 In her concession speech, she stated that "Although we don't know what our future will be, I can tell you that this is not the last that people will see of me".Despite losing Orange County overall, Sanchez easily won Garden Grove by a 67%-33% margin, her widest margin of victory for a city in Orange County.In January 2017, Sanchez donated her congressional papers to her alma mater, Chapman University in Orange, California.