Rep. Adam Schiff maintains a large lead in the race to represent California in the U.S. Senate, a new poll released Thursday shows. Steve Garvey, former baseball star and the Republican candidate for the Golden State’s open Senate seat on the November ballot, was behind the Southern California Democrat by 20 points in the latest … Read more
The final votes from California’s March 5 primary are still being counted, but while the results of some races are still up in the air, it’s becoming clear just how much cash the candidates and independent groups spent per voter — and it’s no small change. U.S. Senate The race for California’s open seat in … Read more
Laura J. Nelson | (TNS) Los Angeles Times In the days before the California Senate primary, political ads calling Rep. Katie Porter a fake, an actor and a hypocrite inundated social media platforms and television programs. The $10 million bill for the advertisements, which were designed to bump Porter out of the race for a rare open Senate … Read more
The Dodgers don’t usually get any intentional help from their archrivals, the Giants. But something that strange just happened in California’s primary: Former Dodgers great and current Republican U.S. Senate candidate Steve Garvey advanced to the general election along with Democratic Rep. Adam B. Schiff — after being elevated almost entirely by the other team. … Read more
Voter turnout in California’s primary is on track to be among the lowest ever. As of last Friday morning, only 20% of registered voters across the state participated in the Super Tuesday primary, according to preliminary numbers from the secretary of state’s office. Keep in mind that ballots sent by mail — as long as … Read more
Perhaps no moment better underscored what set Oakland’s Democratic Rep. Barbara Lee apart from her leading rivals in the race for California’s open U.S. Senate seat — as well as most of her colleagues in Congress — as an exchange in the debate. Asked about the Golden State’s vexing homelessness problem, Republican political rookie Steve … Read more
Throughout California’s U.S. Senate primary — and particularly after it became apparent she had lost — Rep. Katie Porter has been vocal in her criticism of how much money special interest groups and wealthy donors were spending against her. But it was one three-letter word amid a series of posts on X (formerly Twitter) Wednesday … Read more
Rep. Katie Porter never planned for a career in politics, she says, that is, until Donald Trump became president in 2016. But Tuesday night, the political career that she’s built since she won her first congressional race in 2019 — one where she’s gone toe-to-toe with corporate CEOs and established her prowess as a Democratic … Read more
When the late Dianne Feinstein was elected to the U.S. Senate in 1992, joined by Barbara Boxer that same year, it was a first for California. The first time a woman had represented the state in the Senate, and the first state with two women senators. It also marked the first time four women were … Read more
In the 173 years since California became a state, 43 men and four women have occupied its two U.S. Senate seats, and a few achieved prominent places in political history. Explorer and soldier John Fremont, one of the state’s first two senators, is one of the few historic notables, as are newspaper publisher George Hearst, railroad baron Leland … Read more