Adam Schiff Took On Donald Trump. Now He's Stepping Into California’s Senate Race
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Rep. Adam Schiff, the Democrats’ calm, stern lead prosecutor during the first impeachment trial of Donald Trump, said Thursday he’ll try to succeed Californian Dianne Feinstein in the Senate.
“Our democracy is under assault from MAGA extremists, who care only about gaining power and keeping it,” Schiff, a former House Intelligence Committee chairman and a member of the panel that investigated the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol, said in a statement.
Feinstein (D), 89, hasn’t said whether she’ll run in 2024, but is widely expected to retire. On Wednesday, she told the website Raw Story that she didn’t know whether she’d be running and as for the rivals entering the race, “However many there are, that’s fine. I mean, I’m a big girl.”