{"id":155892,"date":"2018-03-10T00:27:30","date_gmt":"2018-03-10T05:27:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=155892"},"modified":"2018-03-10T00:27:30","modified_gmt":"2018-03-10T05:27:30","slug":"former-gop-county-chair-joins-crowded-race-for-congress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/03\/10\/former-gop-county-chair-joins-crowded-race-for-congress\/","title":{"rendered":"Former GOP county chair joins crowded race for Congress"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_155893\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-155893\" style=\"width: 159px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/ScottBaugh.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-155893\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/ScottBaugh.jpg\" alt=\"Former county GOP Chairman Scott Baugh filed to join the crowded field on Friday, the last day to register. He's also a former state assemblyman. (Photo By OCNative (talk), Public Domain)\" width=\"159\" height=\"235\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-155893\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Former county GOP Chairman Scott Baugh filed to join the crowded field on Friday, the last day to register. He&#8217;s also a former state assemblyman. (<a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/w\/index.php?curid=49892856\">Photo By OCNative (talk), Public Domain<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>SANTA ANA, Calif. \u2014 Democrats are targeting Congressman Dana Rohrabacher&#8217;s Orange County seat and now a well-known fellow Republican has entered the race.<\/p>\n<p>Former county GOP Chairman Scott Baugh filed to join the crowded field on Friday, the last day to register. He&#8217;s also a former state assemblyman.<\/p>\n<p>County Registrar of Voters Neal Kelley says Baugh is one of 16 candidates, including eight Democrats and six Republicans.<\/p>\n<p>California&#8217;s 48th Congressional District includes Huntington Beach and other coastal cities. Rohrabacher has represented the area for 29 years.<\/p>\n<p>Orange County once was a GOP stronghold but Democrats have gained significant ground. Hillary Clinton narrowly carried Rohrabacher&#8217;s district in 2016 but he still won by 16 percentage points.<\/p>\n<p>Democrats have targeted four Republican seats in and around Orange County, including one held by retiring Congressman Darrell Issa.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SANTA ANA, Calif. \u2014 Democrats are targeting Congressman Dana Rohrabacher&#8217;s Orange County seat and now a well-known fellow Republican has &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":155893,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24157,16],"tags":[1983,47942],"class_list":["post-155892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-american-news","category-news","tag-congress","tag-former-county-gop-chairman-scott-baugh","mauthors-amy-taxin","mauthors-the-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155892","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155892"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155892\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/155893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}