Katie Porter has slight lead over Adam Schiff, Barbara Lee in race to replace Dianne Feinstein
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Rep. Katie Porter narrowly leads the wide open race for California’s Senate seat, a new poll reported Friday. Porter, D-Calif., was the choice of 19% of likely voters, just ahead of Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif.,, at 16% and Rep. Barbara Lee, D-Calif., at 13%, a June survey by the Public Policy Institute of California found. The other voter preferences were scattered among several candidates, topped by Republican Eric Early at 7%. Six percent were undecided. PPIC also found in a June poll that in the race for the White House, 50% of the state’s likely Republican voters support former President Do...