Republican Mike Garcia leading Democrat Christy Smith on Wednesday in a California special election for the US House seat vacated by Democrat Rep. Katie Hill.
The winner will fill out the remainder of Hill's term and then Smith and Garcia will face off again in November's general election in a bid for the subsequent two-year term starting in 2021.
The coronavirus epidemic has created more uncertainty in the race, with most voters expected to vote by mail after Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom ordered the state to send ballots to every registered voter's home. The vote-by-mail process, one that California had been increasingly embracing even before the pandemic, hasn't been without controversy.addedVoters were able to cast ballots at a handful of sites if they didn't vote by mail. But Trump and Garcia criticized the late decision to add a site in Lancaster, a city with a significant minority population.
Meanwhile, former Vice President Joe Biden easily defeated Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., in the Nebraska Democratic primary on Tuesday, NBC News projected. With 92 percent of the vote in,
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