Rep. Katie Porter, the whiteboard-wielding single mother of three who rode a wave of anti-Trump resistance and turned an Orange County district blue in 2018, fell short in her race for Senate Tuesday.
Porter’s fellow House Democrat, Rep. Adam B. Schiff, and Republican former Major League Baseball player Steve Garvey secured seats on the November ballot after finishing in the top two in California’s nonpartisan primary to replace the late Sen. Dianne Feinstein. More than two dozen candidates were competing in the race.
Porter had less than 15 percent of the vote to Garvey’s 29 percent and Schiff’s nearly 37 percent when The Associated Press made a call that Garvey had secured the second spot at 12:01 a.m. Wednesday morning. Schiff had been called the winner of the top spot a half hour earlier.
