SAN DIEGO—More than a week after election results started rolling in, Larry Turner on Wednesday conceded the race for mayor of San Diego to incumbent Todd Gloria.
Gloria holds a 56,000-vote lead over Turner, a San Diego police officer, with around 140,000 ballots left to be counted countywide, but Turner had hoped late votes would break for him.
Instead, Gloria widened his lead, cruising to a second term with a 55.3 percent to 44.6 percent win. Turner blamed “special interests and developers” for outspending his campaign.
Local attorney Steven Richter donated $1.7 million to the conservative Lincoln Club of San Diego’s political action committee. Much of that went toward Turner’s campaign….