Dianne Feinstein Is In Trouble Thanks To Kevin De Leon: At 85, California Democrat Dianne Feinstein is the country’s oldest senator. To the disappointment of some on the left, she decided not to retire this year, saying she wants to keep the Senate seat she has held since 1992. With 26 years of wins under her belt, most people expected the election to be more a formality than a campaign; Republicans didn’t even bother running a real candidate against her in the primary.
Thanks to that, and California’s “jungle primary system”—by which the top two vote-getters regardless of party advance to the general ballot—Feinstein is now facing a formidable challenge in Kevin de Le�n, a 51-year-old Democrat to her left, who, despite lacking her name recognition or war chest, has been eroding�her�considerable�lead in the polls. Thanks to spending the last decade in state politics, most recently serving as president of the California Senate, de Le�n even managed to seize the California Democratic Party’s endorsement.
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Thanks to that, and California’s “jungle primary system”—by which the top two vote-getters regardless of party advance to the general ballot—Feinstein is now facing a formidable challenge in Kevin de Le�n, a 51-year-old Democrat to her left, who, despite lacking her name recognition or war chest, has been eroding�her�considerable�lead in the polls. Thanks to spending the last decade in state politics, most recently serving as president of the California Senate, de Le�n even managed to seize the California Democratic Party’s endorsement.
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