A new Field Poll shows that among the limited number of Californians who are likely to participate in next year’s primary elections, 19% prefer Attorney General Kamala Harris to replace outgoing Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-CA)–which is enough to lead the race.
Rival U.S. Senate candidates Rep. Loretta Sanchez (D-CA) and California Attorney General Kamala Harris have drawn the ire of the California Democratic Party’s Native American Caucus. Sanchez offended members with a “war whoop” during a speech Saturday at the California Democrats Convention, and Harris is in trouble over her stance on tribal lands.
A gaffe by Rep. Loretta Sanchez (D-CA) this weekend may have fatally wounded her campaign bid for outgoing Sen. Barbara Boxer’s (D-CA) seat after she made a war whoop sound and gesture while telling delegates and supporters about an ‘Indian-American.’
ANAHEIM, California — During a closed session with the press corps at the California Democrats Convention on Saturday, Attorney General Kamala Harris fielded questions from Breitbart News and several other news outlets about her bid for outgoing Sen. Barbara Boxer’s (D-CA) Senate seat.
ANAHEIM, California — Two powerful female California Democrats vying for outgoing Sen. Barbara Boxer’s (D-CA) Senate seat, Attorney General Kamala Harris and Rep. Loretta Sanchez, nearly went head-to-head this past weekend at the California Democrats Convention.
A leading Democrat is in trouble after mocking Native Americans at the California Democrats’ Convention on Saturday, whose keynote speaker was left-wing U.S. Senate Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), who claims dubious Native American roots.
ANAHEIM, California—Mention of 2016 Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton has been noticeably absent from California’s 2015 Democrat convention as the party faithful flocked to the Saturday speech from Senator Elizabeth Warren, considered by many a Clinton alternative.
Rep. Loretta Sanchez (D-CA) has formally announced that she will run for the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by a retiring Barbara Boxer (D-CA) in 2016. She will challenge California Attorney General Kamala Harris, who was the first to declare her candidacy earlier this year, and had already begun raising millions of dollars in the hopes of clearing the field of rivals.
Rep. Loretta Sanchez (D-CA) inadvertently revealed her plans to run against Attorney General Kamala Harris in a bid for retiring Sen. Barbara Boxer’s (D-CA) seat on Tuesday,then quickly changed course suggesting her campaign “mistakenly” sent an email to her supporters. The announcement was quickly retracted.
Harris stated that she may be able to wipe out student loans through a “closed-school loan discharge”, a rule that provides students with debt relief if they cannot complete their education because their school closed. But “closed-school loan discharge” means former students are not eligible for debt relief, and students that try to transfer with completed class credits lose their eligibility for any debt relief.
Former California Republican Party chair Thomas Del Beccaro announced Sunday that he will seek the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by incumbent liberal Democrat Barbara Boxer upon her retirement in 2017. Del Beccaro is the second major Republican running for the seat, which is also being contested by Assemblymember Rocky Chavez (R-Oceanside).
As Attorney General Kamala Harris has gone unchallenged in her candidacy for Barbara Boxer’s Senate seat, speculation has focused on whether a Latino candidate who could more effectively represent the needs of the state’s large Latino population would emerge to run for the office. On Monday, Rep. Loretta Sanchez will speak at a luncheon of the Democratic Foundation of Orange County, possibly announcing her candidacy, according to The Orange County Register.
California’s chief law officer, Attorney General Kamala Harris, declared this week, “an undocumented immigrant is not a criminal,” a statement in direct contradiction to federal law.
U.S. Senate candidate Kamala Harris is said to have her eyes on the U.S. presidency over the long term–but is declining to endorse Hillary Clinton, the presumptive Democratic nominee who has a chance to be elected the first female president in 2016. In a recent interview with the San Francisco Chronicle’s Carla Marinucci, Harris said she is “very excited that we might have a woman as president of the United States,” but put the hard breaks on endorsing the former First Lady.
California Attorney General and U.S. Senate candidate Kamala Harris (D) has decided to defend a century-old ban against handgun advertising that likely violates the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution–as a way of violating the Second.
California attorney general Kamala Harris (D) on Monday reported raising $2.5 million in her bid for outgoing Sen. Barbara Boxer’s seat in 2016.
alifornia Attorney General Kamala Harris could soon have a serious competitor in the race for outgoing Senator Barbara Boxer’s seat. After announcing that she is “seriously considering” running for the U.S. Senate in 2016, multiple congressional sources have revealed that Loretta Sanchez could announce her candidacy after Easter, according to Politico.
The Hillary Clinton email scandal has shined a bright light on the use of private email accounts by elected officials and prompted a survey by the Associated Press into the use of said email accounts by California’s four legislative leaders and eight top elected officers.
On Wednesday, California Attorney General Kamala Harris filed a motion with the Superior Court in Sacramento to stop the so-called “Sodomite Suppression Act” from being placed on the ballot in the state.
California Attorney General Kamala Harris, an announced candidate for Barbara Boxer’s Senate seat in 2016, may have to prepare a title and 100-word summary of a ballot initiative titled the “Sodomite Suppression Act,” which calls for anyone participating in homosexual sexual acts to be shot to death by a bullet to the head.
Former Los Angeles mayor Antonio Villaraigosa has decided not to run for the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by liberal Democrat Barbara Boxer after 2016. With strong support among Latino voters in California, Villaraigosa was seen as a major potential threat to Attorney General Kamala Harris, who was the first to declare for the seat.
Former GOP Congressman David Dreier may throw his hat into the ring to replace liberal Democrat Barbara Boxer in the U.S. Senate, according to his spokesman, Mark Harmsen.
Despite the presence of Republican presidential contenders in the Golden State this weekend, a pair of Field Polls released late last week look grim for the GOP. One shows President Barack Obama’s approval rating among likely voters in the Golden State rising to 57%, “the best appraisal of Obama in over two years by Californians.” The other shows that fewer than one in five Californians approve of Congress, and a near-majority say Republican control of both houses of Congress is a bad thing.
California attorney general Kamala Harris, who recently announced a run to replace outgoing Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-CA) next year, said Wednesday that she is “not morally opposed” to marijuana legalization in the state, calling it “an inevitability.”
The leader in the race to replace retiring U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA) in America’s most liberal state is… Republican Condoleezza Rice, according to a new Field Poll released Wednesday. Rice, the former Secretary of State and Stanford don, is backed by 49% of voters–ahead of Attorney General Kamala Harris, the liberal Democrat who was the first to declare.
