What Went Down In The June 7 Primaries

Checking in on California’s 47th, where just under 60 percent of votes have been counted. Democratic Rep. Katie Porter is holding steady at 58 percent. Her top opponent, Republican Scott Baugh, is at 27 percent. They look set to face each other in a head-to-head matchup this fall.

About half the expected vote is in from California’s 45th District, and Democrat Jay Chen, a community college trustee, holds a slight edge over Republican Rep. Michelle Steel, 46 percent to 44 percent. That pretty much guarantees they will be the two candidates to advance to November.

In California’s 40th District, it’s looking like a late GOP investment paid off for Rep. Young Kim, who has just 32 percent of the vote but is outpacing fellow Republican Greg Raths, who has just 20 percent. In the closing weeks of the race there were worries that Raths would make it to the general election instead of Kim, where he’d put the seat in jeopardy against Democrat Asif Mahmood (47 percent). But that outcome seems to have been averted, and Mahmood will likely face Kim in the fall.