For the first time in more than three decades, California won't have a female senator. Here's what experts say could be behind this shift in politics and what may have led to this outcome.
California won't have a female senator for the first time in three decades after Rep. Adam Schiff, Steve Garvey move onto the November election.Former baseball star Steve Garvey, a Republican, and Representative Adam Schiff, a Democrat, will compete in November to fill Dianne Feinstein's U.S. Senate seat in California, effectively ending the congressional careers of Rep. Barbara Lee and Rep. Katie Porter.
"It speaks to the issues women face running in politics," says Dr. Samantha Francois, a Professor of Women's History at Cal State East Bay. "Adam Schiff outraised both his female opponents in the Democratic party, both Katie Porter and Barbara Lee, by two to one," she says. "I think that we have to have a broader lens in terms of looking at local elections, city elections and county elections. We saw Jackie Spear reelected to the Board of Supervisors," says Francois.
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