Navy veteran Gil Cisneros recently flipped the House seat in California’s 39th Congressional District where he beat former Republican State Assemblywoman Young Kim, and will replace 13-term Republican Ed Royce, to make Orange County completely Democrat.

Cisneros sat down with Inside the Issues host Alex Cohen to discuss his election victory, and his $266 million lottery win in 2010.

“I went back, I found the ticket that I had thrown on my dresser. I got back on the phone with my wife and then we just kind of, you know, she read the numbers to me and I was kinda just like yes, yes…yes. And then I told her, ‘I think we won!’ And then I got online real quick and checked the numbers myself. I would say it was about ten seconds of excitement and then it was ‘Oh my God. What just happened?’” he told host Alex Cohen.