As Democratic Rep. Adam Schiff and Republican former Dodgers baseball All-Star Steve Garvey gear up for a November runoff election for the U.S. Senate seat previously held by the late Dianne Feinstein, candidate Rep. Katie Porter faced criticism March 7 for alleging that the system to select candidates is “rigged.”
Ms. Porter, who finished third in the primary election with 14.1 percent of the vote as of Thursday afternoon, said in a March 6 statement on X that some of Mr. Schiff’s donors spent millions of dollars to “rig” the election.
“Thank you to everyone who supported our campaign and voted to shake up the status quo in Washington,” she wrote. “Because of you, we had the establishment running scared—withstanding 3 to 1 in TV spending and an onslaught of billionaires spending millions to rig this election.”…