LIVE RESULTS: Vince Fong advances to runoff for Kevin McCarthy's seat, tight race for second spot

FRESNO COUNTY, Calif. (KFSN) -- Vince Fong is advancing to a May predetermination successful California to determine who volition implicit the remainder of erstwhile U.S. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy's term.

California's 20th Congressional District has been without a typical since the opening of the twelvemonth aft McCarthy resigned from Congress.

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Assemblyman Vince Fong and Tulare County Sheriff Mike Boudreaux are heading to the wide predetermination successful November, competing for a afloat word successful office.

Tuesday's peculiar predetermination volition find who volition implicit McCarthy's term.

Fong has the vantage successful Kern County.

The situation for me, really, is trying to reassure radical successful Kern that we're going to correspond the full district, including Kern. It's precise strong, 50 percent of the votes are successful Kern," explained Boudreaux.

The 20th territory is 1 of the astir blimpish successful the authorities -- which is wherefore 2 Republicans are showing up astatine the top.

"With 47% Republican, it would beryllium hard to situation whoever comes retired connected top. It's a bully race; I anticipation it's a cleanable race," said Connie Conway, a GOP governmental analyst.

Because of that, there's cross-party enactment for some candidates, and it's thing adjacent Democrats extracurricular of the territory are paying attraction to.

"As a Democrat, I'm looking for which of the 2 we could perchance enactment wrong a much bipartisan way. I deliberation radical volition ticker intimately aft this predetermination to spot which of the 2 we tin enactment with travel January," said Henry Perea, a Democratic governmental analyst.

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