Loretta Sanchez has sparked up sleepy Senate race
SANTA ANA — The occasional sparks of life in California’s otherwise sleepy U.S. Senate race come courtesy of the freewheeling Loretta Sanchez — sometimes to her benefit, sometimes not.
The most talked about moment of the Oct. 5 debate with front-runner Kamala Harris, for instance, was Sanchez’s closing flourish, a hip-hop dance move called the “dab” that her makeup artist’s 9-year-old daughter showed her a few hours earlier.
It’s the type of quirky surprise that the Democratic congresswoman has regularly delivered since bursting onto the political scene in 1996, when she upset iconic Orange County conservative Congressman Bob Dornan.
But the biggest surprise of her career could come if she upsets fellow Democrat Harris, the state’s attorney general, on Nov. 8. Harris finished the primary with a 21-percentage point lead over Sanchez. Some polls show that advantage shrinking, but Harris continues to lead by double-digits in most surveys.
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And it's the only newspaper in California that has endorsed Donald Trump, so that should tell you something.
The top-two system that allows her to run in November instead of getting thumped by Kamala in a primary was the pound of flesh for which the repuke legislator sold his vote that we needed to pass a budget a few years ago. Prop 26 now allows us to pass a budget with a simple majority, but the damage is done. DINOs like Sanchez and Ro Khanna in CA17 are in a position to beat real Dems like Kamala and Mike Honda by sucking up all the repuke "lesser of two evils" votes. 
