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"content": "\u003cp>Gavin Newsom might just be the most progressive Democrat ever elected governor in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom, who ran for San Francisco mayor in 2003 as a business-friendly moderate, has since earned his progressive bona fides by championing same-sex marriage, gun control, criminal justice reform and legalization of marijuana. And as he begins to assemble his new administration, his impressive victory is raising expectations from liberals that their priorities will come first.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of those groups with high hopes is the powerful nurses union, which championed Newsom because of his \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11653117/newsom-claims-s-f-street-cred-on-single-payer-issue\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">embrace of single-payer health care\u003c/a>. At a national convention of nurses in San Francisco just over a year ago, then-candidate Newsom \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11618287/is-single-payer-becoming-a-litmus-test-for-democrats\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">told them exactly what they wanted to hear\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My opponents, they call it snake oil. I call it single-payer. It’s about access. It’s about affordability. It’s about time, Democrats,” Newsom told the adoring crowd.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11702465/gavin-newsom-elected-governor-of-california\">Gavin Newsom Elected Governor of California\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11702465/gavin-newsom-elected-governor-of-california\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS33135_Js5Ru3EQ-qut-1180x811.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Single-payer is where state government essentially replaces insurance companies in paying health care providers. Last year, nurses were furious when a bill to advance single-payer died in the state Assembly and Gov. Jerry Brown expressed doubt the state could afford it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, with Newsom set to replace Brown as governor, Stephanie Roberson, legislative advocate with the California Nurses Association, hopes to move the single-payer ball down the field.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think for us, we all need to be in a room like-minded with the goal in mind of passing a single-payer system,” Roberson told KQED. “We have spent so much time sitting in a room saying that we’re for the system, but we don’t actually get there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Roberson knows the opposition to single-payer is fierce — but she expects Newsom to make it happen. That said, nurses are also aware that he has in some ways backed away from the ironclad guarantee he gave nurses last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You know, I understand that the lieutenant governor is talking to a lot of folks, a lot of people have his ear,” Roberson said. “We’re aware of what appears to be some backpedaling on behalf of Gavin Newsom.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11653162\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11653162\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/IMG_5130-e1519947739518-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Jennifer Siebel Newsom, wife of Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom, stands beside a bus from the nurses' union supporting him for governor.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/IMG_5130-e1519947739518-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/IMG_5130-e1519947739518-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/IMG_5130-e1519947739518-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/IMG_5130-e1519947739518-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/IMG_5130-e1519947739518-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/IMG_5130-e1519947739518-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/IMG_5130-e1519947739518-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/IMG_5130-e1519947739518-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/IMG_5130-e1519947739518-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jennifer Siebel Newsom, wife of Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom, stands beside a bus from the nurses union supporting him for governor. \u003ccite>(Scott Shafer/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, Angie Wei with the California Labor Federation — one of Newsom’s most ardent supporters — says creating decent jobs that pay a living wage is her group’s priority. The most pressing issue there is the future of work in the age of technology, an issue on which Newsom loves to pontificate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He’s a man we believe looks forward toward the future,” Wei said. “And that’s kind of the orientation we need, to solve big challenges facing workers in our economy. And our challenge is going to be to make sure that workers get uplifted by the use of technology, that technology can really be a tool to make workers’ lives easier, and not just to eliminate our jobs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wei says that means making sure labor is at the table — a key player in the new administration. But at the same time, Newsom may be pressed by Republicans, business types and even some local officials to do something about mounting costs related to public employee retirement costs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another group hoping to be at the table — environmentalists, especially the so-called “leave it in the ground” lobby. They were disappointed Gov. Brown didn’t take a harder line on fossil fuel production.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Adam Scow, with \u003ca href=\"https://www.foodandwaterwatch.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Food and Water Watch\u003c/a>, is hoping Newsom will phase it out altogether.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A reasonable phaseout means starting with the most dangerous and egregious practices,” Scow said, meaning an end to fracking and drilling for oil in Southern California neighborhoods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It hasn’t happened yet. It’s gonna take guts. But we think he’s the guy to do it. We need Gavin Newsom to show bold leadership in saying, ‘OK, it’s time to reduce the influence and use of oil in California.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And while children’s advocates and others appreciate the incremental progress made under Brown — for example, creating and then expanding a state earned income tax credit — Chris Hoene, executive director of the California Budget and Policy Center, said there’s more to be done.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This governor has made strides, but we’re still not back to where we were before the Great Recession,” Hoene said. “I would expect (the Legislature) to see whether a Gov. Newsom is perhaps willing to go a bit further than Gov. Brown was in general.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But what are Newsom’s priorities?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to health care, he wants to tackle housing and childhood poverty, while expanding early childhood education. Of course all these issues have trade-offs, and many cost money. And eventually, that recession Jerry Brown has been warning about for six years will actually happen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So the new governor will have to do a serious balancing act with his supporters on the left to make sure their priorities — and his — don’t get forgotten.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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At a national convention of nurses in San Francisco just over a year ago, then-candidate Newsom \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11618287/is-single-payer-becoming-a-litmus-test-for-democrats\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">told them exactly what they wanted to hear\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My opponents, they call it snake oil. I call it single-payer. It’s about access. It’s about affordability. It’s about time, Democrats,” Newsom told the adoring crowd.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11702465/gavin-newsom-elected-governor-of-california\">Gavin Newsom Elected Governor of California\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11702465/gavin-newsom-elected-governor-of-california\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS33135_Js5Ru3EQ-qut-1180x811.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Single-payer is where state government essentially replaces insurance companies in paying health care providers. Last year, nurses were furious when a bill to advance single-payer died in the state Assembly and Gov. Jerry Brown expressed doubt the state could afford it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, with Newsom set to replace Brown as governor, Stephanie Roberson, legislative advocate with the California Nurses Association, hopes to move the single-payer ball down the field.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think for us, we all need to be in a room like-minded with the goal in mind of passing a single-payer system,” Roberson told KQED. “We have spent so much time sitting in a room saying that we’re for the system, but we don’t actually get there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Roberson knows the opposition to single-payer is fierce — but she expects Newsom to make it happen. That said, nurses are also aware that he has in some ways backed away from the ironclad guarantee he gave nurses last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You know, I understand that the lieutenant governor is talking to a lot of folks, a lot of people have his ear,” Roberson said. “We’re aware of what appears to be some backpedaling on behalf of Gavin Newsom.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11653162\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11653162\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/IMG_5130-e1519947739518-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Jennifer Siebel Newsom, wife of Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom, stands beside a bus from the nurses' union supporting him for governor.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/IMG_5130-e1519947739518-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/IMG_5130-e1519947739518-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/IMG_5130-e1519947739518-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/IMG_5130-e1519947739518-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/IMG_5130-e1519947739518-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/IMG_5130-e1519947739518-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/IMG_5130-e1519947739518-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/IMG_5130-e1519947739518-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/IMG_5130-e1519947739518-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jennifer Siebel Newsom, wife of Lt. 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That program, like many of the youth it promises to serve, is still in its infancy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This fall, Schaaf announced another program, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/Oakland-to-pay-rent-for-low-income-residents-at-13309308.php\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Keep Oakland Housed\u003c/a>, which put $9 million toward keeping those on the verge of homelessness from falling off the cliff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her first term featured some high-profile scandals and tragedies, as well as the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11700750/after-scathing-un-report-on-homelessness-advocates-demand-oakland-stop-sidewalk-sweeps\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">rapid growth of homelessness\u003c/a> in the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Ghost Ship fire, which killed 36 people on Dec. 2, 2016, exposed serious deficiencies in the city’s follow-up on \u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2017/07/16/huge-failure-80-percent-of-oakland-firefighter-warnings-of-unsafe-buildings-go-unchecked/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">safety concerns at problem properties\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11000284/oakland-mayor-libby-schaaf-defends-handling-of-police-scandals\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">A sexual assault scandal\u003c/a> within the ranks of Oakland police and other local law enforcement agencies saw the Police Department cycle through three police chiefs in just a little over a week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Price, who at one point represented the teenage victim in the police sex cases, was on the ballot earlier this year in her \u003ca href=\"https://www.eastbayexpress.com/oakland/a-bare-knuckle-fight-for-top-cop/Content?oid=16110603\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">unsuccessful attempt to unseat\u003c/a> Alameda County District Attorney Nancy O’Malley.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">‘Whoever is sitting in that seat is going to have thousands of people who are organized into a progressive bloc of accountability.’\u003ccite>Cat Brooks \u003cbr>Oakland mayoral candidate\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Challenger Brooks has made a name for herself as a prominent voice against gentrification and police violence. She was active in Occupy Oakland, is a part of the Black Lives Matter movement and leads the Anti Police-Terror Project — a group that calls attention to officer-involved deaths in the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brooks said that in the end, running for mayor wasn’t just about winning and that the progressive pushback against Schaaf has created a movement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Whoever is sitting in that seat is going to have thousands of people who are organized into a progressive bloc of accountability,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schaaf said she welcomes Oakland’s activist edge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are a feisty city,” she said. “We don’t like authority or power. We challenge status quo thinking.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That, Schaaf said, “keeps leaders like me on our toes.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf has won her bid for a second term, easily outdistancing a field of nine challengers vying to govern a city that’s in the throes of fierce debates over gentrification, homelessness, racial equity and police practices. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With 100 percent of precincts reporting early Wednesday morning, Schaaf received nearly 56 percent of first-place votes in the city’s ranked-choice election — well over the 50 percent she needed to win outright.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schaaf faced a series of hurdles in her first term, but attracted favorable national attention among progressives for challenging the Trump administration by \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2018/02/28/oakland-mayor-libby-schaaf-tipped-off-immigrants-about-ice-raid-and-isnt-sorry-she-did/?utm_term=.204f32b36d87\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">announcing planned immigration raids\u003c/a> in the East Bay before they happened.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The incumbent mayor said her experience puts her in place to tackle the issues facing the city, including gentrification and the displacement of Oakland’s historic African-American population.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schaaf’s main challenge came from two black women, civil rights attorney Pamela Price and activist/organizer Cat Brooks. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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It will let the state sell $4 billion in bonds to finance the construction and renovation of affordable multifamily housing projects; housing construction near public transportation; down payment assistance for low- and moderate-income homebuyers; housing construction for farmworkers; and home loan assistance to veterans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[election2018result race=8742]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Proposition 2 will let the state use existing funds to issue bonds that will pay for housing homeless, mentally ill Californians. The money to pay for those bonds will come from Proposition 63, an income tax on people who make more than $1 million a year, which voters approved in 2004.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[election2018result race=8743]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Proposition 63 provides funding for county mental health services, but lawmakers decided in 2016 that $140 million a year of the money should be spent on stabilizing mentally ill people by housing them. But they decided to go back to voters with Proposition 2 after a lawsuit delayed their ability to immediately use the Proposition 63 funds for housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is, without question, a pivotal moment for mental health care in California,” Sacramento Mayor Darrell Steinberg said in a statement about the passage of Proposition 2. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“By leveraging just a small percentage of existing mental health funding, we will be able to build enough supportive housing over the course of this program to get tens of thousands of people who are homeless and living with serious mental illness off the streets and into recovery.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11675163\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS19963_160623_Florida-St-Encampment_bhs06-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A homeless encampment located on Florida St in the Mission District of San Francisco on Thursday, June 23, 2016.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11675163\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS19963_160623_Florida-St-Encampment_bhs06-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS19963_160623_Florida-St-Encampment_bhs06-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS19963_160623_Florida-St-Encampment_bhs06-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS19963_160623_Florida-St-Encampment_bhs06-qut-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS19963_160623_Florida-St-Encampment_bhs06-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS19963_160623_Florida-St-Encampment_bhs06-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS19963_160623_Florida-St-Encampment_bhs06-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS19963_160623_Florida-St-Encampment_bhs06-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS19963_160623_Florida-St-Encampment_bhs06-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS19963_160623_Florida-St-Encampment_bhs06-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A homeless encampment located on Florida Street in the Mission District of San Francisco on Thursday, June 23, 2016. \u003ccite>(Brittany Hosea-Small/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>California has some of the highest housing costs in the U.S., largely driven by a lack of construction. According to the nonpartisan Legislative Analyst’s Office, an average California home costs 2½ times the national average, and rent is about 50 percent higher than in the rest of the nation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The programs paid for by Proposition 1, the housing bond, could help as many as 55,000 families, according to the LAO. Supporters say that Proposition 2 will help build 20,000 permanent supportive housing units, where residents could also connect with mental health and substance abuse services, medical care, education and job training, and case managers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Proposition 1 was supported by the state Democratic Party and nearly all of the state’s Democratic representatives, as well as local governments, labor groups and hundreds of community organizations. There was no official opposition campaign. Proposition 2 had even wider support, from many of the same groups and the state Democratic and Republican parties as well as police groups and many mental health associations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But one chapter of the National Alliance on Mental Illness, in Contra Costa County, opposed Proposition 2, saying it will take money away from mental illness treatment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lawmakers voted in 2017 to put Proposition 1 on the ballot as part of a broader legislative package aimed at increasing housing production in California and lowering housing costs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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It will let the state sell $4 billion in bonds to finance the construction and renovation of affordable multifamily housing projects; housing construction near public transportation; down payment assistance for low- and moderate-income homebuyers; housing construction for farmworkers; and home loan assistance to veterans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Proposition 2 will let the state use existing funds to issue bonds that will pay for housing homeless, mentally ill Californians. The money to pay for those bonds will come from Proposition 63, an income tax on people who make more than $1 million a year, which voters approved in 2004.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Proposition 63 provides funding for county mental health services, but lawmakers decided in 2016 that $140 million a year of the money should be spent on stabilizing mentally ill people by housing them. 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The American people want peace; they want results; they want us to work for positive results for their lives,” Pelosi said at an election night celebration with top House Democratic leaders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And after Trump’s concentrated focus on rallying in the final weeks of the campaign, Senate Democrats in several red states suffered projected losses. The GOP is poised to enlarge its majority by at least two seats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Republicans will maintain control of the Senate for at least two more years, after Democratic losses in Indiana, Tennessee, Texas, North Dakota — states that Trump won by double digits in 2016. The president campaigned aggressively in those states.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Senate GOP leaders capitalized on a battleground map that left Democrats defending 26 seats, including 10 in states Trump won in 2016. Now they must defend Trump’s hard-line rhetoric and policy on issues like immigration and trade, despite tensions within the party over those same issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump was not on the ballot this year, but the midterm election was viewed as a nationwide referendum on his leadership. Now, leaders from both parties will pursue vastly different agendas on Capitol Hill. Democrats in the House vow to launch wide-ranging investigations into Trump, his business dealings and the transparency of his administration. Republicans in the Senate will continue to install more Trump nominees to the federal judiciary and defend the president and his policies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pelosi’s spokesman, Drew Hammill, \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/Drew_Hammill/status/1060031723096948736\">tweeted late Tuesday\u003c/a> about the phone call between the president and the House minority leader: “President Trump called Leader Pelosi at 11:45 p.m. this evening to extend his congratulations on winning a Democratic House Majority. He acknowledged the Leader’s call for bipartisanship in her victory remarks.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A divided Congress is likely to extend the heated battles of the 2018 campaign into the presidential election in 2020.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/11/06/650521908/election-night-2018-live?post=early-vote-signals-highest-turnout-in-a-74\">Early vote data released early Tuesday\u003c/a> indicated that the electorate was younger and more diverse than in the last midterm election. Turnout levels were significantly higher across several demographic groups, and up in states with competitive Senate contests — Arizona, Texas and Nevada.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The president’s impact played out differently in the roughly 80 competitive House races and more than a dozen close Senate contests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>House battlefield hinged on contests in suburban and exurban districts\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Democrats pinned their hopes for retaking the House on boosting turnout among women and minorities and wooing moderate suburban voters who were turned off by Trump.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They focused on recruiting diverse candidates that might have once seemed outside the box for the party. That included gun owners and military veterans — and a lot of female candidates. The strategy was well-tailored to turn out voters for House seats, and a record number of women will be sworn in early next year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the election also likely means Democrats will have to bridge the demands of a party that has grown to embrace progressives, like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who won in a safely Democratic district in New York, while electing moderates like Conor Lamb in Pennsylvania, who won a special election earlier this year and won Tuesday in a reconfigured district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Such a Democratic caucus will test the power and influence of leaders like Pelosi, who plans to seek another term as speaker of the House.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pelosi has been criticized by a vocal group inside the caucus as being out of touch with her changing party and unwilling to provide opportunities to newer members. She was the subject of millions of dollars in Republican attack ads this cycle, forcing more than a dozen candidates to publicly vow not to support her for speaker.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That divide could make it difficult for House Democrats to unify around an agenda. There will be pressure from her most progressive flank to vote on proposals like a “Medicare-for-all” health care plan. But Pelosi has promised to focus first on government and campaign finance reform measures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When we win, on the opening day, our Democratic Congress will be open and transparent,” Pelosi said at an event Tuesday morning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Republicans will have to battle an opposite trend. Many moderate members chose to retire rather than face tough re-election campaigns. With the bulk of the competitive races focused in suburban districts, GOP candidates and leadership aides worried the president’s tough rhetoric about immigration may have turned off women and independents in those areas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>House Speaker Paul Ryan appealed to the president the weekend before the election to focus on the strong economy and benefits from the 2017 tax cut. While Trump did boast about these accomplishments, he continued to emphasize his push to crack down on the “caravan” — the group of Central American migrants heading toward the Mexican border with the United States. He also declared he would \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/10/30/662043904/trump-says-he-will-void-birthright-citizenship-law-through-executive-order\">end birthright citizenship with an executive order\u003c/a> — a proposal Ryan said would be unconstitutional.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>House GOP leaders are expecting to oversee a more conservative conference next year, with many of their losses coming in seats held by centrists. That tilt to the right is likely to mean even more pressure by top leaders for members to stick together to vote on legislation that is closely aligned to Trump and his agenda.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Senate races in mostly red states benefited from Trump focus\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11704502\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/gettyimages-1050428988_custom-436c66f321dfc6de94984c8efb5ae95af30018d7-s1600-c85-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Republican Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky talks to reporters after the Senate voted to confirm Supreme Court nominee Judge Brett Kavanaugh on Oct. 6.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11704502\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/gettyimages-1050428988_custom-436c66f321dfc6de94984c8efb5ae95af30018d7-s1600-c85-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/gettyimages-1050428988_custom-436c66f321dfc6de94984c8efb5ae95af30018d7-s1600-c85-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/gettyimages-1050428988_custom-436c66f321dfc6de94984c8efb5ae95af30018d7-s1600-c85-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/gettyimages-1050428988_custom-436c66f321dfc6de94984c8efb5ae95af30018d7-s1600-c85-1200x799.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/gettyimages-1050428988_custom-436c66f321dfc6de94984c8efb5ae95af30018d7-s1600-c85.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Republican Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky talks to reporters after the Senate voted to confirm Supreme Court nominee Judge Brett Kavanaugh on Oct. 6. \u003ccite>(Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Senate Democrats had faced a steep challenge as they fought to keep seats in states Trump won by double-digit margins in the worst battlefield for any party in modern history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just six Republicans were up for re-election; all but one of them ran in safely Republican states.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Democrats landed on a plan to allow each vulnerable Democrat to run an independent campaign without a unified platform. For example, Heidi Heitkamp in North Dakota could stump on protecting farmers while Joe Manchin in West Virginia promised new health protections for coal miners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Republicans had the advantage of simply reminding their base of all of the times Democrats voted against Trump. Heitkamp reached out to Trump White House officials and attempted to craft a bipartisan posture, but she voted against Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination to the Supreme Court. And other red state Senate Democrats running for re-election — Claire McCaskill in Missouri and Joe Donnelly in Indiana — did the same.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump personally played a significant role in tight Senate contests in the closing weeks of the election cycle. He traveled to Indiana, Florida, Montana, Nevada, Missouri and Mississippi — and in some cases landed in dramatic fashion aboard Air Force One to crowds of supporters enthusiastically cheering his red-meat speeches focused mostly on immigration and warnings about what Democratic control meant for his agenda.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His visits included overt reminders to his base supporters that they weren’t just voting for any Republican on the ballot — they were voting for senators promising to back his priorities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They want to raise your taxes, the Democrats do, restore crippling regulations, shut down your new steel mills, take away your health care, and put illegal aliens before American citizens,” Trump said in a closing rally in Indiana on Monday. “If you want more caravans, if you want more crime, vote Democrat tomorrow.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A year of big money and big controversy\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Democrats benefited from a flood of donations to official party organizations and outside groups working on their side. Democratic candidates and their outside supporters are expected to spend more than $2.5 billion on this year’s election, according to the Center for Responsive Politics. Republican candidates and their backers are on track to spend $2.2 billion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fundraising in 2018 far outpaced what is normal for a miderm election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both parties saw dramatic surges in donations that were closely correlated with national political events like the hearings on sexual assault allegations during the confirmation of Kavanaugh. Donors responded to heated political battles, like funding a wall on the border with Mexico and Republicans’ failed attempts to repeal the Affordable Care Act, by flooding candidates with cash. \u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2018 NPR. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Updated at 3:44 a.m. ET Wednesday\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Republicans and Democrats will split control of Congress next year. House Democrats are projected to pick up enough GOP-held seats to take the majority in the House, according to The Associated Press. Senate Republicans are projected to maintain and perhaps expand their majority. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The results create a divided Capitol Hill next year and mean President Trump’s plans for new tax cuts, tougher immigration legislation and changes to the Affordable Care Act will be blocked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi declared victory late Tuesday night and Trump called her to congratulate her on the win.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have all had enough of division. The American people want peace; they want results; they want us to work for positive results for their lives,” Pelosi said at an election night celebration with top House Democratic leaders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And after Trump’s concentrated focus on rallying in the final weeks of the campaign, Senate Democrats in several red states suffered projected losses. The GOP is poised to enlarge its majority by at least two seats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Republicans will maintain control of the Senate for at least two more years, after Democratic losses in Indiana, Tennessee, Texas, North Dakota — states that Trump won by double digits in 2016. The president campaigned aggressively in those states.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Senate GOP leaders capitalized on a battleground map that left Democrats defending 26 seats, including 10 in states Trump won in 2016. Now they must defend Trump’s hard-line rhetoric and policy on issues like immigration and trade, despite tensions within the party over those same issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump was not on the ballot this year, but the midterm election was viewed as a nationwide referendum on his leadership. Now, leaders from both parties will pursue vastly different agendas on Capitol Hill. Democrats in the House vow to launch wide-ranging investigations into Trump, his business dealings and the transparency of his administration. Republicans in the Senate will continue to install more Trump nominees to the federal judiciary and defend the president and his policies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pelosi’s spokesman, Drew Hammill, \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/Drew_Hammill/status/1060031723096948736\">tweeted late Tuesday\u003c/a> about the phone call between the president and the House minority leader: “President Trump called Leader Pelosi at 11:45 p.m. this evening to extend his congratulations on winning a Democratic House Majority. He acknowledged the Leader’s call for bipartisanship in her victory remarks.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A divided Congress is likely to extend the heated battles of the 2018 campaign into the presidential election in 2020.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/11/06/650521908/election-night-2018-live?post=early-vote-signals-highest-turnout-in-a-74\">Early vote data released early Tuesday\u003c/a> indicated that the electorate was younger and more diverse than in the last midterm election. Turnout levels were significantly higher across several demographic groups, and up in states with competitive Senate contests — Arizona, Texas and Nevada.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The president’s impact played out differently in the roughly 80 competitive House races and more than a dozen close Senate contests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>House battlefield hinged on contests in suburban and exurban districts\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Democrats pinned their hopes for retaking the House on boosting turnout among women and minorities and wooing moderate suburban voters who were turned off by Trump.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They focused on recruiting diverse candidates that might have once seemed outside the box for the party. That included gun owners and military veterans — and a lot of female candidates. The strategy was well-tailored to turn out voters for House seats, and a record number of women will be sworn in early next year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the election also likely means Democrats will have to bridge the demands of a party that has grown to embrace progressives, like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who won in a safely Democratic district in New York, while electing moderates like Conor Lamb in Pennsylvania, who won a special election earlier this year and won Tuesday in a reconfigured district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Such a Democratic caucus will test the power and influence of leaders like Pelosi, who plans to seek another term as speaker of the House.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pelosi has been criticized by a vocal group inside the caucus as being out of touch with her changing party and unwilling to provide opportunities to newer members. She was the subject of millions of dollars in Republican attack ads this cycle, forcing more than a dozen candidates to publicly vow not to support her for speaker.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That divide could make it difficult for House Democrats to unify around an agenda. There will be pressure from her most progressive flank to vote on proposals like a “Medicare-for-all” health care plan. But Pelosi has promised to focus first on government and campaign finance reform measures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When we win, on the opening day, our Democratic Congress will be open and transparent,” Pelosi said at an event Tuesday morning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Republicans will have to battle an opposite trend. Many moderate members chose to retire rather than face tough re-election campaigns. With the bulk of the competitive races focused in suburban districts, GOP candidates and leadership aides worried the president’s tough rhetoric about immigration may have turned off women and independents in those areas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>House Speaker Paul Ryan appealed to the president the weekend before the election to focus on the strong economy and benefits from the 2017 tax cut. While Trump did boast about these accomplishments, he continued to emphasize his push to crack down on the “caravan” — the group of Central American migrants heading toward the Mexican border with the United States. He also declared he would \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/10/30/662043904/trump-says-he-will-void-birthright-citizenship-law-through-executive-order\">end birthright citizenship with an executive order\u003c/a> — a proposal Ryan said would be unconstitutional.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>House GOP leaders are expecting to oversee a more conservative conference next year, with many of their losses coming in seats held by centrists. That tilt to the right is likely to mean even more pressure by top leaders for members to stick together to vote on legislation that is closely aligned to Trump and his agenda.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Senate races in mostly red states benefited from Trump focus\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11704502\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/gettyimages-1050428988_custom-436c66f321dfc6de94984c8efb5ae95af30018d7-s1600-c85-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Republican Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky talks to reporters after the Senate voted to confirm Supreme Court nominee Judge Brett Kavanaugh on Oct. 6.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11704502\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/gettyimages-1050428988_custom-436c66f321dfc6de94984c8efb5ae95af30018d7-s1600-c85-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/gettyimages-1050428988_custom-436c66f321dfc6de94984c8efb5ae95af30018d7-s1600-c85-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/gettyimages-1050428988_custom-436c66f321dfc6de94984c8efb5ae95af30018d7-s1600-c85-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/gettyimages-1050428988_custom-436c66f321dfc6de94984c8efb5ae95af30018d7-s1600-c85-1200x799.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/gettyimages-1050428988_custom-436c66f321dfc6de94984c8efb5ae95af30018d7-s1600-c85.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Republican Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky talks to reporters after the Senate voted to confirm Supreme Court nominee Judge Brett Kavanaugh on Oct. 6. \u003ccite>(Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Senate Democrats had faced a steep challenge as they fought to keep seats in states Trump won by double-digit margins in the worst battlefield for any party in modern history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just six Republicans were up for re-election; all but one of them ran in safely Republican states.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Democrats landed on a plan to allow each vulnerable Democrat to run an independent campaign without a unified platform. For example, Heidi Heitkamp in North Dakota could stump on protecting farmers while Joe Manchin in West Virginia promised new health protections for coal miners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Republicans had the advantage of simply reminding their base of all of the times Democrats voted against Trump. Heitkamp reached out to Trump White House officials and attempted to craft a bipartisan posture, but she voted against Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination to the Supreme Court. And other red state Senate Democrats running for re-election — Claire McCaskill in Missouri and Joe Donnelly in Indiana — did the same.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump personally played a significant role in tight Senate contests in the closing weeks of the election cycle. 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That method was successful for getting him to the general election, but Jackson said it also allowed Newsom to go after more moderate voters in November.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He’s not talking a lot about issues like single-payer health care,” Jackson said. “He’s talking more about California values and the California Dream and things that will perhaps appeal more to those independents that are becoming more and more the target audience for politicians running in California.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The general election was so low-key that UC San Diego political science professor Thad Kousser called it a “stealth race.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s hard for any Republican to win in California, but certainly one who embraced Donald Trump and many of his positions in the primary,” Kousser said. “That set up these long odds for John Cox and freed Gavin Newsom to really concentrate on down-ballot races up and down the state, rather than running hard for governor.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But while the election was largely seen as an easy win for Newsom, some say voters lost in the campaign.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11697467\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11697467\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/JohnCoxDebate-800x528.jpg\" alt=\"Republican gubernatorial candidate John Cox speaks in KQED's San Francisco studios on Oct. 8, 2018.\" width=\"800\" height=\"528\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/JohnCoxDebate-800x528.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/JohnCoxDebate-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/JohnCoxDebate-1020x674.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/JohnCoxDebate-1200x793.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/JohnCoxDebate.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/JohnCoxDebate-1180x779.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/JohnCoxDebate-960x634.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/JohnCoxDebate-240x159.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/JohnCoxDebate-375x248.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/JohnCoxDebate-520x343.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Republican gubernatorial candidate John Cox speaks in KQED’s San Francisco studios on Oct. 8, 2018. \u003ccite>(Jeff Chiu/AP/Pool)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A general election race between Newsom and former Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa would have been more exciting and substantive, said Fernando Guerra, political science professor at Loyola Marymount University.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Number one, they would have had to have had actual debates. There’s no way that Newsom would have been able to avoid that,” Guerra said. “The amount of money that would have poured into both sides would have been tremendous. And then we would have had a real debate about the future of this Democratic progressive regime that exists in California.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom is expected to take on progressive causes while in office — issues like universal preschool and Medicare-for-all. And he’ll have help from the Democratic-controlled Legislature. But the one-party rule could inflame tensions between the liberal and more moderate wings of the party.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And there’s also the threat of a looming economic downturn.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Right now our economy is strong,” Melinda Jackson said. “Things are good. We’ve got plenty of money to try some of these new things. But I don’t think anybody predicts that that’s going to last forever.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom will be sworn into office on Jan. 7.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>On this Election Day, voters across California are heading to the polls to decide \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/elections/props\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">11 statewide propositions\u003c/a>, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/governor-2018\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">governor’s\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/senate-2018/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">U.S. Senate\u003c/a> races, numerous \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/house-2018/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">highly contested House races\u003c/a> and a slew of local races and measures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Voter registration in California was at an \u003ca href=\"https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/414676-voter-registration-in-california-reaches-all-time-high-before-midterms\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">all-time high\u003c/a> leading into today’s midterm elections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11703631/12-things-you-need-to-know-before-going-to-the-polls\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Here are 12 things to know as you head to the polls\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So far, Bay Area counties are reporting significantly high voter registration and turnout numbers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>San Mateo County\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n“We hit a new milestone on Friday,” said Jim Irizarry, San Mateo County’s chief elections officer. “For the first time in San Mateo County’s history, we hit 400,000 registered voters … so there’s a lot of voter engagement.” There are 503,000 eligible voters in the county.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For comparison, Irizarry says the Obama (’12) and Trump (’16) elections had 385-390,000 registered voters. “Those were extremely large presidential elections. So for a midterm election, this is impressive. This is very high.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/rachaelmyrow/status/1059839596744314880\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A tip sent to \u003ca href=\"https://www.propublica.org/electionland/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ProPublica’s Electionland project\u003c/a>, which is monitoring voting access across the nation in real-time, reported that voting machines were down in San Mateo City Hall at around 8:30 a.m.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In response, Irizarry acknowledged a 10-minute delay at the City Hall location when they needed to restart the internet connection. During that time, he said, people could still vote via paper ballot. But they could not register or confirm their registration during that time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Contra Costa County\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nIn Contra Costa County, over 100 people voted at one polling station before 8:00 a.m. Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For a midterm election, that’s pretty unusual. That’s an indicator that the turnout is going to be pretty consistent and busy all day long,” said Scott Konopasek, assistant county registrar. “We’re looking at an overall turnout probably approaching 70 percent, which would be kind of a record for a midterm election … We’re seeing patterns reminiscent of November 2016.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/SlowMoneyGreen/status/1059884875321208832\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Antioch, younger voters were energized outside of a polling place Tuesday morning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need to get young people in office,” said Will Acuavera, a 30-year-old first-time voter. “People like Dianne Feinstein. She’s done great things for California, but her views don’t match mine. So I want to get in to vote her out and get people in who are going to be more likely to battle Trump. I used to be very anti-voting until Donald Trump got into office, and seeing how racist things have gotten nationwide, I just couldn’t complain and not vote.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I came out to vote today just because it’s our civic duty and we should vote,” said Andrew Murphy, 29, of Antioch. “I feel like every young person, old person, everyone should go out and vote … We all have the power to change what is going on in the world. We just have to go out and vote and make that change.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Napa County\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n“We’re well ahead of the June 2018 election, which was our first election as a\u003ca href=\"https://www.sos.ca.gov/elections/voters-choice-act/about-vca/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Voter’s Choice Act county\u003c/a>,” said John Tuteur, registrar of voters. “We’re hoping to break into the 60 percent range for total voter turnout for this election.” For comparison, in November 2014, the county’s turnout was 55 percent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Statewide\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nSome voters in Los Angeles County are waiting up to two hours to cast their ballots.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spokesman with the Los Angeles County Registrar says the line at its headquarters in Norwalk is wrapping around the building.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Registrar spokesman Mike Sanchez couldn’t immediately confirm online posts by a Los Angeles Times reporter that some people were giving up and getting out of line, while others were being handed tickets so they could use the bathroom or get food without losing their place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/brittny_mejia/status/1059901123782275072\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The site is the only one in the vast county that allows voters to register and cast a ballot on Election Day, a fact that some complained about on social media.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sanchez says he understands the frustration, and that same-day registration and voting is being expanded throughout the county and will be ready in March 2020.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Across the state — at least, judging by their \u003ca href=\"https://trends.google.com/trends/story/US_cu_6YymNGUBAAAqOM_en\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Google search activity over the last week\u003c/a> — voters have immigration and health care on their minds as they head to the polls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003cscript type=\"text/javascript\" src=\"https://ssl.gstatic.com/trends_nrtr/1605_RC01/embed_loader.js\">\u003c/script>\u003cbr>\n \u003cscript type=\"text/javascript\">\n trends.embed.renderWidget(\"US_cu_6YymNGUBAAAqOM_en\", \"svg_map_33d37acd-dbae-47d9-acda-d3afc7265782\", {\"guestPath\":\"https://trends.google.com:443/trends/embed/\"});\n \u003c/script>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED reporter \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/JohnLGC\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">John Sepulvado\u003c/a> has been monitoring polling locations in Southern California, where some locations are seeing much longer lines than others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/JohnLGC/status/1059926470485835776\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/JohnLGC/status/1059919261487968256\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/JohnLGC/status/1059824477024935936\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/JohnLGC/status/1059863405341724672\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/JohnLGC/status/1059881498617114625\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/sarahfavot/status/1059854803688292352\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/priskaneely/status/1059857499170304000\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nationwide, \u003ca href=\"https://apps.npr.org/liveblogs/20181106-elections/sharecard/early-vote-signals-highest-turnout-in-a-74.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">early voting records were shattered\u003c/a> with 38 million people voting early, according to the \u003ca href=\"http://www.electproject.org/early_2018\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">U.S. Elections Project\u003c/a> at the University of Florida, which tracks turnout. If early voting makes up a third of all the vote, that would amount to a turnout of 114 million people, or 48.5 percent. If those numbers hold, it would mark the highest midterm turnout rate since 1914.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>ProPublica’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.propublica.org/electionland/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Electionland project\u003c/a> is monitoring voting access in real-time, including a Google Trends election map:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"’800′\" height=\"’700′\" src=\"%E2%80%99https://electionlandtrends.appspot.com/ElectionDay2018?initialWidth=439&childId=election-trends-map&parentTitle=Electionland%20%E2%80%94%20ProPublica&parentUrl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.propublica.org%2Felectionland%2F%E2%80%99\" frameborder=\"’0′\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s Monica Samayoa, Marissa Shieh and Angela Corral contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This post has been updated. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This post includes reporting from NPR and The Associated Press.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>We are working with \u003ca href=\"https://www.propublica.org/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ProPublica’s election land project\u003c/a> to help identify problems at polling places. If you have any, here’s how to to report them:\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>SMS: Send the word VOTE, VOTA (for Spanish) or 投票 (for Chinese) to 81380 (standard text message rates apply)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>WhatsApp: Send the word VOTE, VOTA (for Spanish) or 投票 (for Chinese) to 1-850-909-8683\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Facebook Messenger: Go to m.me/electionland\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Got some last-minute questions before heading to the polls on Tuesday? Here are some of the key 411s you need to know before you go to vote:\u003c/p>\n\u003col>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Where do I vote?\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nYou can look up your polling place \u003ca href=\"http://votersedge.kqed.org\">here\u003c/a>.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>I still have questions about what propositions and races I am voting on?\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nNo worries: Check out our \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/elections/prop/1\">state proposition guide\u003c/a> or go to our \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/elections\">election 2018 page\u003c/a> for full coverage on Bay Area propositions and races.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>When do I vote?\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nPolls open at 7 a.m. and close at 8 p.m. It’s the law that you’re \u003ca href=\"https://www.sos.ca.gov/elections/voting-resources/voting-california/help-strengthen-our-democracy/poll-worker-info/poll-worker-training-standards/section-two/\">allowed to vote\u003c/a> if you’re in line at 8 p.m.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>How long will it take to vote? \u003c/strong>California law gives people two hours of time off to vote if they don’t have enough time during non-work hours (the average amount of time Californians waited in line to vote was nearly seven minutes in 2016, according to the \u003ca href=\"https://elections.mit.edu/#state-CA\">MIT Election Data Science Lab).\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>What if I forgot to mail my vote-by-mail ballot?\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nYour ballot must be postmarked on or before Nov. 6. You can also drop it off at a polling place in your county or your county elections office on Election Day anytime before polls close.\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11703737\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11703737\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/ballotdropoff-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/ballotdropoff-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/ballotdropoff-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/ballotdropoff-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/ballotdropoff-qut-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/ballotdropoff-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/ballotdropoff-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/ballotdropoff-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/ballotdropoff-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/ballotdropoff-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/ballotdropoff-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A man checks in for early voting in the mid-term elections at a polling station in a public library in the Lake View Terrace neighborhood of Los Angeles, California on Nov. 4, 2018. \u003ccite>(Robyn Beck/AFP/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>OK, well … what if I lost my vote-by-mail ballot?\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nNo sweat. You can fill out a provisional ballot at your polling station. Your ballot will be counted once election officials confirm you are a registered voter and haven’t already voted.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>What do I need to bring? \u003c/strong>Generally, you don’t need to show your ID when voting. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>We are working with \u003ca href=\"https://www.propublica.org/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ProPublica’s election land project\u003c/a> to help identify problems at polling places. If you have any, here’s how to to report them:\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>SMS: Send the word VOTE, VOTA (for Spanish) or 投票 (for Chinese) to 81380 (standard text message rates apply)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>WhatsApp: Send the word VOTE, VOTA (for Spanish) or 投票 (for Chinese) to 1-850-909-8683\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Facebook Messenger: Go to m.me/electionland\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Got some last-minute questions before heading to the polls on Tuesday? Here are some of the key 411s you need to know before you go to vote:\u003c/p>\n\u003col>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Where do I vote?\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nYou can look up your polling place \u003ca href=\"http://votersedge.kqed.org\">here\u003c/a>.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>I still have questions about what propositions and races I am voting on?\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nNo worries: Check out our \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/elections/prop/1\">state proposition guide\u003c/a> or go to our \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/elections\">election 2018 page\u003c/a> for full coverage on Bay Area propositions and races.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>When do I vote?\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nPolls open at 7 a.m. and close at 8 p.m. It’s the law that you’re \u003ca href=\"https://www.sos.ca.gov/elections/voting-resources/voting-california/help-strengthen-our-democracy/poll-worker-info/poll-worker-training-standards/section-two/\">allowed to vote\u003c/a> if you’re in line at 8 p.m.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>How long will it take to vote? \u003c/strong>California law gives people two hours of time off to vote if they don’t have enough time during non-work hours (the average amount of time Californians waited in line to vote was nearly seven minutes in 2016, according to the \u003ca href=\"https://elections.mit.edu/#state-CA\">MIT Election Data Science Lab).\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>What if I forgot to mail my vote-by-mail ballot?\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nYour ballot must be postmarked on or before Nov. 6. 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You can fill out a provisional ballot at your polling station. Your ballot will be counted once election officials confirm you are a registered voter and haven’t already voted.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>What do I need to bring? \u003c/strong>Generally, you don’t need to show your ID when voting. 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"content": "\u003cp>The California Democratic Party no longer accepts donations from the \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/politics/essential/la-pol-ca-essential-politics-updates-california-democratic-party-shuns-1479609915-htmlstory.html\">oil industry\u003c/a>, viewing that as politically unsavory for a party pushing to curb climate change. But that hasn’t stopped oil companies from spending millions to help California Democrats win on Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead of giving money to the party, oil companies are donating directly to Democratic candidates and pouring huge sums into outside groups that campaign for a mix of Democrats and Republicans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The petroleum industry has put $19.2 million into California politics in the 2017-18 election cycle, according to a CALmatters analysis of campaign finance data. Much of it is helping Republicans, including $2 million to the California Republican Party and a portion of the roughly $14 million the industry has put into independent committees supporting some politicians from both parties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the oil money helping California Democrats is significant. It includes:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>More than $853,000 in direct contributions to 47 Democrats running for Assembly and Senate—including powerful leaders of both houses of the Legislature—and to the campaigns of Democratic Attorney General Xavier Becerra and to Democratic candidate for lieutenant governor, state Sen. Ed Hernandez.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>More than $2.8 million on an independent campaign to help Democrat Susan Rubio win a Los Angeles-area state Senate seat\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>More than $343,000 on an independent campaign supporting the re-election of Democratic Assemblyman Rudy Salas of Bakersfield\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Nearly $160,000 to a committee that campaigns for business-friendly Democrats\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Shaping the Type of Democrats\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>In addition, oil companies and other business interests are pooling funds on campaigns supporting other Democrats running for the Legislature: Tasha Boerner-Horvath of Encinitas, Sabrina Cervantes of Riverside, James Ramos of San Bernardino, Bob Archuleta of Pico Rivera, Vanessa Delgado of Montebello, Freddie Rodriguez of Pomona and Sydney Kamlager of Los Angeles.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">“Getting the party not to take the money is a step, but the end goal here is to remove their influence in Democratic politics.”\u003ccite>R.L. Miller, the California Democratic party’s environmental caucus chair\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>It’s all part of a broader push by business interests in recent years to shape the type of Democrats who hold power in the state Capitol. As the Republican Party has \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/articles/elephant-hunt-california-republicans-diminishing-species/\">diminished\u003c/a> in California and progressive activists nudge the Democratic Party leftward, big business has helped foster a cadre of more conservative Democrats in the\u003cbr>\nLegislature. This “mod squad” amounts to a bloc that can kill or water-down environmental legislation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t have to make that argument anymore. It’s patently clear,” he said. “Now it’s a question of who is a mod and how much can (business) help?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For years I would have to convince the business community every election cycle that a moderate Democrat is good for them. Not as great as a Republican who would do everything they tell them to, but better than a liberal Democrat,” said David Townsend, a political consultant who runs a \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/articles/rise-of-the-business-democrat/\">business-backed\u003c/a> political action committee that works to elect Democrats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chevron, Valero and Phillips 66 are among the businesses working to elect Democrats through Townsend’s PAC and others like it. The companies are members of the Western States Petroleum Association, which doesn’t give political donations but lobbies in Sacramento.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re focused on bringing the conversation around energy back to the middle and away from the polarized extremes,” said Catherine Reheis-Boyd, president of the petroleum association, in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Environmentalists Speak Out\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>But many environmentalists see this kind of centrism as anathema to Democratic party principles. The California Democratic Party’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.cadem.org/our-california/platform/2018-platform-energy-and-environment\">platform\u003c/a> calls for a moratorium on fracking and a new tax on fossil fuel extraction—ideas that have failed in the Democratic-controlled Legislature.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our fear is that if oil companies are pouring money into candidates even before they’re elected, if they are elected, what will be their moral compass when there are issues with the refineries or natural gas power plants?” asked Diana Vazquez, a policy manager with the California Environmental Justice Alliance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The group \u003ca href=\"https://caleja.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/CEJA_scorecard_2018_final2.pdf\">ranks legislators\u003c/a> every year on their environmental records. One of the low-scoring Democrats this year is Rudy Salas, the Bakersfield assemblyman benefitting from big spending by the oil industry, a major employer in his oil-rich region.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The environmental group gave an even lower score to Assemblywoman Blanca Rubio — the sister of Susan Rubio, who is running for state Senate with more than $2.8 million in support from petroleum. Environmentalists are supporting her Democratic opponent, Mike Eng.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rubio’s spokesman touted her work on parks funding and other environmental issues as a Baldwin Park council member, and said her sister’s track record doesn’t indicate how she’ll vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon said that despite campaign support from Big Oil, Democrats have passed environmental measures that oil companies opposed — including legislation to curb offshore drilling and expand renewable energy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Does it influence individual members? I’m not sure,” Rendon said. “But as a body, I think we have a good record of standing up to oil.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/articles/big-oil-pulls-california-democratic-lawmakers-through-the-revolving-door/\">Big Oil’s influence\u003c/a> in the state Capitol is why the chair of the California Democratic Party’s environmental caucus pushed the party to \u003ca href=\"https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/11/22/1602341/-The-California-Democratic-Party-just-banned-Big-Oil-contributions-Who-s-next\">ban\u003c/a> oil company money at the end of 2016. The Democratic National Committee followed suit earlier this year but, facing blowback from labor unions that rely on oil industry jobs, quickly \u003ca href=\"http://time.com/5365422/democratic-party-fossil-fuel-contributions-labor/\">reversed course\u003c/a> and overturned the ban.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>R.L. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Shaping the Type of Democrats\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>In addition, oil companies and other business interests are pooling funds on campaigns supporting other Democrats running for the Legislature: Tasha Boerner-Horvath of Encinitas, Sabrina Cervantes of Riverside, James Ramos of San Bernardino, Bob Archuleta of Pico Rivera, Vanessa Delgado of Montebello, Freddie Rodriguez of Pomona and Sydney Kamlager of Los Angeles.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">“Getting the party not to take the money is a step, but the end goal here is to remove their influence in Democratic politics.”\u003ccite>R.L. Miller, the California Democratic party’s environmental caucus chair\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>It’s all part of a broader push by business interests in recent years to shape the type of Democrats who hold power in the state Capitol. As the Republican Party has \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/articles/elephant-hunt-california-republicans-diminishing-species/\">diminished\u003c/a> in California and progressive activists nudge the Democratic Party leftward, big business has helped foster a cadre of more conservative Democrats in the\u003cbr>\nLegislature. This “mod squad” amounts to a bloc that can kill or water-down environmental legislation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t have to make that argument anymore. It’s patently clear,” he said. “Now it’s a question of who is a mod and how much can (business) help?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For years I would have to convince the business community every election cycle that a moderate Democrat is good for them. Not as great as a Republican who would do everything they tell them to, but better than a liberal Democrat,” said David Townsend, a political consultant who runs a \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/articles/rise-of-the-business-democrat/\">business-backed\u003c/a> political action committee that works to elect Democrats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chevron, Valero and Phillips 66 are among the businesses working to elect Democrats through Townsend’s PAC and others like it. The companies are members of the Western States Petroleum Association, which doesn’t give political donations but lobbies in Sacramento.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re focused on bringing the conversation around energy back to the middle and away from the polarized extremes,” said Catherine Reheis-Boyd, president of the petroleum association, in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Environmentalists Speak Out\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>But many environmentalists see this kind of centrism as anathema to Democratic party principles. The California Democratic Party’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.cadem.org/our-california/platform/2018-platform-energy-and-environment\">platform\u003c/a> calls for a moratorium on fracking and a new tax on fossil fuel extraction—ideas that have failed in the Democratic-controlled Legislature.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our fear is that if oil companies are pouring money into candidates even before they’re elected, if they are elected, what will be their moral compass when there are issues with the refineries or natural gas power plants?” asked Diana Vazquez, a policy manager with the California Environmental Justice Alliance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The group \u003ca href=\"https://caleja.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/CEJA_scorecard_2018_final2.pdf\">ranks legislators\u003c/a> every year on their environmental records. One of the low-scoring Democrats this year is Rudy Salas, the Bakersfield assemblyman benefitting from big spending by the oil industry, a major employer in his oil-rich region.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The environmental group gave an even lower score to Assemblywoman Blanca Rubio — the sister of Susan Rubio, who is running for state Senate with more than $2.8 million in support from petroleum. Environmentalists are supporting her Democratic opponent, Mike Eng.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rubio’s spokesman touted her work on parks funding and other environmental issues as a Baldwin Park council member, and said her sister’s track record doesn’t indicate how she’ll vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon said that despite campaign support from Big Oil, Democrats have passed environmental measures that oil companies opposed — including legislation to curb offshore drilling and expand renewable energy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Does it influence individual members? I’m not sure,” Rendon said. “But as a body, I think we have a good record of standing up to oil.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/articles/big-oil-pulls-california-democratic-lawmakers-through-the-revolving-door/\">Big Oil’s influence\u003c/a> in the state Capitol is why the chair of the California Democratic Party’s environmental caucus pushed the party to \u003ca href=\"https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/11/22/1602341/-The-California-Democratic-Party-just-banned-Big-Oil-contributions-Who-s-next\">ban\u003c/a> oil company money at the end of 2016. The Democratic National Committee followed suit earlier this year but, facing blowback from labor unions that rely on oil industry jobs, quickly \u003ca href=\"http://time.com/5365422/democratic-party-fossil-fuel-contributions-labor/\">reversed course\u003c/a> and overturned the ban.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>R.L. Miller, the party’s state environmental caucus chair, said she’s not surprised the petroleum industry has found other channels for spending on California Democrats this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve always known that it would be a long road,” she said. “Getting the party not to take the money is a step, but the end goal here is to remove their influence in Democratic politics.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>[dropcap]A[/dropcap] small shrine with fresh marigolds and votive candles marks the spot where immigrants Marcelina and Santos Garcia \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11659380/after-immigrant-couple-dies-fleeing-ice-farmworkers-describe-new-community-fears\">were killed on March 13.\u003c/a> The couple, of Mixtec Indian origin, had emigrated to California’s Central Valley from a rural region in Mexico where family values are strong.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like so many other immigrants, they built a life in Delano, a city of 53,000 that’s about 140 miles north of Los Angeles. There, they worked in the world’s most productive farm industry, in its vast sea of grape vines, fruit trees and multi-seasonal crops.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But early that March morning, as the Garcias drove through town, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents closed in on their SUV.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Attempting to evade agents, the undocumented couple sped down a country road. The vehicle went out of control and crashed into a pole and rolled over, killing the Garcias, who never knew that ICE was looking for Santos’ brother, not for them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11703752\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11703752\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/trump2-800x476.jpg\" alt=\"Mourning family bid goodbye to the immigrant couple who died fleeing ICE agents.\" width=\"800\" height=\"476\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/trump2-800x476.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/trump2-160x95.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/trump2.jpg 940w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mourning family bid goodbye to the immigrant couple who died fleeing ICE agents. \u003ccite>(The Bakersfield Californian)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Garcias’ deaths left their six children, who are not all U.S. citizens, orphaned. And in Delano — where in 1965 the United Farm Workers first carved their place in history — anger and fear about what happened has added urgency and upped the stakes for the midterm election occurring tomorrow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This has been huge wake-up call for the Latino community,” said Yazmin Hernandez, 22, a graduate of Fresno State University who helps legal permanent-resident immigrants in Delano apply for citizenship. “As a child of farmworkers,” she said, “I really want to vote.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But do others agree? Hernandez and a lot of young Latinos like her — many motivated, some less so — could be pivotal to what happens in this grape-growing region with a disappointing history of voter turnout. That history explains why get-out-the-vote campaigns hoping to energize thousands of voters have been sweeping through California’s Central Valley in recent weeks, as labor groups and immigrant rights activists aim to send a message to President Donald J. Trump.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the eye of the storm: the district’s congressman, U.S. Rep. David Valadao, a Republican who has defied the odds by being elected three times in a district where Democrats hold a registration advantage and Hillary Clinton was victorious just two years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Youth Get Involved\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>There’s no escaping Delano’s dramatic past. Not far from the roadside shrine commemorating the Garcias, the United Farm Workers’ original adobe headquarters, “Forty Acres,” is now a national historic landmark — something few would have imagined in the late 1960s here in Kern County. A bronze plaque and other markers explain Delano’s place in a chapter of American history that still rankles some conservatives and divides people here even today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It took a five-year strike and a national boycott campaign for the UFW to obtain its first union contract in 1970 benefiting Mexican-American and Mexican and Filipino immigrant grape laborers. As door-to-door voter turnout campaigns tick up to Election Day, Forty Acres is a reminder that change can take root slowly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11703753\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11703753\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/trump3-800x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/trump3-800x300.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/trump3-160x60.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/trump3-1020x382.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/trump3-1200x450.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/trump3-1180x442.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/trump3-960x360.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/trump3-240x90.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/trump3-375x140.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/trump3-520x195.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/trump3.jpg 1260w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Delano is home to Forty Acres, now a national historic landmark. It’s where Cesar Chavez and farmworkers established a headquarters in the late 1960s to fight for farm labor and civil rights. Chavez fasted in a room at Forty Acres, pictured at left, to demand rights for agricultural workers. (Susan Ferriss / Center for Public Integrity).\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For frustrated Democrats, this is a crucial beachhead. Out of the 53 seats allotted to California in the House of Representatives, only 14 districts are held by Republicans in a state that’s been gradually turning deep blue for years now. Delano, 77 percent Latino, sits in one of the GOP pockets: the sprawling 21st Congressional District. The Almanac of American Politics says Valadao has won here against Democratic candidates “who have consistently under-performed initial expectations.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stretching more than 150 miles northwest to southeast, the Valley district includes parts of Fresno, Kings, Tulare and Kern counties and a piece of the city of Bakersfield. The district is also home to a smattering of small cities, Naval Air Station Lemoore, a major fighter base, and mile after mile of crops and dairy farms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Interest in midterm elections is usually tepid compared to presidential races. But it’s the age of Trump, and California is a state where Latinos, mostly Mexican-American, are now the single largest demographic.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">“As a child of farmworkers, I really want to vote.” \u003ccite>Yazmin Hernandez, 22 \u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Against this backdrop, Democrats hope that more door-to-door contact with “low-propensity” voters and “ticket splitters” will channel that anti-Trump sentiment into victories in at least a few GOP-held districts. If that happens, GOP California could shrink more and contribute to “flipping” the Republican-held U.S. House of Representatives to Democrats. But Valadao has not been alone in bucking the tide; neighboring conservative districts are held by House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy and\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11702053/the-nations-most-expensive-congressional-race-is-in-the-central-valley\"> rising conservative star Devin Nunes.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Democrats would dearly love to do better here. But even enthusiasts don’t expect turnout miracles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Statewide, Latinos are only 21 percent of those most likely to vote in elections generally, even though 34 percent of those eligible to vote in California are Latino, according to the Public Policy Institute of California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But young people, especially, who are scared for their peers’ or their own undocumented parents, say there’s no choice but to hit the streets and persuade those eligible to cast ballots.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We share a history as the children of immigrant parents. We don’t know if the next ICE pursuit will be for one our families,” said Bryan Osorio, 22, who grew up in Delano. He explained the personal stakes for so many here during a meeting at Delano’s sole Starbucks. The coffee shop wasn’t far from where workers, swaddled in scarfs to fend off dust, were gleaning the last of this area’s gargantuan crop of table grapes to ship back East.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11703756\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11703756\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/trump4-800x534.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/trump4-800x534.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/trump4-160x107.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/trump4-240x160.jpeg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/trump4-375x250.jpeg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/trump4-520x347.jpeg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/trump4.jpeg 940w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bryan Osorio, 22, of Delano, talks to an 80-year-old Delano voter. Osorio is a University of California, Berkeley, graduate running for Delano City Council to address drinking water problems and defend immigrant families. (Susan Ferriss / Center for Public Integrity).\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>After the Garcias died, Delano police examined video and found that ICE agents had pursued the couple with lights flashing, contrary to what ICE agents told officers investigating circumstances of the chase. Police recommended Kern County prosecutors charge ICE agents for providing false information, but prosecutors disagreed that evidence supported that charge. Osorio and fellow students who were home on spring break marched with Delano high school students denouncing Trump’s aggressive deployment of ICE.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Osorio’s immigrant parents aren’t citizens and can’t vote, he said. But he can.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Going back years, Republican politicians and agribusiness companies in California have acknowledged that they depend on immigrant workers, many of whom likely don’t have authentic work documents. As producers of more than half the fruits, vegetables and nuts in the country — and as the biggest dairy producers — California agribusiness interests lobbied Washington for years to legalize the labor force.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That didn’t happen, and then Trump was elected.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because he’d like a leadership role in vigorously challenging Trump policies, Osorio is now running for Delano City Council. He’s also vowing to address Delano’s poor water quality and stop water rate hikes burdening low-income families here. Armed with research to help him home in on infrequent voters, the recent University of California at Berkeley graduate has been knocking on doors on the West side of Delano, the Latino barrio back when Latinos were a minority and some white-owned establishments barred Mexicans from entry.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11702053/the-nations-most-expensive-congressional-race-is-in-the-central-valley\">The Nation’s Most Expensive Congressional Race Is in the Central Valley\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11702053/the-nations-most-expensive-congressional-race-is-in-the-central-valley\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/GettyImages-1000649560-1180x787.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Other college students are backing Osorio, and they split up homes chosen as targets. When he’s not campaigning, Osorio’s working as a fellow at the American Civil Liberties Institute.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve gotten a lot of vulgar comments from older men,” Osorio said of reactions to his campaign. “They said, ‘When I was your age I was chasing girls and partying. But my respect to you.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During his canvassing rounds, Osorio secured a verbal pledge of support from an 80-year-old citizen relaxing in his rose garden. A younger man in dusty work clothes shook Osorio’s hand and assured him in a mix of Spanish and English that he’d already voted “all Democrats” and for Osorio.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Maybe he did,” Osorio said, as his team discussed follow up visits. Not all voters appreciated the students’ visits. As one of Osorio’s friends approached a house, he was met with: “I don’t vote. Go away.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Split Ticket Voters\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>It’s easy to see why it’s frustrating to Delano immigrant activists and Democrats that the 21st congressional district remains Republican.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The sunbaked valley has some of the worst air pollution in the country and high rates of health problems like diabetes and asthma. Obamacare was a boon to many low-income residents here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district chose Democrat Hillary Clinton over Trump by more than 15 points in 2016, making it one of seven GOP-held Congressional districts where the Democrat prevailed. But even though Democrats in the 21st had an estimated 16-point registration advantage over Republicans, voters returned Valadao to Congress.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">“We share a history as the children of immigrant parents. We don’t know if the next ICE pursuit will be for one our families.” \u003ccite>Bryan Osorio, 22 who grew up in Delano\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Like the more nationally recognizable Nunes, Valadao, 41, comes from dairy-farming roots. A bank seized Valadao’s family farm in June due to $8 million in unpaid loans, a crisis Valadao said exemplifies the travails of farmers he serves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A mild-mannered man, he recently posed in Arizona with President Trump, along with Nunes and McCarthy of Bakersfield, who hopes to vault from GOP majority leader to Speaker of the House if the GOP retains control.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The photo op on Oct. 19 was all about irrigation water — a massive issue here. It showcased Trump signing a memo accelerating biological reviews of water systems that Central Valley farmers — and workers — hope will divert more water from California rivers bearing endangered species. Trump’s move was met here with strong approval, and there was Valadao by his side.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to its tight bond with agribusiness, the valley is also one of California’s most culturally conservative regions. Evangelical churches are prominent, along with conservative talk radio in English and Spanish. Some local Latino activists suggest that Valadao has benefited at the polls because some voters think he is of Mexican heritage. In reality, Valadao is of Portuguese descent, as is Nunes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, what gives Democrats hope for this election?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The president’s lacerating rhetoric about Mexican immigrants has upset a lot of people, so even if they regard Valadao as moderate, Trump has further tarnished the Republican brand in California. About 62 percent of the 21st district’s residents who are eligible to register to vote are Latino.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These immigrants risk their lives to work here,” said Mexican-American Erica Cruz, 48, a self-employed hairdresser whose husband used to be undocumented. “Latinos are getting picked on. This town thrives on Latinos…Trump is putting us in a terrible position and we’re scared.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s irksome to Cruz because it’s plain to her that the region’s agribusiness industry — America’s farm powerhouse — has benefited from people who shoulder all the risks that come with undocumented immigration. Workers have assumed the burden of paying smugglers thousands of dollars to get them over the border, so they can take back-breaking jobs they obtain by showing fake documents that employers have no obligation to authenticate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, it’s common for there to be no bright line between documented and undocumented in towns like Delano because there are many “mixed status” families, with some members citizens, others legal residents and still others who are undocumented, “sin papales,” without papers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11703757\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11703757\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/trump5-800x534.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/trump5-800x534.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/trump5-160x107.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/trump5.jpeg 940w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Immigrant workers are the backbone of agribusiness in California’s 21st Congressional District and other GOP-held districts in the Central Valley. (Susan Ferriss / Center for Public Integrity).\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Valadao, whose campaign did not respond to interview requests, has succeeded in part because he’s sensitive to the composition of his district, and he’s tried to walk a difficult line on immigration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On his Spanish-language website, he calls himself as an “hijo de inmigrantes,” a son of immigrants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Valadao’s website also says he supports a path to legal status for undocumented people: “This will allow millions of immigrants to come out of the shadows…and raise their families without the constant fear of deportation.” But none of Valadao’s positions have gone anywhere under GOP leadership.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When pressed on immigration, Valadao has pointed out that he signed a petition this year designed to force GOP House leaders to allow lawmakers to vote on a series of complex immigration proposals, among them a path to legal status for Dreamers, undocumented people brought to the United States as children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The petition failed to lead to any reforms passing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Delano, voters seemed either unaware of the byzantine petition process or dismissed it as window dressing to aid GOP legislators looking for Latino votes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>TJ Cox, Valadao’s Democratic rival, told Valadao during a recent debate: “The fact is your party has control of every branch of government … and you can’t pass … an immigration bill.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cox, 55, is a Fresno engineer and businessman who’s developed dams — he can talk water — and who’s also founded two nut-processing businesses and a series of health centers in lower-income areas. He’s part Chinese and Filipino, which he’s highlighted in this multicultural region.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11703637/immigrant-candidates-versus-trump-anti-immigrant-rhetoric\">Immigrant Candidates Versus Trump’s Anti-Immigrant Rhetoric\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11703637/immigrant-candidates-versus-trump-anti-immigrant-rhetoric\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/valencia_crowd-qut-1180x885.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>But Valadao has attacked Cox for living a few miles outside the 21st district — which is allowed — and for what Cox says was an “honest mistake” in claiming his Fresno home and an East Coast home as his primary address while his wife was studying in Maryland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The influential Cook Political Report predicts a win for Valadao. It’s moved the 21st district race to “likely Republican,” rather than the more equivocal “lean” or “toss up” designations given to some of California’s other contested districts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cox’s campaign, though, sees hope in fresh numbers pollsters might not be capturing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since Trump took office in January 2017, campaign workers point out, more than 30,000 additional people have registered to vote in the 21st district, more than 20,000 of them Latinos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Latinos know there’s some guy there in the administration that has no respect for them,” Cox told the Center for Public Integrity after his wife, Kathleen Murphy, a pediatric intensive care physician, passed her cell phone over for a chat. On a recent weekend, she was in a Delano park with supporters who fanned out through town as part of a Democratic “blue wave” door-to-door strategy to try to coax voters to come out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Joining Murphy was Cruz, the Delano hairdresser, who said that rather than just casting a ballot this year, she felt compelled to hold home meetings and to canvass along with other bilingual volunteers. She’s hoping Republican hostility to the Affordable Care Act — and Valadao’s votes to oppose and then repeal it — will also animate voters to choose Cox.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But, she conceded, many people aren’t aware of Valadao’s votes and she’s left explaining them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We must fight back,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Veronica Lopez, 36, a medical technician, is just the type of voter Cruz wants to reach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an interview at Starbucks, where she was scrolling through her phone, Lopez said that she had voted for Hillary Clinton. She has health insurance through her job. What’s weighing on her mind these days is college affordability, which has stymied her son’s plans for a four-year college.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She does care about immigration to the extent that she doesn’t want to see families “torn apart.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t like people deported for no good reason,” she said. Farms have been losing workers because of ICE enforcement and they need workers, she added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And as for Trump, she said with a shake of her head, “I’ve never seen a president who talks so badly about people.” Will she vote? She thinks so but wasn’t certain. She didn’t seem that excited about the kinds of races on the ballot this time around.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Political scientist Mark Martinez at California State University at Bakersfield, also in Kern County, said he thinks if TJ Cox were running in a presidential election year, his odds of defeating Valadao would be far greater.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">“Latinos know there’s some guy there in the administration that has no respect for them.” — TJ Cox, David Valadao’s Democratic rival\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>A longtime observer of elections here, Martinez said it’s “Poli Sci 101” why more Central Valley voters don’t come out more at midterms: Just as in other parts of the country, he said, the least advantaged people are the least likely \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11697624/why-is-it-so-hard-to-engage-latino-voters-theyre-young-and-historically-neglected\">to believe their vote matters\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have some of the poorest congressional districts,” he said. Valadao, he added, doesn’t make “any stupid mistakes” in regard to the hot-button issue of immigration.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Sowing Voter Seeds\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Another Delano resident, Valerie Gorospe, 40, is a community organizer at Delano’s Center on Race, Poverty and the Environment. She collaborated with a bipartisan voter-registration education campaign this past year called Central Valley Freedom Summer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The campaign sent college students from the University of California’s Santa Cruz and Merced campuses back to their Valley hometowns to talk to kids about voting, and register 18-year-olds along with kids 16 and older, who can pre-register in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gorospe grew up in an Earlimart, right across from a giant vineyard in the 21st Congressional District.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gorospe said she can’t understand how agribusiness can continue to vote for politicians who support Trump, who’s portrayed undocumented people as criminals and has pushed for blanket deportation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s like cutting your arms off,” Gorospe said of Trump-supporting politicians whose districts have so eagerly used immigrant laborers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11703758\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11703758\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/trump6-800x534.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/trump6-800x534.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/trump6-160x107.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/trump6.jpeg 940w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Valerie Gorospe, 40, a Delano community organizer, said more young voters are connecting federal policy under Trump with their families’ lives. (Susan Ferriss / Center for Public Integrity).\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Kern County Farm Bureau didn’t respond to a request to talk about Trump, ICE enforcement and the election. The group’s Facebook page has multiple posts about labor shortage concerns and educational sessions on how to respond to audits of employment records ICE carries out to identify potential undocumented employees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Local chambers of commerce and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce have endorsed Valadao, because of his connections to “ag, energy and water,” as a press release said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Golespe said she thinks Trump and GOP positions on immigration are going to bring more younger voters to the polls next week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve never seen curiosity about voting in this age group like I’ve seen this year,” she said. “They’ve really connected federal policies with what’s happening here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Others are trying to share that optimism. Veronica Terriquez, who is a UC Santa Cruz associate professor of sociology, organized the Freedom Summer project. Research, she said, shows that kids are often “socialized” to vote and learn about candidates and issues within their family. The project is trying to address the absence of that socialization in Central Valley homes because so many kids’ parents aren’t citizens and either can’t vote or vote infrequently.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schools, too, Terriquez said, don’t devote a lot of time encouraging voting. She said some Central Valley school administrators, worried about controversy, were initially hesitant to allow returning college students to talk with younger kids and conduct registration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One of the high school students asked if there were concerns if she, a citizen, registered, and her parents were undocumented,” Terriquez added.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11697624/why-is-it-so-hard-to-engage-latino-voters-theyre-young-and-historically-neglected\">Why Is It So Hard to Engage Latino Voters? They’re Young – and Historically Neglected\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11697624/why-is-it-so-hard-to-engage-latino-voters-theyre-young-and-historically-neglected\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/MenaCanvassing-1180x752.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>During the 2014 midterms, turnout among all Californians eligible to vote was a record low of about 31 percent. But for eligible 18- to 24-year-olds, turnout was even worse at about 8 percent. Turnout for the young demographic in the Central Valley was even lower at less than 7 percent, according to research by the California Civic Engagement Project at the University of Southern California’s Sacramento office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mindy Romero, director of the California Civic Engagement Project, said that beyond registration, cultivating turnout “takes deep, multiple contacts,” along with strategies that include “peer to peer” outreach and time spent in communities off the election cycle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s what one nonpartisan group, Faith in the Valley, has been trying to do in five counties, including Kern, where Delano is.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re shooting to speak to between 12,000 and 15,000 voters,” said Carmen Medrano, a regional organizer for the Valley group. “We’re not from a political party, we say. We’re here about issues, like affordable housing, fair rents, making sure immigrant families are protected.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The United Farm Workers are also active in the district, though they’re focused more on a state Assembly race. On their rounds, canvassers explain the union’s slate choices, which include Valadao’s opponent, TJ Cox. UFW member Nancy Oropeza, who’s working on the effort, said that canvassers have also left potted flowers with voters to remind them — when you water the flower, think about voting.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">“I don’t like people deported for no good reason.” — Veronica Lopez, 36, a medical technician\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The UFW assignment was to reach a universe in multiple towns of 16,000, face-to-face, who are Latino and infrequent voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The first thing we’ve been hearing from people we contact is: Trump, Trump. He attacks us,” Oropeza said. “Once they say, yes, they want to vote, you go back to ensure they’ve received their ballot.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over at Delano’s Our Lady of Guadalupe Church, another influential institution in town — which has collaborated with the UFW to aid the orphaned Garcia children — Father Miguel Campos said the church doesn’t favor candidates in elections. But the church does believe that elections matter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We tell people,” he said, “that it’s a civic and Christian duty to vote.” Tomorrow he’ll find out whether they’re listening.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story was published in partnership with HuffPost.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This has been huge wake-up call for the Latino community,” said Yazmin Hernandez, 22, a graduate of Fresno State University who helps legal permanent-resident immigrants in Delano apply for citizenship. “As a child of farmworkers,” she said, “I really want to vote.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But do others agree? Hernandez and a lot of young Latinos like her — many motivated, some less so — could be pivotal to what happens in this grape-growing region with a disappointing history of voter turnout. That history explains why get-out-the-vote campaigns hoping to energize thousands of voters have been sweeping through California’s Central Valley in recent weeks, as labor groups and immigrant rights activists aim to send a message to President Donald J. Trump.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the eye of the storm: the district’s congressman, U.S. Rep. David Valadao, a Republican who has defied the odds by being elected three times in a district where Democrats hold a registration advantage and Hillary Clinton was victorious just two years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Youth Get Involved\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>There’s no escaping Delano’s dramatic past. Not far from the roadside shrine commemorating the Garcias, the United Farm Workers’ original adobe headquarters, “Forty Acres,” is now a national historic landmark — something few would have imagined in the late 1960s here in Kern County. A bronze plaque and other markers explain Delano’s place in a chapter of American history that still rankles some conservatives and divides people here even today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It took a five-year strike and a national boycott campaign for the UFW to obtain its first union contract in 1970 benefiting Mexican-American and Mexican and Filipino immigrant grape laborers. As door-to-door voter turnout campaigns tick up to Election Day, Forty Acres is a reminder that change can take root slowly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11703753\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11703753\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/trump3-800x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/trump3-800x300.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/trump3-160x60.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/trump3-1020x382.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/trump3-1200x450.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/trump3-1180x442.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/trump3-960x360.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/trump3-240x90.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/trump3-375x140.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/trump3-520x195.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/trump3.jpg 1260w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Delano is home to Forty Acres, now a national historic landmark. It’s where Cesar Chavez and farmworkers established a headquarters in the late 1960s to fight for farm labor and civil rights. Chavez fasted in a room at Forty Acres, pictured at left, to demand rights for agricultural workers. (Susan Ferriss / Center for Public Integrity).\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For frustrated Democrats, this is a crucial beachhead. Out of the 53 seats allotted to California in the House of Representatives, only 14 districts are held by Republicans in a state that’s been gradually turning deep blue for years now. Delano, 77 percent Latino, sits in one of the GOP pockets: the sprawling 21st Congressional District. The Almanac of American Politics says Valadao has won here against Democratic candidates “who have consistently under-performed initial expectations.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stretching more than 150 miles northwest to southeast, the Valley district includes parts of Fresno, Kings, Tulare and Kern counties and a piece of the city of Bakersfield. The district is also home to a smattering of small cities, Naval Air Station Lemoore, a major fighter base, and mile after mile of crops and dairy farms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Interest in midterm elections is usually tepid compared to presidential races. But it’s the age of Trump, and California is a state where Latinos, mostly Mexican-American, are now the single largest demographic.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">“As a child of farmworkers, I really want to vote.” \u003ccite>Yazmin Hernandez, 22 \u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Against this backdrop, Democrats hope that more door-to-door contact with “low-propensity” voters and “ticket splitters” will channel that anti-Trump sentiment into victories in at least a few GOP-held districts. If that happens, GOP California could shrink more and contribute to “flipping” the Republican-held U.S. House of Representatives to Democrats. But Valadao has not been alone in bucking the tide; neighboring conservative districts are held by House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy and\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11702053/the-nations-most-expensive-congressional-race-is-in-the-central-valley\"> rising conservative star Devin Nunes.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Democrats would dearly love to do better here. But even enthusiasts don’t expect turnout miracles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Statewide, Latinos are only 21 percent of those most likely to vote in elections generally, even though 34 percent of those eligible to vote in California are Latino, according to the Public Policy Institute of California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But young people, especially, who are scared for their peers’ or their own undocumented parents, say there’s no choice but to hit the streets and persuade those eligible to cast ballots.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We share a history as the children of immigrant parents. We don’t know if the next ICE pursuit will be for one our families,” said Bryan Osorio, 22, who grew up in Delano. He explained the personal stakes for so many here during a meeting at Delano’s sole Starbucks. The coffee shop wasn’t far from where workers, swaddled in scarfs to fend off dust, were gleaning the last of this area’s gargantuan crop of table grapes to ship back East.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11703756\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11703756\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/trump4-800x534.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/trump4-800x534.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/trump4-160x107.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/trump4-240x160.jpeg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/trump4-375x250.jpeg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/trump4-520x347.jpeg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/trump4.jpeg 940w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bryan Osorio, 22, of Delano, talks to an 80-year-old Delano voter. Osorio is a University of California, Berkeley, graduate running for Delano City Council to address drinking water problems and defend immigrant families. (Susan Ferriss / Center for Public Integrity).\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>After the Garcias died, Delano police examined video and found that ICE agents had pursued the couple with lights flashing, contrary to what ICE agents told officers investigating circumstances of the chase. Police recommended Kern County prosecutors charge ICE agents for providing false information, but prosecutors disagreed that evidence supported that charge. Osorio and fellow students who were home on spring break marched with Delano high school students denouncing Trump’s aggressive deployment of ICE.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Osorio’s immigrant parents aren’t citizens and can’t vote, he said. But he can.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Going back years, Republican politicians and agribusiness companies in California have acknowledged that they depend on immigrant workers, many of whom likely don’t have authentic work documents. As producers of more than half the fruits, vegetables and nuts in the country — and as the biggest dairy producers — California agribusiness interests lobbied Washington for years to legalize the labor force.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That didn’t happen, and then Trump was elected.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because he’d like a leadership role in vigorously challenging Trump policies, Osorio is now running for Delano City Council. He’s also vowing to address Delano’s poor water quality and stop water rate hikes burdening low-income families here. Armed with research to help him home in on infrequent voters, the recent University of California at Berkeley graduate has been knocking on doors on the West side of Delano, the Latino barrio back when Latinos were a minority and some white-owned establishments barred Mexicans from entry.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11702053/the-nations-most-expensive-congressional-race-is-in-the-central-valley\">The Nation’s Most Expensive Congressional Race Is in the Central Valley\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11702053/the-nations-most-expensive-congressional-race-is-in-the-central-valley\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/GettyImages-1000649560-1180x787.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Other college students are backing Osorio, and they split up homes chosen as targets. When he’s not campaigning, Osorio’s working as a fellow at the American Civil Liberties Institute.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve gotten a lot of vulgar comments from older men,” Osorio said of reactions to his campaign. “They said, ‘When I was your age I was chasing girls and partying. But my respect to you.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During his canvassing rounds, Osorio secured a verbal pledge of support from an 80-year-old citizen relaxing in his rose garden. A younger man in dusty work clothes shook Osorio’s hand and assured him in a mix of Spanish and English that he’d already voted “all Democrats” and for Osorio.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Maybe he did,” Osorio said, as his team discussed follow up visits. Not all voters appreciated the students’ visits. As one of Osorio’s friends approached a house, he was met with: “I don’t vote. Go away.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Split Ticket Voters\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>It’s easy to see why it’s frustrating to Delano immigrant activists and Democrats that the 21st congressional district remains Republican.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The sunbaked valley has some of the worst air pollution in the country and high rates of health problems like diabetes and asthma. Obamacare was a boon to many low-income residents here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district chose Democrat Hillary Clinton over Trump by more than 15 points in 2016, making it one of seven GOP-held Congressional districts where the Democrat prevailed. But even though Democrats in the 21st had an estimated 16-point registration advantage over Republicans, voters returned Valadao to Congress.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">“We share a history as the children of immigrant parents. We don’t know if the next ICE pursuit will be for one our families.” \u003ccite>Bryan Osorio, 22 who grew up in Delano\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Like the more nationally recognizable Nunes, Valadao, 41, comes from dairy-farming roots. A bank seized Valadao’s family farm in June due to $8 million in unpaid loans, a crisis Valadao said exemplifies the travails of farmers he serves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A mild-mannered man, he recently posed in Arizona with President Trump, along with Nunes and McCarthy of Bakersfield, who hopes to vault from GOP majority leader to Speaker of the House if the GOP retains control.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The photo op on Oct. 19 was all about irrigation water — a massive issue here. It showcased Trump signing a memo accelerating biological reviews of water systems that Central Valley farmers — and workers — hope will divert more water from California rivers bearing endangered species. Trump’s move was met here with strong approval, and there was Valadao by his side.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to its tight bond with agribusiness, the valley is also one of California’s most culturally conservative regions. Evangelical churches are prominent, along with conservative talk radio in English and Spanish. Some local Latino activists suggest that Valadao has benefited at the polls because some voters think he is of Mexican heritage. In reality, Valadao is of Portuguese descent, as is Nunes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, what gives Democrats hope for this election?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The president’s lacerating rhetoric about Mexican immigrants has upset a lot of people, so even if they regard Valadao as moderate, Trump has further tarnished the Republican brand in California. About 62 percent of the 21st district’s residents who are eligible to register to vote are Latino.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These immigrants risk their lives to work here,” said Mexican-American Erica Cruz, 48, a self-employed hairdresser whose husband used to be undocumented. “Latinos are getting picked on. This town thrives on Latinos…Trump is putting us in a terrible position and we’re scared.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s irksome to Cruz because it’s plain to her that the region’s agribusiness industry — America’s farm powerhouse — has benefited from people who shoulder all the risks that come with undocumented immigration. Workers have assumed the burden of paying smugglers thousands of dollars to get them over the border, so they can take back-breaking jobs they obtain by showing fake documents that employers have no obligation to authenticate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, it’s common for there to be no bright line between documented and undocumented in towns like Delano because there are many “mixed status” families, with some members citizens, others legal residents and still others who are undocumented, “sin papales,” without papers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11703757\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11703757\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/trump5-800x534.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/trump5-800x534.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/trump5-160x107.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/trump5.jpeg 940w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Immigrant workers are the backbone of agribusiness in California’s 21st Congressional District and other GOP-held districts in the Central Valley. (Susan Ferriss / Center for Public Integrity).\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Valadao, whose campaign did not respond to interview requests, has succeeded in part because he’s sensitive to the composition of his district, and he’s tried to walk a difficult line on immigration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On his Spanish-language website, he calls himself as an “hijo de inmigrantes,” a son of immigrants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Valadao’s website also says he supports a path to legal status for undocumented people: “This will allow millions of immigrants to come out of the shadows…and raise their families without the constant fear of deportation.” But none of Valadao’s positions have gone anywhere under GOP leadership.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When pressed on immigration, Valadao has pointed out that he signed a petition this year designed to force GOP House leaders to allow lawmakers to vote on a series of complex immigration proposals, among them a path to legal status for Dreamers, undocumented people brought to the United States as children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The petition failed to lead to any reforms passing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Delano, voters seemed either unaware of the byzantine petition process or dismissed it as window dressing to aid GOP legislators looking for Latino votes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>TJ Cox, Valadao’s Democratic rival, told Valadao during a recent debate: “The fact is your party has control of every branch of government … and you can’t pass … an immigration bill.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cox, 55, is a Fresno engineer and businessman who’s developed dams — he can talk water — and who’s also founded two nut-processing businesses and a series of health centers in lower-income areas. He’s part Chinese and Filipino, which he’s highlighted in this multicultural region.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11703637/immigrant-candidates-versus-trump-anti-immigrant-rhetoric\">Immigrant Candidates Versus Trump’s Anti-Immigrant Rhetoric\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11703637/immigrant-candidates-versus-trump-anti-immigrant-rhetoric\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/valencia_crowd-qut-1180x885.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>But Valadao has attacked Cox for living a few miles outside the 21st district — which is allowed — and for what Cox says was an “honest mistake” in claiming his Fresno home and an East Coast home as his primary address while his wife was studying in Maryland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The influential Cook Political Report predicts a win for Valadao. It’s moved the 21st district race to “likely Republican,” rather than the more equivocal “lean” or “toss up” designations given to some of California’s other contested districts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cox’s campaign, though, sees hope in fresh numbers pollsters might not be capturing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since Trump took office in January 2017, campaign workers point out, more than 30,000 additional people have registered to vote in the 21st district, more than 20,000 of them Latinos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Latinos know there’s some guy there in the administration that has no respect for them,” Cox told the Center for Public Integrity after his wife, Kathleen Murphy, a pediatric intensive care physician, passed her cell phone over for a chat. On a recent weekend, she was in a Delano park with supporters who fanned out through town as part of a Democratic “blue wave” door-to-door strategy to try to coax voters to come out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Joining Murphy was Cruz, the Delano hairdresser, who said that rather than just casting a ballot this year, she felt compelled to hold home meetings and to canvass along with other bilingual volunteers. She’s hoping Republican hostility to the Affordable Care Act — and Valadao’s votes to oppose and then repeal it — will also animate voters to choose Cox.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But, she conceded, many people aren’t aware of Valadao’s votes and she’s left explaining them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We must fight back,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Veronica Lopez, 36, a medical technician, is just the type of voter Cruz wants to reach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an interview at Starbucks, where she was scrolling through her phone, Lopez said that she had voted for Hillary Clinton. She has health insurance through her job. What’s weighing on her mind these days is college affordability, which has stymied her son’s plans for a four-year college.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She does care about immigration to the extent that she doesn’t want to see families “torn apart.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t like people deported for no good reason,” she said. Farms have been losing workers because of ICE enforcement and they need workers, she added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And as for Trump, she said with a shake of her head, “I’ve never seen a president who talks so badly about people.” Will she vote? She thinks so but wasn’t certain. She didn’t seem that excited about the kinds of races on the ballot this time around.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Political scientist Mark Martinez at California State University at Bakersfield, also in Kern County, said he thinks if TJ Cox were running in a presidential election year, his odds of defeating Valadao would be far greater.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">“Latinos know there’s some guy there in the administration that has no respect for them.” — TJ Cox, David Valadao’s Democratic rival\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>A longtime observer of elections here, Martinez said it’s “Poli Sci 101” why more Central Valley voters don’t come out more at midterms: Just as in other parts of the country, he said, the least advantaged people are the least likely \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11697624/why-is-it-so-hard-to-engage-latino-voters-theyre-young-and-historically-neglected\">to believe their vote matters\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have some of the poorest congressional districts,” he said. Valadao, he added, doesn’t make “any stupid mistakes” in regard to the hot-button issue of immigration.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Sowing Voter Seeds\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Another Delano resident, Valerie Gorospe, 40, is a community organizer at Delano’s Center on Race, Poverty and the Environment. She collaborated with a bipartisan voter-registration education campaign this past year called Central Valley Freedom Summer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The campaign sent college students from the University of California’s Santa Cruz and Merced campuses back to their Valley hometowns to talk to kids about voting, and register 18-year-olds along with kids 16 and older, who can pre-register in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gorospe grew up in an Earlimart, right across from a giant vineyard in the 21st Congressional District.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gorospe said she can’t understand how agribusiness can continue to vote for politicians who support Trump, who’s portrayed undocumented people as criminals and has pushed for blanket deportation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s like cutting your arms off,” Gorospe said of Trump-supporting politicians whose districts have so eagerly used immigrant laborers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11703758\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11703758\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/trump6-800x534.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/trump6-800x534.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/trump6-160x107.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/trump6.jpeg 940w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Valerie Gorospe, 40, a Delano community organizer, said more young voters are connecting federal policy under Trump with their families’ lives. (Susan Ferriss / Center for Public Integrity).\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Kern County Farm Bureau didn’t respond to a request to talk about Trump, ICE enforcement and the election. The group’s Facebook page has multiple posts about labor shortage concerns and educational sessions on how to respond to audits of employment records ICE carries out to identify potential undocumented employees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Local chambers of commerce and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce have endorsed Valadao, because of his connections to “ag, energy and water,” as a press release said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Golespe said she thinks Trump and GOP positions on immigration are going to bring more younger voters to the polls next week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve never seen curiosity about voting in this age group like I’ve seen this year,” she said. “They’ve really connected federal policies with what’s happening here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Others are trying to share that optimism. Veronica Terriquez, who is a UC Santa Cruz associate professor of sociology, organized the Freedom Summer project. Research, she said, shows that kids are often “socialized” to vote and learn about candidates and issues within their family. The project is trying to address the absence of that socialization in Central Valley homes because so many kids’ parents aren’t citizens and either can’t vote or vote infrequently.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schools, too, Terriquez said, don’t devote a lot of time encouraging voting. She said some Central Valley school administrators, worried about controversy, were initially hesitant to allow returning college students to talk with younger kids and conduct registration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One of the high school students asked if there were concerns if she, a citizen, registered, and her parents were undocumented,” Terriquez added.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11697624/why-is-it-so-hard-to-engage-latino-voters-theyre-young-and-historically-neglected\">Why Is It So Hard to Engage Latino Voters? They’re Young – and Historically Neglected\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11697624/why-is-it-so-hard-to-engage-latino-voters-theyre-young-and-historically-neglected\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/MenaCanvassing-1180x752.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>During the 2014 midterms, turnout among all Californians eligible to vote was a record low of about 31 percent. But for eligible 18- to 24-year-olds, turnout was even worse at about 8 percent. Turnout for the young demographic in the Central Valley was even lower at less than 7 percent, according to research by the California Civic Engagement Project at the University of Southern California’s Sacramento office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mindy Romero, director of the California Civic Engagement Project, said that beyond registration, cultivating turnout “takes deep, multiple contacts,” along with strategies that include “peer to peer” outreach and time spent in communities off the election cycle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s what one nonpartisan group, Faith in the Valley, has been trying to do in five counties, including Kern, where Delano is.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re shooting to speak to between 12,000 and 15,000 voters,” said Carmen Medrano, a regional organizer for the Valley group. “We’re not from a political party, we say. We’re here about issues, like affordable housing, fair rents, making sure immigrant families are protected.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The United Farm Workers are also active in the district, though they’re focused more on a state Assembly race. On their rounds, canvassers explain the union’s slate choices, which include Valadao’s opponent, TJ Cox. UFW member Nancy Oropeza, who’s working on the effort, said that canvassers have also left potted flowers with voters to remind them — when you water the flower, think about voting.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">“I don’t like people deported for no good reason.” — Veronica Lopez, 36, a medical technician\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The UFW assignment was to reach a universe in multiple towns of 16,000, face-to-face, who are Latino and infrequent voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The first thing we’ve been hearing from people we contact is: Trump, Trump. He attacks us,” Oropeza said. “Once they say, yes, they want to vote, you go back to ensure they’ve received their ballot.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over at Delano’s Our Lady of Guadalupe Church, another influential institution in town — which has collaborated with the UFW to aid the orphaned Garcia children — Father Miguel Campos said the church doesn’t favor candidates in elections. But the church does believe that elections matter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We tell people,” he said, “that it’s a civic and Christian duty to vote.” Tomorrow he’ll find out whether they’re listening.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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