Bases Loaded in California’s Senate Race

Three Democrats teamed up against the lone Republican in a televised debate this week in a bid to force him to say whether he was voting for Donald Trump.

(L-R) Rep. Adam Schiff in Los Angeles on May 26, 2023. (Jerod Harris/Getty Images for Demand Justice); Rep. Katie Porter in Washington on April 18, 2023. (Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images for Patriotic Millionaires); Rep. Barbara Lee in Oakland, Calif., on May 21, 2023. (Kimberly White/Getty Images for Demand Justice); Former Dodgers baseball player Steve Garvey in Los Angeles on October 7, 2013. Stephen Dunn/Getty Images

Four candidates running for one of California’s two U.S. Senate seats faced off at a lively televised debate in Los Angeles on topics including war in the Middle East, the border crisis, the economy, housing and homelessness, health care, and abortion Jan. 22.

The participants—Democrat U.S. Reps. Barbara Lee, Adam Schiff, and Katie Porter and Republican Steve Garvey—had qualified for the debate after landing the top four slots in a mid-December Politico/Morning Consult poll of likely primary voters, according to Fox News 11 Los Angeles, which hosted the debate with Politico.