GOP captures second Democratic US House seat in California
UNITED STATES - OCTOBER 22: Young Kim, candidate for Congress from Orange County, California in 2018, leaves the Capitol Hill Club in Washington on Tuesday, Oct. 22, 2019. (Photo By Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)
LOS ANGELES - Republican Young Kim has defeated Democratic U.S. Rep. Gil Cisneros in Southern California.
The contest was a rematch from 2018, when Cisneros delivered an upset in what had been a longstanding GOP district anchored in Orange County.
Kim's victory Friday in the 39th Congressional District overcame President Donald Trump's poor performance in heavily Democratic California, where he got only one-third of the votes. The former state lawmaker was born in South Korea and grew up in Guam.
Another California Republican born in South Korea -- Michelle Steel -- defeated Democratic U.S. Rep. Harley Rouda in another Orange County district.