Adam Schiff has huge lead over Steve Garvey in Calif Senate race [View all]

61% Schiff.
37%Garvey

They’re vying for the Senate seat now held by Sen. Laphonza Butler, a Democrat appointed to the job last year after Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., died. The poll found Schiff gets a big boost from independents, who preferred him 58% to 38%. Party loyalists tended to stay with the nominees, as 92% of Democrats backed Schiff and 88% of Republicans preferred Garvey.

But Democrats outnumber Republicans in California, and the GOP hasn’t won a statewide race since 2006. Schiff has another advantage. Though he and Garvey raised roughly the same amount of money from mid-February to late March, the last reporting period, Schiff had $4.8 million on hand. Garvey had $1.6 million. POLLING SHOWS MAJOR ‘ENTHUSIASM GAP’ Elsewhere, the PPIC survey found that President Joe Biden (54%) is maintaining a comfortable lead over former President Donald Trump (31%) in California, though 11% of likely voters say they want someone else (unspecified) to be president.

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