Orange County followed their wallets, not their hearts, in voting blue

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Nine in 10 Americans saw bigger paychecks this year thanks to the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, but last year’s tax cuts may have cost the Republican Party their last stronghold in California.

Orange County, the bedrock of California’s Republican Party and original supporter of the groundbreaking anti-tax law, Proposition 13, flipped entirely blue this year. The Orange Curtain fell, and all seven House seats representing Orange County now belong to Democrats.

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