Full Coverage: The race to succeed Sen. Barbara Boxer
Sen. Barbara Boxer’s announcement that she will not seek reelection put an end to years of frustration on the part of a younger generation of California politicians who can now start elbowing their way upward in the state’s first wide-open U.S. Senate race since 1992.
California’s strongly Democratic tilt makes it likely that the party will hold the seat, but not without a fierce contest among those whose Senate ambitions have long been thwarted by Boxer and fellow Democratic incumbent Dianne Feinstein.
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Congresswoman Loretta Sanchez, the Democrat famous for bumping ultra-conservative GOP Rep.
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For the three top California Republicans running for U.S. Senate, the poll numbers look bleak.
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George “Duf” Sundheim, a Silicon Valley lawyer who led the state Republican Party during the recall of Democratic Gov.
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Watching the U.S.
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OCEANSIDE — Rocky Chavez yearned for combat duty during his 28 years in the Marines, but commanders kept him far from the battlefield.
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The contours of California’s U.S.
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As several thousand Democrats gathered in Anaheim for the state party’s annual convention, a burgeoning fight over Barbara Boxer’s Senate seat promised to dominate the weekend proceedings.
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One of the first questions facing Rep. Loretta Sanchez in her newly announced U.S.
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Kamala Harris has spent months on what looked like a glide path into the U.S.
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Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Burbank) announced Tuesday he will not enter the race for retiring Sen.
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The Republican field in next year’s U.S.
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Democratic Rep. Adam B.
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Rep. Loretta Sanchez tested themes Monday for a U.S.
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California Atty. Gen. Kamala D. Harris reported more than 2,800 contributions to her U.S.
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The announcement came swiftly, catching many by surprise: After decades in Washington, the path-breaking U.S. senator announced she would retire after 2016.
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After 14 years in Congress, Rep.
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Condoleezza Rice — Stanford professor, Soviet specialist, former U.S secretary of state — once said her dream job was commissioner of the National Football League.
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Rocky Chávez, a Republican state assemblyman from Oceanside, launched a campaign for U.S.
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California Atty. Gen. Kamala Harris, the only major candidate for the U.S.
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GOP Assemblyman Rocky Chavez told supporters that he would have a “great announcement” about his potential U.S.
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Former Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa announced Tuesday that he would not enter the race for Barbara Boxer’s seat in the U.S.
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Former Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa’s announcement Tuesday that he will not run for the U.S.
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California Atty. Gen.
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As Antonio Villaraigosa weighs whether to mount a U.S.
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While former Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and other potential candidates decide whether to enter the U.S.
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As former Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa weighs a U.S.
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Antonio Villaraigosa hit a social media milestone last month: He posted something on Facebook for the first time in 19 months, telling followers he might run for U.S.
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In the real world, Kamala Harris’ campaign for the U.S.
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Former Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa emerged as the most formidable potential rival of state Atty.
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Billionaire environmental activist Tom Steyer, who is weighing a run for the U.S.
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Maybe Antonio Villaraigosa, the former Los Angeles mayor, has edged toward a run for the newly open U.S.
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2005: Antonio Villaraigosa romps past incumbent James K.
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One by one, three U.S. senators took turns tweeting Wednesday that they were “excited” by California Atty.
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The field of candidates to replace retiring U.S. Sen.
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San Francisco billionaire Tom Steyer got a pungent sample Thursday of what awaits him if he runs for U.S.
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We had a little public do-si-do this week over whether California Atty. Gen. Kamala D. Harris or Lt.
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Environmentalists had something in their arsenal for Tuesday’s election they never did before: a billionaire benefactor willing to empty his pockets of tens of millions of dollars to bring climate change to the forefront of political debate and elect candidates committed to fighting global warming.
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Tom Steyer wants to save the planet, but first he wants to know about the U.S. Senate race in Iowa.
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The California billionaire is building a vast political network and inserting himself into elections nationwide, with a focus on fossil fuels and global warming.
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On his first day as mayor, Antonio Villaraigosa told Los Angeles that it was time to “start thinking big again.”
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A transcript of now former Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa’s interview with two Los Angeles Times political reporters.
