follower across all socials... you know the Mick Foley of Forecasts... we feel like that time Mick beat The Rock on Raw. #Election2024
🚨 #CA13 Update - Stanislaus County is in, adding 1,349 votes that break 52.85%/47.15% for Democrat Adam Gray, netting him 77 votes to increase his lead over incumbent Republican John Duarte to 182 votes.
New: Adam Gray (D) overtakes #CA13 Rep. John Duarte (R) by 105 votes w/ new Merced Co. ballot drop. Still way too close to call w/ a few thousand left, but a huge development for Dems.
Exactly 3 weeks after election day, Adam Gray has taken the lead in #CA13 for the first time since election night, and may just hold on to it with extremely little ballots remaining to count.
#CA45 Republican Michelle Steel's uninterrupted streak of losing the post-election day vote updates continues, with Orange County's update adding 612 votes that break 52%/48% for Democrat Derek Tran, netting him 24 votes and increasing his lead to 613 votes.
After tonight's updates, California is likely down to ~228,000 unprocessed ballots. Counties w/the most remaining:
24,846 SLO(w)
21,906 Orange
19,700 LA
17,450 San Bernardino
16,050 Sacramento
14,063 Shasta
12,000 San Diego
10,767 Lake
9,500 Riverside
9,104 San Joaquin
OUR TAKE: We disagree. Tonight was a slight miss for Gray (D), (pending what we expect to be a negligible SJ county drop), just like last night was a slight miss for him, after a major win for Gray on Tuesday.
This one remains tilt Duarte (R) for us.
Small drops in from Fresno & Merced - with Adam Gray narrowly hitting his benchmarks in both for CA-13.
Seems like we’re just gonna be stuck watching drops of a few hundred ballots each for a long, LONG time.
Thanks California.
House Republicans will likely fall short of the 222 seats they got in 2022 but their winning margin was more "comfortable" this time around: Tipping point seat PA-07 (R +1.05) vs the 0.69% margin in IA-03, 2022's tipping point.
#CA45 Update - Orange County's update adds 1,461 votes that break 52.8%/47.2% for Democrat Derek Tran, netting him another 83 votes and increasing his lead over incumbent Republican Michelle Steel to 397 votes.
🚨 #CA13 Update - San Joaquin County, the bluest portion of the district, posts a small update of 45 votes that incumbent Republican John Duarte wins 53.3%/46.7%, sending his lead rocketing by an additional 3 votes from 348 votes to 351 votes.