The news of Barbara Lee’s decision comes a day after Rep. Katie Porter announced that she was running to replace California Democrat Sen. Dianne Feinstein in 2024
of the left have said in the past that using Feinstein’s Afghanistan vote to criticize her is a farce, as every other member of Congress voted for the war except one.
This is another key area in which Feinstein’s challengers may emerge as notably different, from the left’s perspective. Barbara Lee, then in her second term in the House, was the onlywho voted against the Afghanistan war in the vote just three days after the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, and suffered relentless personal attacks as a result.
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