{"id":28333,"date":"2020-09-28T18:18:10","date_gmt":"2020-09-29T01:18:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=28333"},"modified":"2020-09-28T18:18:10","modified_gmt":"2020-09-29T01:18:10","slug":"democrats-take-voter-registration-lead-in-ad-68","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=28333","title":{"rendered":"DEMOCRATS TAKE VOTER REGISTRATION LEAD IN AD-68"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>For First Time Since Redistricting, Assembly District 68 Has More Registered Democrats Than Republicans<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>IRVINE, CA<\/strong><span style=\"font-family: georgia, times, times new roman, serif; font-size: medium;\">\u00a0\u2013\u00a0<\/span>In a sign of the overwhelming enthusiasm on the Democratic side just over a month from the election, for the first time, a plurality of voters in California\u2019s 68th Assembly District are now registered Democrats.<\/p>\n<p>As of today\u2019s voter file update in Orange County, there are now 27 more registered Democrats than Republicans in the 68th \u2013 a striking turnaround.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jacobsonzilber.us18.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=090f688bb56e19981ee7aa29c&amp;id=0654b4e4b2&amp;e=eeb0aebedc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/jacobsonzilber.us18.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u%3D090f688bb56e19981ee7aa29c%26id%3D0654b4e4b2%26e%3Deeb0aebedc&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1601406002491000&amp;usg=AFQjCNGIjPl3NMXk2lue4lNU3I1RoTBHLA\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"CToWUd\" src=\"https:\/\/ci4.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/X3FrO_G_vN4uul79y7IWCgCUS-zSwVHyLc6qLT63DMeKPABpQAuwEvFz1VYPGHXrWFlGQiG5vJkrOrN8d09Bc22BN1Eq0YqBn-g71exK8PrSxfYFfMf9LOSqHpYjW79LgYu4t4ssxBtnVUMsQaup4aaLr0V51Q=s0-d-e1-ft#https:\/\/mcusercontent.com\/090f688bb56e19981ee7aa29c\/images\/b647ab0f-cb57-400c-8949-e0cc8205d7f9.png\" width=\"600\" height=\"268\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Remarking on the achievement, Irvine Councilwoman and AD-68 candidate Melissa Fox stated:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m extremely proud of the grassroots activists who have spent years mobilizing our community and registering voters to achieve this milestone. The growing number of Democratic voters in every corner of this district makes it abundantly clear that the politics of Donald Trump and Steven Choi\u2019s Republican Party are inconsistent with the values of our community, and that voters are demanding a representative who reflects the honesty, integrity, and inclusivity of the 68th District. My message to our district\u2019s thousands of new registrants is: regardless of which party you register with, your vote matters, this election matters, and I hope every new registrant makes sure to vote by November 3rd.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s announcement\u00a0follows the news that\u00a0Councilwoman\u00a0Fox\u2019s campaign significantly outraised sitting incumbent Assemblymember Steven Choi in the latest fundraising report, raising more than double the amount Choi raised in that period.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For First Time Since Redistricting, Assembly&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28334,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ca-local"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28333"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28333\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28335,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28333\/revisions\/28335"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/28334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}