Dave Min Jumps Ahead of Scott Baugh in Coastal OC’s Congressional Race 

Democratic authorities Senator Dave Min pulled up of Republican campaigner Scott Baugh connected Friday nighttime successful the contention for the 47th Congressional District. 

There’s present conscionable implicit 1,000 votes betwixt the 2 candidates, marking 0.38% of the full ballot of implicit 286,000 votes. 

The contention for the 47th District, which covers overmuch of Orange County’s coastline – including cities similar Seal Beach, Huntington Beach, Laguna Beach and Irvine, is 1 of the astir competitory successful the country.  

While Min was starring successful archetypal results connected Election Night, Baugh pulled up successful the aboriginal returns. 

[Read: Min vs Baugh: Election Night Results 2024]

Min, who’s endorsed by outgoing Congresswoman Katie Porter, has been a authorities legislator for the past 4 years aft beating then-Senator John Moorlach. 

[Read: ‘Sky Fell’: Is OC’s Old Brand of Conservative Republican Sunsetting?]

During his authorities Senate tenure, Min has repeatedly clashed  with the Republican metropolis assembly bulk of Huntington Beach, spearheading laws arsenic a nonstop effect to respective of their policies and directing the authorities auditor’s bureau to analyse them implicit the arguable aerial amusement settlement.

[Read: State Auditors to Investigate Huntington Beach’s Pacific Airshow Settlement] 

Baugh ran against Porter successful the 2022 predetermination and mislaid by a constrictive borderline aft spending years retired of nationalist office, with his past elected presumption successful the State Assembly ending successful 2000. 

Noah Biesiada is simply a Voice of OC newsman and corps subordinate with Report for America, a GroundTruth initiative. Contact him astatine nbiesiada@voiceofoc.org oregon connected Twitter @NBiesiada.

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