California Senate 2024 - Schiff (D) vs Garvey (R)

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Barbara Lee is too old. Adam Schiff is meh. I think that he should stay in the House (same way I feel about Ro Khanna). Katie Porter is OK.

The California Democratic Party has a weak bench.

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The California Democratic Party has a weak bench.

It doesn’t, and at least it can win elections.

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You’re right, they have no obvious rising star but they have literally forty congressmen all the state wide offices, and 32 state senators. None are amazing or truly jump out to me, but there’s plenty of very good options

I said "weak bench" because for all of the dominance of the CA Dems, there's really no politician with real star power & charisma (outside maybe Newsom? Some on here say Porter?). Also, I was mainly talking about candidates/potential candidates for this Senate seat.

I'm a New Yorker and the NY Dem bench is also weak. Fair is fair.

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I think the point of Feinstein having to go is that she is rapidly losing her mental faculties, not her age per se.

Nope, Feinstein is BOTH too old and not cognitively there.

FDR was only 3 months into his first term when she was born. It's crazy that she didn't retire in either 2012 or 2018.

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I really like Barbara Lee, but we need less elderly people in positions of power. America’s biggest problems stem from the fact that geriatrics refuse to step aside and let younger people take charge. I don’t know how true the allegations against Port are, but even if they are true, I could never support someone who is almost 80 years old unless they’re literally the only option like Biden. Except Bernie of course.

As much as this is true. I don't get how the "representation" argument for young people, which I generally agree with, isn't true for both Black people and women, especially in the Senate?

Tbch, I think the geriatric problem is inextricable from the problem of race and lack of diversity. I wish they didn't have to be pitted against each other here, but when it comes down to it, it's more troubling to me there are currently 0 Black women in the U.S. Senate than the average age, because the latter can be explained unfortunately in part by youth apathy, while the former is almost wholly consequential of social injustice and oppression.

In my opinion, there's no valid reason why states like Maryland, Virginia and Delaware don't at least have 1 Black senator and at the very least a Black woman as senator. It's 0 for 6 on both fronts.

Those are Dem-leaning states with high Black populations. But yet, all of the senators from those states are old/older White men.

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I'm glad that Fossilstein isn't running for re-election, but it's long past time for her to resign.