Article snippet: Democrat Josh Harder has defeated Rep. MORE (Calif.), a week after the midterm elections were held, knocking off a Republican long seen as vulnerable. The Associated Press called the race for Harder on Tuesday night. "This has been a hard fought campaign and we congratulate Congressman Denham and his family for his service to our nation in the military and to this district in Congress," Harder said in a statement. "Now that it’s over, I pledge to be a member of Congress for this entire district regardless of political party, regardless of who you voted for," he added. "Washington is broken because our leaders have put party over country -- I pledge that I will always put this community before anything in Washington." Denham had sought to distance himself from MORE on immigration, helping to launch the upstart effort from moderate Republicans to force votes on legislation protecting the so-called “Dreamers,” undocumented immigrants brought to the country illegally as kids, even as GOP leaders were fighting to keep the issue off the floor. Denham’s discharge petition gambit ultimately failed, however, as conservatives maneuvered successfully to block votes on any Dreamer bill with a chance of passing. The defeat of efforts to prop up the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, or DACA — an Obama-era initiative Trump has fought to dismantle — has left an uncertain future for Dreamers, while putting Denham in the unenviable position of claiming success in ... Link to the full article to read more