Who Will Succeed Diane Feinstein in the US Senate?

So far, 15 candidates are officially running for Feinstein’s Senate seat, according to the Federal Election Commission.

These are the prominent ones

Dems, they're all well-known members of the US House of Representatives

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As for the Repug, so far only one prominent one, attoney Eric Early from the "woke" entertainment industry. To the extent that he has lost every election that he has entered, he is prominent. also noteworthy is the fact that

• the most powerful GOPer in the state, Kevin McCarthy, refused to endorsed his candidacy for the Calif AG position last year.
• he is for additional restrictions on abortion right, which doesn't bode well in a state that is 84% pro choice.

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you beat me to it.

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imho, altho he is more well-known than the other GOP candidates, this former media darling has too many skeletons in his closet.

In his playing days, the media in SoCal had portrayed him as a saint. post his retirement from the MLB, The Roman Catholic University, U of San Diego, then named him to its board of trustees. and a newly constructed junior high school in Lindsay, CA was named after Steve Garvey. The :LA Dodger hired his company to do public relations work.

then came the news of Garvey fathering two children with different women in the span of one year, and a marriage to a third woman.

Comedian Bob Uecker came up with this great line,

"Pete Rose may have bet on the Breeders cup,
but Steve Garvey won the breeder's cup!"​

Garvey later resigned from the board of trustees; and his company, The Garvey Marketing Group, had to file for bankruptcy. and the LA Dodger fired him as a Public Relations rep.

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yet another monkey wrench

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Debt ceiling vote splits Top Democratic candidates for Feinstein’s Senate seat​

Rep. Adam B. Schiff of Burbank was the sole Democratic Senate candidate who joined 164 other Democrats and 149 Republicans in voting to approve the package, which
will suspend the nation’s borrowing limit until 2025 and imposed cuts on certain federal programs that are popular among Democrats.

Reps. Barbara Lee of Oakland and Katie Porter of Irvine, meanwhile, joined 44 other Democrats in voting against the proposal, maintaining that
the president and his negotiators should not have allowed Republicans to advance their policy agendas in the face of a potential economic disaster.


https://www.latimes.com/politics/st...iling-vote-schiff-porter-lee-feinstein-senate

 

Porter has ruffled some feathers in the Dem party establishment.

She has had some run-ins with long-time SoCal Rep Maxine Waters, a close ally of Nancy pelosi. as a result, on can infer that, she was taken off exclusive committe assignments.

Californians are forever thankful to Kamala Harris for these historic settlements against financial institutions

$25-B foreclosure settlement was a victory
for Kamala in California



Wells Fargo To Pay California $8.5M
In Telephone Privacy Settlement​

As AG for Calif, Kamala had appointed then-UCI law professor Katie Porter to head the investigation team gathering evidence for these lawsuits to protect Calif consumers.

 

Kamala Harris also had many baggages when she was running for the state AG and later the US Senate; foremost among them was the convenient claim that she had slept her way to advance her political career.

IIRC,

Harris went on to win convincingly in both Northerm and So Cal, both times

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not that sexual predator

 

Former Google exec and investor eyes California Senate race​

Lexi Reese, a Google alumna, has assembled a team of political heavy hitters as she formally explores joining the crowded field of Democrats running for Dianne Feinstein’s seat.





Early public and private polls show a tight race at the top between Schiff and Porter, with Lee running a distant third. Schiff had nearly $25 million on hand at the close of the last quarter while Porter finished the year’s first filing period with $9.5 million. Lee, the lone Bay Area Democrat in the race before Reese, stood at $1.2 million as of March 31.

 

A gift from Kevin McCarthy, the weakest Speaker ever, to Adam Schiff

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On the surface, he censure was a victory for Donald Trump, who had called for primary challenges to any Republicans who voted against it, and an indication of the former president’s continued hold on the GOP.

But Schiff didn’t fight particularly hard against the effort to formally chastise him. He told The Times he initiated no conversations with Republicans in the last week to sway their votes; he’s called the censure a “badge of honor” and has already begun using the free publicity to fuel his Senate campaign.

“Roosevelt said you can judge a person by the enemies they make,” Schiff said in an interview with The Times on Wednesday before the vote. “By that standard, I’m doing pretty damn well.

Schiff, in a hotly contested Senate race, can use the publicity, and the funds that come with it. On Tuesday night, he blasted out a campaign text message asking for donations: “Please, rush an urgent donation to help me fight back against this political attack so we can get back to addressing the real needs of our country,” he wrote. The congressman hauled in $6.5 million in the first quarter of 2023, but Democratic Rep. Katie Porter of Irvine — his closest competitor right now — wasn’t far behind, with $4.5 million.

With just over a week of fundraising left this quarter, and with nine months until primary day, the censure may give Schiff a political boost.

“It’s the best thing that could happen to him,” said Mike Madrid, a Republican political consultant and co-founder of the anti-Trump Lincoln Project. “It’s the biggest in-kind contribution he could receive.”