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If Dianne Feinstein won't run in 2018 it will be interesting race to watch as I imagine there will be a number of new interesting candidates.

• dmead 10y ago
  does anyone think she won't pick her successor?
  • vkou 10y ago
    She can pick all who she likes, but as the Tea Party has demonstrated, it's possible for small groups of people to dislodge well-funded, well-connected incumbents via the primaries.
• hyperbovine 10y ago
  I thought the same when Boxer announced she was retiring, and yet Harris basically walked away with it merely by announcing she was going to run. I was shocked and a bit appalled that we couldn't even have a serious race for an open senate seat in the most populous state in the nation. (Sanchez, for all her efforts, was never even a contender.)
• DrScump 10y ago
  You could see her run regardless, just to save party contributors money if nothing else (she would likely win without having to campaign or spend). Then, she could quit and cut a deal for who would succeed her: if she quits right after the election, Brown would appoint a two-year replacement; if she quit after the new governor is seated, s/he would make that appointment. Were she younger, I think she'd run for Governor; if she won, she would make that replacement appointment herself.