Current US Senator Feinstein is not running for re-election….
Rep. Shiff, who lost his House Intel seat with the Republican House Majority is now seeking to move upon to the US Senate…
The seat WILL be held by Democrats….
Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) edged out Rep. Katie Porter (D-Calif.) in one of the first polls conducted in the race to replace retiring Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), who announced her retirement earlier this month.
Schiff received 22 percent of support in the University of California, Berkeley-Los Angeles Times poll, with Porter garnering 20 percent — a difference that is within the poll’s 2.5-point margin of error…
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But the poll also found that there is a lot of room for change in these numbers, with around 40 percent of voters saying they were undecided on who they would support in the primary. In California primaries, voters choose from candidates in each party and the top two vote-getters, regardless of party affiliation, advance to a general election.
The early indications of a tight race between Schiff and Porter come as the two lawmakers, who both have national name recognition, start a primary battle that is falling along ideological fault lines in the party. Officials in California also see the campaign dividing along lines of race, gender and identity…