Opinion: The scramble begins for Feinstein’s U.S. Senate seat
Metaphorically speaking, the ink is still wet on the vote tallies from the 2022 election, but last week saw the beginning of what will be California’s highest profile political contest of 2024 – a duel for the U.S. Senate seat that Dianne Feinstein has held for three decades.
Without waiting, Katie Porter, an Orange County congresswoman who made a name for herself as a relentless cross-examiner of corporate executives in congressional hearings, declared her candidacy last week and immediately gained an endorsement from Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren, a leading progressive figure.
Almost instantaneously, Porter raised more than a million dollars for her Senate run and she’ll need that and much more to mount a serious Senate campaign in a state notorious for its high-dollar campaigns – especially if, as expected, she faces competition from other high-profile members of California’s congressional delegation.
Given that California has more than 40 Democrats in Congress, plus statewide officeholders and big city mayors, the list of potential candidates for what could be a decades-long seat in the U.S. Senate is nearly endless.
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