Breaking: Rep. Adam B. Schiff of Burbank is the latest high-profile Democrat to join the 2024 Senate race, while Sen. Dianne Feinstein remains mum on her reelection plans.
His kickoffflaunts anti-endorsements from prominent right-wingers such as Trump — shown referring to the congressman derisively as “Little Pencil Neck” — and Fox News personality Tucker Carlson, who called him “unfit to hold office.”
Porter has also shown fundraising prowess while eschewing corporate PAC contributions, pulling in more than $25 million for her last congressional campaign. But shelast cycle to fend off her Republican challenger, leaving her with $7.7 million in the bank after the election. Lee, who has faced little competition in her deep-blue Oakland district, spent more than $2 million in her last campaign and ended less than $55,000 in the bank.
Born in Massachusetts and raised in Arizona and the Bay Area, Schiff moved to Los Angeles after law school to clerk for a federal judge. As a deputy in the U.S. attorney’s office, he successfully prosecuted Richard Miller, the first FBI agent to be indicted for espionage. Though now a Democratic stronghold, the intersection of the San Fernando and San Gabriel valleys — encompassing Burbank, Glendale and Pasadena — was friendlier territory for Republicans when Schiff ran for Congress in 2000. He squared off against GOP Rep. James Rogan, who had bested Schiff six years earlier for an Assembly seat and, while in Congress, emerged as a central figure in the Republican impeachment of President Clinton.
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