Rep. Dana Rohrabacher—the pro-Russia Republican who once boasted about a drunken arm-wrestling contest with Russian President Vladimir Putin in the 1990s—appears to be losing his seat to Democrat Harley Rouda.
As of Wednesday morning, with all precincts counted, Rouda has a lead of more than 2,680 votes; “several thousand” provisional and late vote-by-mail ballots are still to be counted, The Orange County Register reports.
Rohrabacher has been a staunch supporter of Donald Trump and his deeply Republican 48th House District in California re-elected him for three decades running.
He was dubbed “Putin’s favorite congressman” after it was revealed that he used information he received directly from the Russian government to promote one of the Russian president’s top priorities: removing the name of the murdered Russian lawyer Sergei Magnitsky from a global anti-corruption law.
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Rouda is a real-estate executive and former Republican who switched parties. She said ahead of the election: “President Trump has changed everything.”
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By the spring Dana will be sharing a dacha on the Black Sea with Steve Seagal. https://t.co/8Skpn6OVXk
— John Schindler (@20committee) November 7, 2018
The defeat of Dana Rohrabacher is being celebrated all over the world. It’s even trending in London https://t.co/oXc4jcb9sk
— Bill Browder (@Billbrowder) November 7, 2018
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