Voters head back to the polls to fill Kevin McCarthy's seat

FRESNO COUNTY, Calif. (KFSN) -- Voters successful parts of Central California are headed backmost to the polls Tuesday for a Special Election Primary to elite a campaigner to service the remainder of Kevin McCarthy's term.

Just weeks ago, they formed their ballots to spot who would service arsenic their typical successful from January 2025 to 2027.

The March 5th Primary acceptable up Tulare County Sheriff Mike Boudreaux and McCarthy's hand-picked successor, Assemblyman Vince Fong, some Republicans, to look disconnected successful November's General Election.

However, voters inactive request to determine who volition capable the remaining months of Kevin McCarthy's bare seat.

That's what voters volition determine connected Tuesday.

If a campaigner wins much than 50% of the vote, they could instrumentality implicit McCarthy's spot wrong days and service until January 2025.

However, if cipher captures a majority, determination volition beryllium a peculiar predetermination connected May 21st against the apical 2 finishers.

Three voting centers are unfastened successful Kings County, and 5 driblet boxes are successful Lemoore and Hanford. The Registrar of Voters says they've seen debased turnout, with lone astir 24% of voters casting their ballot truthful acold portion astir 30% showed up for the March 5th primary.

"We were expecting a amended turnout. I'm not definite if it's owed to fatigue oregon the disorder by having specified a adjacent predetermination betwixt the March Presidential Primary and our peculiar predetermination for the Congressional District 20," said Lupe Villa, Kings County Registrar of Voters.

In the March 5th Primary, Fong took a wide pb implicit Boudreaux.

Fong is looking guardant to the primary, but besides up to the November General Election.

"We were capable to bash precise well," said Vince Fong, State Assembly District 32. "We prevailed by implicit 17% percent points, and we're going to instrumentality that momentum to March 19th and, of course, November."

When asked if Boudreaux would proceed his bid for Congress successful November, if helium loses to Fong connected Tuesday, this is what helium said.

"If helium prevails, we volition beryllium carrying buckets of h2o uphill; it'll beryllium much of a challenge, and I enactment whoever the voters enactment into that position, but that determination is going to person to beryllium made arsenic we determination forward," said Sheriff Mike Boudreaux, Tulare County.

If you unrecorded wrong the district, you person until Tuesday nighttime to either message successful your ballot, driblet it off, oregon ballot successful person.

Former President Donald Trump again endorsed Fong done a station connected Truth Social past night. Trump had besides endorsed Fong successful the March 5th primary.