After a contentious race in Orange County, California, Republican incumbent Michelle Steel will represent the redrawn 45th Congressional District.
Nov. 15, 2022, 8:00 PM UTCChen in a rare matchup between two Asian American candidates. With more than three-quarters of the ballots in, Steel won with 53.8% of the vote while Chen received 46.2%, NBC News projected.
Chen, 44, ran for a House seat in 2020 before withdrawing. He serves as a lieutenant commander in the Navy Reserve. Chen, the son of Taiwanese parents, attended Harvard on a Reserve Officers’ Training Corps scholarship before working for a consulting firm.win comes as the district is undergoing changes. Once regarded as a Republican stronghold, Orange County has proven to be a battleground district in the past few election cycles.
With a win that in part hinged on the Asian American vote, the race, at times, got nasty, with both candidates fighting to portray themselves as authentic representatives of the community. Throughout the election cycle, the issue of China emerged as a central point of contention. Experts say that similar focus has been used in past campaigns to appeal to the area’s older Vietnamese population, which associates upheaval with communism due to the Vietnam War.
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