One of his main opponents is 61-year-old Democratic Congressman Ami Bera. Bera is a medical doctor and has represented parts of Sacramento for more than a decade. \u201cI appreciate the young people that are engaged in wanting to run. But Congress is a lot more than just yelling loudly,\u201d Bera said. \u201cIt\u2019s also about the art of negotiation, the art of being able to put policy together, the art of getting to 218 votes so you can move legislation through the House.\u201d<\/p>\n
Bera said that\u2019s why he\u2019s running again because he has the experience to make that happen. He said the most important task right now is for the Dems to reclaim the house, in order to make people\u2019s lives easier.<\/p>\n
Democrat\u00a0Xavier Becerra<\/a>\u00a0and Republican\u00a0Steve Hilton<\/a>\u00a0are leading the crowded field for\u00a0California governor<\/a>\u00a0in a new poll, which finds Democrat\u00a0Tom Steyer<\/a>\u00a0trailing the top two candidates with less than a week remaining to vote in the primary election.<\/p>\n The\u00a0survey released Wednesday night<\/a> by the Public Policy Institute of California is the latest poll to indicate that it\u2019s highly unlikely the state will end up with two Republicans advancing to a November runoff, something Democrats had feared this spring when party support was fractured among an unsettled, crowded field of candidates.\u00a0It also shows Becerra\u00a0continuing his surge to the front<\/a>, despite being the target of debate attacks and critical ads, as well as Steyer\u2019s historic self-funding wave.<\/p>\n Becerra, former U.S. Health and Human Services secretary under President Joe Biden, leads the poll with 23% support among likely voters, followed by Hilton, a former Fox News commentator and businessman, at 20%.\u00a0Steyer, a billionaire former hedge fund manager turned progressive activist, garnered 15% support, while Republican Riverside County Sheriff\u00a0Chad Bianco<\/a>\u00a0and former Orange County Rep.\u00a0Katie Porter<\/a>, a Democrat, rounded out the top five at 13% and 12% respectively.\u00a0\u201cThis is the first poll that we\u2019ve done that showed with some clarity that we have two candidates with more than 20% of the vote \u2014 one a Democrat, one a Republican,\u201d PPIC survey director Mark Baldassare said. \u201cThere\u2019s always the possibility that we end up with two Democrats [in the November runoff], but it\u2019s much more likely at this point that we have a Democrat and a Republican.\u201d<\/p>\n Democrats have largely rallied around Becerra, who was stuck in the single digits in the PPIC poll as recently as early April, after East Bay Rep. Eric Swalwell\u00a0dropped out of the race<\/a> amid allegations of sexual assault and harassment against him.\u00a0\u201cSwalwell\u2019s exit and the circumstances surrounding it led to support for Becerra \u2014 who has experience in Sacramento, unlike really any other of the major candidates, and spoke to Democrats about something that really mattered to them, which was that he had experience taking on Donald Trump,\u201d Baldassare said.\u00a0Hilton likewise surged further ahead of Bianco among Republican voters after President Donald Trump\u00a0endorsed him<\/a>\u00a0in early April. That\u2019s despite the latest PPIC poll also finding a sharp drop in the number of Republicans saying the U.S. is going in the right direction \u2014 down to 50%, from 64% in PPIC\u2019s\u00a0February survey<\/a>.<\/p>\n California Governor Gavin Newsom has signed legislation to ban law enforcement from interfering in elections ahead of the state\u2019s primary next week. The bill, SB73<\/a>, was authored after Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco, who is also running for governor, seized hundreds of thousands of ballots earlier this year.<\/a><\/p>\n The new law makes it a crime for law enforcement authorities to seize ballots from election officials. It also bans them from accessing voting equipment and lists without a court order. The law directs the California Department of Justice to give local election workers guidance on responding to law enforcement.<\/p>\n Newsom said the law strengthens election integrity amid challenges from local and federal officials. \u201cWe have to clarify the rules of engagement. That\u2019s why this legislation is important,\u201d said Newsom. \u201cThere are fines associated with this and jail time\u2026 three years.\u201d
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