State Assemblyman Jimmy Gomez is heading to Congress, after winning a special election Tuesday in California’s 34th District.

Gomez defeated fellow Democrat Robert Lee Ahn with 60 percent of the vote in the race for the seat which former Democratic Rep. Xavier Becerra vacated to become state attorney general. The election featured two Democrats because of California’s primary rules, where the top two finishers in the primary advance to a runoff, regardless of party affiliation.

The race was a battle over which candidate best represented liberal values.

Gomez lauded himself as the “true progressive” in the race, arguing that he would fight for liberal policies and resist President Donald Trump’s administration in Congress.

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