Rep. Adam Schiff and former Major League Baseball star Steve Garvey are headed to a November runoff to fill the U.S. Senate seat held for decades by the late Dianne Feinstein.
With more than 41% of votes counted statewide, Democrat Schiff was leading Garvey, a Republican, 36.9% to 28.9%, according to the Secretary of State Office unofficial results released Tuesday night.
Rep. Katie Porter, a Democrat, was well behind with 14.7% of the vote.
Schiff, a Los Angeles-area legislator and major antagonist to former President Donald Trump, also was ahead of Garvey — 34.0% to 30.8% — in the race to fill the remainder of Feinstein’s term, which ends in January 2025.
Feinstein passed away Sept. 29, 2023, at the age of 90.
Garvey is a former star player with the Los Angeles Dodgers and the San Diego Padres, who entered the Senate race relatively late in October.
In California’s presidential primary elections, President Joseph Biden was cruising to a massive victory for the Democratic general election spot with 90.4% of the vote.
Trump also was having a strong night, garnering 74.7% of the vote to 21.2% for former South Carolina governor Nikki Haley, his last remaining significant challenger for the general election ballot.
Several candidates from both parties previously dropped out of the race.
State Proposition 1, which would provide $6.38 billion in bonds to build mental health treatment facilities and housing for the homeless, was ahead by a small margin.
With more than 41% of the vote reported, 52.8% of voters were in favor of the statewide measure, with 47.2% opposed.
Proposition 1 was placed on the ballot by the Democrat-dominated state Legislature.
Click here for the latest results from the California Secretary of State’s Office.

