In a race that examined the attraction of MAGA politics within the Bay Space, District 10 Democrat incumbent Rep. Mark DeSaulnier defeated Republican challenger Katherine Piccinini Tuesday night time.
Whereas DeSaulnier has prioritized Democratic points like girls’s reproductive rights, defending the setting and gun management, Piccinini hoped to upset him with a MAGA-aligned agenda targeted on divisive cultural points comparable to transgender athletes’ participation in girls’s sports activities, COVID vaccine skepticism and closed borders.
DeSaulnier has received commanding victories in every of his congressional races since 2014, however Piccinini hoped to flip the district to Republicans with an explicitly MAGA agenda. Republicans haven’t received in District 10 since 2016, and the polling aggregation web site 5 ThirtyEigth recognized District 10 as a “race to watch.”
DeSaulnier has served as a public official for many of his life, starting in 1991 as a Harmony metropolis councilmember. He was first elected to U.S. Congress in 2014, and joined committees on ethics, transportation, well being, schooling, in addition to being a member of the Congressional Progressive Caucus.
“Ethics and honesty in both parties is important,” DeSaulnier mentioned. “We need to reestablish that after this election… because of Mr. Trump, in particular, people are dissociated from the idea of trusting government.”
Piccinini has made youngsters and household the central tenet of her marketing campaign. The Oakley grandmother is the present president of the East Contra Costa Republican Ladies Federated, and a member of the Republican Central Committee for Contra Costa.
She mentioned she “fears losing America” and promised to revive the values of “God, Family, Life and Country” to District 10 if elected. Her marketing campaign has highlighted the varsity system as a supply of “indoctrination, not education,” whereas criticizing transgender college students’ participation in sports activities.
“I will vote for laws that protect our children from groomers, predators and biological males in girls’ sports,” Piccinini mentioned on her marketing campaign web site.
DeSaulnier’s platform was fastened on much less partisan points amongst Democrats that mirror voters’ most necessary issues in polling by Gallup. The congressman is prioritizing the financial system, girls’s reproductive rights, and “fighting against the reckless Republican agenda” that Democratic leaders have referred to as a menace to democracy.
Prior to now yr, DeSaulnier has keyed in on gun management and psychological healthcare; subjects to which he has given speeches to on the Home flooring. He described his private expertise with gun violence earlier this yr as he sought to influence Congress to cross gun reform laws.
“(Thirty-five) years ago, on April 20, I lost my own father to gun suicide,” DeSaulnier mentioned in a speech on April 11. “35 years later, we have not done enough to address this epidemic of suicide. For far too many people, they continue to lose loved ones the same way I did.”
Initially Printed: November 5, 2024 at 11:03 PM PST
