CA: Democrats target Orange County's State Senate seats for 2020 elections

Two of the five State Senate seats that touch Orange County are up for election in 2020, and while both are held by Republican incumbents Democrats see both as potential flip districts, as the party hopes to make the county match its statewide super majority.

But Republicans are confident that a controversial challenger in one race, and a well-known incumbent in the other will help Sens. Ling Ling Chang, R-Diamond Bar, and John Moorlach, R-Costa Mesa, hang on to their seats.

“We feel very good about their chances to be sent back to Sacramento,” said Matt Fleming, spokesman for the California Republican Party.

Though some local state senate districts have switched party representation in recent years, Republicans have long held at least three of the county’s five seats.

State senators are elected to four-year terms, with half of the seats up during presidential elections and the other half up during midterms. Last year, incumbents held on to all three OC state senate seats that were contested. Those included the solidly Republican 36th District in south OC, represented by Pat Bates, R-Laguna Niguel; the solidly blue 32nd District, which covers part of south Los Angeles County plus a slice of north OC and is represented by Bob Archuleta, D-Pico Rivera; and central OC’s 34th District, a seat that has flipped between red and blue in recent years and now is represented Tom Umberg, D-Santa Ana.


https://www.ocregister.com/2019/07/01/democrats-target-orange-countys-state-senate-seats-for-2020-elections/