Former San Jose Mayor Sam Liccardo won California’s 16th Congressional District to succeed longtime Congresswoman Anna Eshoo, who retired after nearly three decades.
Despite the call by the Associated Press on Wednesday evening, Liccardo says he is not yet declaring victory. Liccardo, a democrat, was a two-term mayor of San Jose from 2015 to 2023. Before that, he was on the San Jose City Council, where he represented the downtown area. He also used to be a Santa Clara County prosecutor.
"We are going to need to step up to defend democratic institutions, to defend our immigrant communities, to defend reproductive rights and other rights – I will be fighting to do that," Liccardo said on Wednesday evening. Liccardo beat state Assemblyman Evan Low, who used to be Campbell’s mayor – the youngest Asian American and youngest LGBTQ+ mayor in the country, in 2009.
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