De Leon captures California's anti-Trump furor, but struggles to gain traction in run to oust Feinstein
LOS ANGELES - No one needs to tell Kevin de Leon that his campaign to unseat U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein is a long shot.
He's reminded all the time. Clifford Tasner, a liberal activist, approached De Leon at a Bel Air synagogue on a recent Saturday and offered to make him a video.
"You've got to throw a bunch of stuff at the wall and see what sticks," Tasner told him. "Anything that raises your profile, that people circulate in social media, that's clever and funny and engaging, it can't hurt."
The state senator thanked Tasner for the earnest advice. But De Leon well knows that in a state with 19 million voters, it takes a lot more than a YouTube hit to oust an entrenched incumbent who clobbered her last few challengers.
De Leon, 51, casts himself as a leader of the California resistance to
