There are no single mothers in the U.S. Senate. There is one in the House of Representatives, and that’s Katie Porter.

By most accounts, the 2024 U.S. Senate race is Rep. Adam Schiff’s to lose.

And why wouldn’t it be? He’s from Los Angeles County but also has the support of San Francisco’s House speaker emerita, Nancy Pelosi, has almost all of the California Democratic congressional caucus lined up and is a national media star because of his leadership on the Trump impeachment efforts.

What’s missing? Not much, really, but he’s still getting a vigorous primary election challenge from two women, one of whom is Rep. Katie Porter of Irvine.

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Schiff would be a lot like most of the other U.S. senators, not to discredit his career in any way whatsoever: older, white, male, lawyer and all that. But women have represented California in the Senate since 1992, until Kamala Harris was elected vice president in 2020, vacating the seat previously held by Sen. Barbara Boxer.

There are no single mothers in the U.S. Senate. There is one in the House of Representatives, and that’s Porter.

If Porter wants some traction, there it is. Talk about that.

She doesn’t have to say anything else. She doesn’t even have to directly appeal to single mothers, mothers as a general concept will do.

She doesn’t have to hip-check Schiff or find some minor policy difference between herself and Rep. Barbara........

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