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Andrew Gumbel in Orange county

Democrats press for congressional seats in once-red Orange county: ‘If we sit on our asses, we lose’

People stand on opposite sides of a street, one side holding Trump signs, the other holding anti-Trump signs.
Trump supporters across from a Democratic party of Orange county event, in Anaheim, California, on 29 September 2024. Photograph: MediaNews Group/Orange County Register/Getty Images

In an industrial business park in Orange county – the affluent, largely suburban slice of southern California wedged between Los Angeles and San Diego – Dave Min was feeling the weight of the world last weekend.

“If we sit on our asses for the next 10 days, we lose,” the Democratic candidate for California’s 47th congressional district told a roomful of Asian American supporters at his campaign headquarters. “We need to get out that vote.”

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