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Here’s what we have for you today:
- San Diego Wave FC will face the Utah Royals at Snapdragon Stadium tomorrow in the quarterfinal round of the playoffs.
- And shoutout to reader Walton Scott, who correctly guessed yesterday’s news quiz. There were 221 vote centers across the county for Election Day.
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Top story
How Democrats took over San Diego’s congressional delegation, one seat at a time
A blue wave swept the country Tuesday night, and it hit San Diego as well. Every congressional seat in the county is now Democratic.
While Prop. 50 surely had a hand in the matter, but this monochromatic map has been in the works for a while. It wasn’t too far back that three out of these five seats were held by Republicans.
Take Scott Peters seat, covering coastal San Diego out to Escondido and San Marcos, which became blue back in 2012. He’s held it ever since, and saw reelection to his eighth term in congress.
Only a few years after Peters grab of the 50th district, Mike Levin won the 49th district, which straddles San Diego and Orange counties, after Republican Darrell Issa opted to no longer seat reelection in the district. Levin won reelection yesterday and has held the seat since 2018.
That brings us to District 48, which became part of California’s Prop. 50 effort to counter other states’ gerrymandering of districts in anticipation of the midterms. The seat became geographically designed to give Democrats the advantage — and they ended up coming out on top with Marni Von Wilpert as the newly drawn 48th district’s congressional representative.
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🏀 Bill Walton Classic aims to honor San Diego native son, unite local hoops teams: The college basketball doubleheader created to honor the departed center, holds its inaugural edition Saturday, with the San Diego State men’s team playing Colorado Boulder, and a game between the UC San Diego and University of San Diego women’s teams.
🎸 Five questions with Anthony Cullins: From Fallbrook, all over California, then the world: The 26-year-old has released several records, played at national guitar festivals and joined San Diego legend Earl Thomas on several European tour dates.
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