Daniel Butierez started the night of the special election hoping to become the first Republican to represent Arizona's Seventh Congressional District in Washington.

However, just fifteen minutes after results started rolling in, Butierez stood in front of the about a hundred people gathered at his watch party and conceded the election.

"OK, it's bad," he said, laughing at the results. "Where I'm at right now, the way I'm looking at this is if the homelessness out there is what the city wants, then the homeless out there is what the city's going to get."

The result, though disappointing to Butierez, wasn't a surprise. CD7 has been a safe Democratic stronghold since it was first drawn after the 2000 census.

Butierez says he spent much of his campaign reaching out to Third Party and Democ

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