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Analysis: How Trump propelled Schiff to the general election — and likely a Senate seat

Adam Schiff speaks to the crowd during his election night party in The Avalon on Tuesday, March 5, 2024, in Los Angeles.

LOS ANGELES — For all of California’s ills and hardships, nothing animated the state’s left-leaning electorate in this year’s Senate race more than the specter of former President Trump returning to the White House.

The omnipresence of Trump’s legal travails and his dominance in the Republican presidential primary ensure his shadow over the 2024 election will remain through November, and only increase Rep. Adam B. Schiff's already heady chances of become California’s newest U.S. senator.

As the lead prosecutor in the first impeachment trial of Trump in the House of Representatives, the Burbank Democrat — once mocked by the former president as a “little pencil neck” — used Trump’s animus to propel himself to national fame and a top-two finish in California’s competitive Senate primary election on Tuesday.

Schiff already has signaled plans to use the ample contempt for Trump among most California voters to skewer his

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