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Page 8A NATION East Oregonian Tuesday, November 6, 2018 Path to power: House races to watch on election night Southwest Washington’s 3rd District offers a test of whether the tea party-driven GOP House takeover in 2010 survives By LAURIE KELLMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON — The path to power in the House winds through a few dozen districts, many of them sub- urban, in Tuesday’s election. Republicans defending their majority and Democrats looking to gain 23 seats they would need to win control. After the first polls close in the eastern United States, the tallies will start reveal- ing clues to where Americans stand in 2018 on immigra- tion, guns, health care, gen- der equality in the #MeToo era — and who they want rep- resenting them in Washington during the next two years of Donald Trump’s presidency. Some races to watch for those keeping score, listed in order of poll-closing times: Kentucky The ruby-red state known for the Derby and sweet bourbon is hosting one of the most competitive and expensive races in the coun- try. The Lexington-area bat- tle pits third-term Republi- can Rep. Andy Barr against Democrat Amy McGrath, a retired Marine fighter pilot. Trump won the 6th Dis- trict by more than 15 per- centage points in 2016. But with the help of care- fully shaped campaign ads that went viral, McGrath holds the edge on campaign fundraising. Polls in the district close at 6 p.m. EST. AP Photo/Steve Helber In this Oct. 15, 2018 photo, Virginia Congressman Dave Brat, R-Va., left, shakes hands with Democratic challenger Abigail Spanberger, right, after a debate at Germanna Community College in Culpeper, Va. The path to power in the House runs through a few dozen districts in Tuesday’s election, with Republicans defending their majority and Democrats looking to gain 23 seats they would need to win control. AP Photo/Adam Beam Georgia Red-hot Georgia is home to a House race that turns on issues of race and gun laws. Republican Rep. Karen Han- del narrowly won her seat in a special election last year that set a record for spend- ing. Now her Democratic challenger is Lucy McBath, a former flight attendant turned gun control activist. McBath’s 17-year-old son, Jordan Davis, was killed by a white man at a gas sta- tion in 2012 when the black teenager refused to lower the volume on the rap music in his car. The district north of Atlanta leans Republican, but Trump won it by only 1 percentage point. Polls close at 7 p.m. EST. Florida National Republicans and Democrats are pour- ing major resources into the Miami-area 27th Dis- trict seat, held since 1989 by retiring Republican Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen. The Democratic nominee, for- mer Health and Human Ser- vices Secretary Donna Sha- lala, has ramped up her Spanish-language adver- tising and Hillary Clinton campaigned for her. But she’s facing a stiff challenge from her Republican oppo- nent, Maria Elvira Salazar, a Cuban-American and for- mer broadcast journalist who, unlike Shalala, speaks Spanish. Though Trump won Florida in 2016, Clin- ton won this congressional district by nearly 20 points. Polls close at 8 p.m. EST. Left: In this Oct. 29 photo, Kentucky’s 6th Congressional District candidates Amy McGrath, left, Andy Barr, center, pose for photos before the start of a debate in Lexington, Ky. Barr, the Republican incumbent, faces a tough challenge from McGrath, a Democrat and retired Marine fighter pilot. The Lexington-area battle is one of the most competitive and expensive races in the country. Trump won the 6th District by more than 15 percentage points in 2016. But with the help of carefully shaped campaign ads that went viral, McGrath holds the edge on campaign fundraising. Right: In this Oct. 13 photo, President Donald Trump, left, listens as Barr, right, speaks at a rally at Alumni Coliseum in Richmond, Ky. New Jersey Along with Califor- nia and Pennsylvania, sub- urb-filled New Jersey is a key battleground for House control. Two seats are open, vacated by veteran Repub- lican Reps. Frank LoBi- ondo and Rodney Freling- huysen, and could fall to the Democrats. Keep a close eye on the 3rd District south of Tren- ton, which twice voted for President Barack Obama but went for Trump by about 6 percentage points. Fight- ing for re-election is Repub- lican Rep. Tom MacAr- thur, who helped strike a deal that pushed the GOP’s “Obamacare” repeal bill to House passage (it failed in the Senate). His Dem- ocratic opponent is politi- cal newcomer Andy Kim, a National Security Council staffer under Obama who has worked in Afghanistan. Polls close 8 p.m. EST. New York This deep-blue state offers a look at how race and Trump’s clout are playing out in the president’s home state. North of New York City in the 19th District, an ad released last month by the Republican National Con- gressional Committee showed clips of Democrat Antonio Delgado perform- ing songs from his 2006 rap album under his stage name, A.D. The Voice. Del- gado, a Rhodes scholar and Harvard Law School gradu- ate, said his opponent, Rep. John Faso, was using racial attacks to alienate him, a black first-time candidate in a district that is more than 90 percent white. Voters there are evenly split among Democrats, Republicans and independents, and went twice for Obama but favored Trump. And in the Buffalo area’s 22nd District, first-term Rep. Claudia Tenney, an early Trump supporter, is drawing comparisons to the president by brashly sug- gesting some people who commit mass murders are Democrats and promoting a petition to lock up Clinton. But in a close race against Democrat Anthony Brindisi, she’s shifted to a softer tone of bipartisanship. Brindisi, a state assemblyman, argues that Tenney’s hyper-partisan approach undermines her claim of working across the aisle. Trump beat Clinton by nearly 16 percentage points here. Polls close 9 p.m. EST. a string of Republican-held districts in California that carried Clinton in the 2016 presidential election. One such battleground in the nation’s fruit-and-nut basket, the Central Valley, is where Republican Jeff Den- ham is trying to keep Dem- ocrat Josh Harder from tak- ing his job. Fallout from Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation hearings and fights over health care and immigra- tion have produced a tossup race where Democrats count a slender registration edge. Denham, a centrist who voted to repeal the Afford- able Care Act, won re-elec- tion by 3 percentage points in 2016, while Clinton won the district with about 49 percent of the vote. In another test of GOP clout in a rapidly diversi- fying district, Rep. Dana Rohrabacher’s re-election is in question for the first time in 30 years. A wave of new and more diverse residents and divi- sions over Trump and the #MeToo movement against sexual misconduct have produced a strong chal- lenge from Democrat Har- ley Rouda. The district went to Clinton in the 2016 presi- dential contest. Polls close at 11 p.m. EST. Washington State Southwest Washington’s 3rd District offers a test of whether the tea party-driven GOP House takeover in 2010 survives. Republican Rep. Jaime Herrera Beut- ler, first elected that year and twice re-elected with more than 60 percent of the vote, has been out-raised in campaign funding by Dem- ocrat Carolyn Long. Her- rera Beutler has broken with her party on such issues as health care. But Long has empha- sized her credentials as an outsider. The district stretch- ing east along the Oregon border voted for Trump by 7 percentage points. 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