ANALYSIS: Lee’s Senate Run Shows Major Divide in California Democrat Party

Rep. Barbara Lee (D-Calif.) announcing her Senate run on Feb. 21 highlighted a schism in the California Democrat Party.
Lee joined the Democrat field looking to succeed Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), who has been in the upper congressional chamber since 1992.
Feinstein represents a California Democrat Party that looks drastically different than when she arrived in Washington.
The shift is so noticeable that the California Democrat Party even refused to endorse her re-election in 2018.
Feinstein, 89, has gone against her party on multiple occasions over the past few years.
She has been against the far-left Green New Deal, telling children who came into her Washington office demanding she votes for it that “there’s no way to pay for it.”…}