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RandySF

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Thu Jun 9, 2016, 11:58 PM Jun 2016

Two Democrats Win California’s Open Senate Primary

LOS ANGELES — Two Democrats will battle each other to become California’s next United States senator, after winning the top two spots in an open primary on Tuesday.

The intraparty fight between Kamala Harris, the state’s attorney general, and Loretta Sanchez, a congresswoman from Orange County, will be the first to shut out Republicans since California approved nonpartisan primaries in 2010.

Ms. Harris and Ms. Sanchez defeated a crowded field that included two former chairmen of the State Republican Party. Ms. Harris, who has received the official backing of the State Democratic Party, captured 40 percent of the vote, and Ms. Sanchez 17 percent, with 55 percent of the precincts reporting.

The campaign to replace Barbara Boxer, a Democrat who was first elected in 1992, is the first for an open Senate seat in California in more than a generation.


http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/08/us/08california-senate-primary.html?_r=0

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Two Democrats Win California’s Open Senate Primary (Original Post) RandySF Jun 2016 OP
This is the definition of a safe seat. Agnosticsherbet Jun 2016 #1
I wish we had a non-partisan primary for president nt k8conant Jun 2016 #2
CA has a tough choice to make, IMO. BlueMTexpat Jun 2016 #3
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