The former House intel chairman said Democrats “need a fighter.”
The polarizing 62-year-old will face fellow Reps. Katie Porter, 49, Barbara Lee, 76, and potentially incumbent Sen. Dianne Feinstein, 89, in the Democratic primary.
McCarthy on Tuesday banned Schiff from the intelligence committee, which the Democrat had chaired for the past four years, for allegedly lying about the existence of evidence showing Trump conspired with Russia to win the 2016 election. Schiff represents a safely Democratic House district that includes West Hollywood and parts of Burbank and Glendale north of downtown Los Angeles.
Lee, who has not yet formally launched her Senate campaign, represents Oakland and would be just the third black woman elected to the upper chamber in US history.
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