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U.S. Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Burbank), who was raised in Alamo and graduated from Monte Vista High School in Danville, this week announced a bid for the U.S. Senate seat currently held by longtime California Democrat Dianne Feinstein, whose term expires in 2024.
Schiff, a 12-term congressman representing the Los Angeles area who gained national prominence for his role leading the first impeachment trial against then-President Donald Trump, continued his track record of critical remarks toward the former president and the trajectory of the Republican Party in his Senate campaign announcement Wednesday.
“Our democracy is at great risk. Because GOP leaders care more about power than anything else,” Schiff said on Twitter on Wednesday. “And because our economy isn’t working for millions of hard working Americans. We’re in the fight of our lives — a fight I’m ready to lead as California’s next U.S. Senator.”
The campaign announcement came the same week that Schiff was removed from his post on the House Intelligence Committee by newly elected House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Bakersfield).
Schiff, who was first elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 2000, currently represents the state’s 30th Congressional District consisting of portions of Los Angeles as well as Hollywood and Burbank. He graduated from Monte Vista in 1978, and went on to earn a bachelor’s degree in political science from Stanford University in 1982 before completing law school at Harvard University. His professional legal career included time as a federal prosecutor.
“Growing up in the Bay Area, my parents taught me that public service was a noble calling,” Schiff said in a video posted to Twitter on Wednesday. “That belief brought me to Los Angeles, where I took on some of the toughest cases as an assistant U.S. attorney.”
In recent years, Schiff made headlines as the chair of the House Intelligence Committee during the end of the Trump presidency as well as his role on the Select Committee on the Jan. 6 Attack on the U.S. Capitol. With Republicans taking control of the House this year, McCarthy expelled Schiff from the Intelligence Committee on Tuesday — a move Schiff denounced as politically motivated.
“After all that, I wish I could say the threat of MAGA extremists is over,” Schiff continued in his campaign video. “It is not. Today’s Republican party is gutting the middle class, gutting our democracy. They aren’t going to stop. We have to stop them. That’s why I’m running for the U.S. Senate.”
It remains to be seen whether the Senate seat Schiff is seeking will be an open race, as Feinstein has not publicly stated if she will seek reelection or step aside.
Already, Schiff seems set to face a competitive race within his own party, as fellow Southern Californian Rep. Katie Porter (D-Irvine), who represents a neighboring district to Schiff’s in Orange County, has declared her candidacy for Senate. Longtime East Bay Rep. Barbara Lee (D-Oakland) has also said she intends to run for the Senate seat, but has not yet made an official campaign announcement.
The Senate race will be on the ballot in the March 2024 primary and November 2024 general election.
The two top clowns in Congress being shredded by journalists in this country are Swalwell and Schiff. A top genuine journalist, Monica Showalter sums up Schiff’s attempt to replace Feinstein very well in American Thinker: https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2023/01/adam_schiff_declares_hes_running_for_senate_it_doesnt_go_well.html
I love her final comment- “ What a pathetic situation — all bravado, and no political muscle, just a weak, pencil-necked, effort to make himself look important. He’s going to wish he had President Trump back to lie about.”
So Schiff and Swallwell, the two guys who spent every night on national tv for four years insisting they had very definite proof that the president of the United States colluded with and was an agent of the Russian government, finally got what they earned and deserved.
Two delusional individuals with no self awareness continuing to be the real threat to democracy.
The big question for the democrats that run our state is will they continue to vote these two clowns into office.
Truly and unbelievably pathetic….
“”Our democracy is at great risk. Because GOP leaders care more about power than anything else,” Schiff said on Twitter on Wednesday. “And because our economy isn’t working for millions of hard-working Americans.”
Sorry Adam. The Democrats are the ones who want more government control/power over the citizens, not the “MAGA” Republicans. What do you think the push for “equity”, “climate change”, “disinformation” boards, ESG, new IRS agents, gun control, etc. is all about? We are all at great risk of no longer living in a free society – by electing more people like you.
The economy isn’t “working” because so called progressives know nothing about economics and want more people dependent on the government – for votes. In addition to deliberately increasing energy (production) costs by restricting supply, they punish success and hard work with higher taxes, they want businesses to be run like charities for “income equality” purposes, and they pay people more not to work.
We need fresh blood with no hidden agenda.