California may be America’s most populous and progressive state. Yet it hasn’t enjoyed — or endured, depending on your appetite for political drama — a truly competitive U.S. Senate election in more than 30 years. Until now.
that “Senator Feinstein was speaking about the timing of the election, not her announcement” and that "she still intends to announce her decision in the coming months.")
Tellingly, the Democrats looking to replace Feinstein aren’t waiting around. California has a “jungle primary” system, with candidates of all parties competing against each other to win 50% of the vote in an initial round of balloting, followed by a general-election runoff between the top two finishers — again, regardless of party label — if no one manages to clear that threshold.
Either way, the system will encourage each Democrat to carve out their own niche in the hopes of securing just enough votes to survive until round two — a dynamic that will almost certainly accentuate the deeper Democratic divisions they embody. The two Southern Californians have the most money in the bank , and the biggest national profiles. The two northern Californians are less loaded, but perhaps more beloved in certain sectors of the left.
An early statewide poll commissioned by the Porter campaign showed Porter leading the potential primary field with 30%, ahead of Schiff Lee and Khanna . In a top-two runoff, Porter led Schiff by 11 percentage points.To do so, each Democrat will emphasize his or her distinctive brand of progressivism — brands that neatly map the various directions the party as a whole could go in coming years.
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