Latest line: Our political winner and loser of the week

Josh Harder 

32 year-old Democrat, Stanford grad and former Silicon Valley venture capitalist topples incumbent Republican Jeff Denham in race for U.S. House seat representing Modesto and eastern Santa Clara County.

PG&E

Beleaguered utility’s stock prices collapses by more than 45 percent as evidence surfaces showing its power lines may have started the Butte County fire, deadliest in California history.

Eric Swalwell

East Bay Democrat and cable TV fixture easily wins re-election to Congress and begins White House dream by touring Iowa. But he’ll have to beat more than a dozen better-known Democrats if he runs for president.