Clarissa Cervantes now leads Ronaldo Fierro by 48 votes for a spot in the November general election in the latest seesawing primary results for California’s 58th Assembly District.
Cervantes — like Fierro, a Democrat and Riverside city councilmember — had 12,767 votes to Fierro’s 12,719 in results posted by the secretary of state on Monday afternoon, March 11.
The neck-and-neck race has seen Fierro and Cervantes inch ahead of one another for second place in the 58th. Republican Leticia Castillo is in first and will advance to November.
The 58th primary featured a flurry of negative ads attacking Fierro and Cervantes. Mailers and online ads funded by Sacramento super PACs called attention to Cervantes’ two DUI arrests and portrayed her as undeserving of voters’ trust.
Under California’s primary system, the top two vote-getters, regardless of party, advance to the general election. The 58th represents Jurupa Valley, Grand Terrace and parts of Riverside, Corona and Eastvale.
