User:Iridona/sandbox/United States Senate election in California, 2018

The 2018 United States Senate elections of California is an election to be held on November 6, 2018.

Background
Four-term Democratic Senator Dianne Feinstein won a special election in 1992 and was elected to full terms in 1994, 2000, 2006, and 2012. She won re-election in 2012 with 62.5% of the vote, taking the record for the most popular votes in any U.S. Senate election in history, having received 7.75 million votes. Feinstein is the Ranking Member of the Select Committee on Intelligence. She will be 85 years old in 2018.

If Feinstein retires, potential Democratic candidates include Governor Jerry Brown, former U.S. Secretary of Labor Robert Reich, Lieutenant Governor Gavin Newsom, California Attorney General Kamala Harris, California State Treasurer John Chiang, U.S. Congresswoman Linda Sanchez, U.S. Congresswoman Judy Chu, U.S. Congressman Tony Cardenas, U.S. Congressman Pete Aguilar, U.S. Congressman Ted Lieu, U.S. Congressman Xavier Becerra, U.S. Congresswoman Norma Torres, U.S. Congressman Raul Ruiz, U.S. Congressman Mark Takano, U.S. Congresswoman Karen Bass, former Mayor of Los Angeles Antonio Villaraigosa, Mayor of Los Angeles Eric Garcetti and California Secretary of State Alex Padilla.