CA-SEN: It looks like Harris (D) vs. Sanchez (D) in November
Democrats Kamala Harris and Loretta Sanchez, campaigning for the U.S. Senate in California, are poised to meet in a fall rematch, according to a new poll.
Harris, the state attorney general, and Sanchez, a veteran congresswoman from Orange County, continue to claim the top two positions in the 34-candidate contest to succeed retiring U.S. Sen. Barbara Boxer. If the dynamics of the relatively sleepy race hold, the Democrats would meet again in the general election on Nov. 8.
The Public Policy Institute of California poll, released late Wednesday, had Harris leading with support from 27 percent of likely voters. Sanchez was at 19 percent, while Republican Tom Del Beccaro was a distant third at 8 percent, followed by GOP candidates Ron Unz (6 percent) and Duf Sundheim (3 percent).
Despite months of campaigning, and a recent burst of late TV ads from Harris and Sanchez, a third of likely primary voters are undecided, the same percentage that was ambivalent in a March PPIC poll. Among Republicans, nearly half are undecided, along with 35 percent of independents.
Analysts predicted the large numbers of equivocal voters would decrease as the race for California’s first open U.S. Senate seat in nearly a quarter-century neared. On Wednesday, Mark Baldassare, the president and chief executive of PPIC, said he was among those who now were startled to see such a high number of undecided voters.
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