California Senate candidates

GARVEY, SCHIFF CLASH ON ABORTION, GUNS AND TRUMP IN ONLY ONE-ON-ONE DEBATE

In summary:  In their only TV face-off before Election Day, U.S. Senate contenders Steve Garvey and Adam Schiff  tussle over immigration and other issues.

By Yue Stella Yu, Cal Matters

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Photo: U.S. Senate candidates Adam Schiff, left, and Steve Garvey, right; screenshot via C-Span

October 14, 2024 (Glendale, CA) -- The sparks started flying between U.S. Rep. Adam Schiff and former L.A. Dodgers star Steve Garvey minutes into their only one-on-one debate on October 8, as both accused each other of failing Californians. 

In an hour-long televised forum this evening for the U.S. Senate seat — held by Dianne Feinstein until her death last year — the two traded verbal jabs and clashed over a range of issues, including reproductive rights, gun control and immigration. 

Garvey, a Palm Desert Republican, portrayed Schiff as a “career politician” who has done little to serve California residents during his tenure. “This man hasn’t done anything over the last 24 years on any of these things that have given us any consistency in life,” Garvey said.

Schiff, a Burbank Democrat who has served in Congress since 2001, in turn depicted Garvey as a supporter of former President Donald Trump who has experience in professional sports, not politics. “While Mr. Garvey was signing baseballs for the last 37 years, I was seeing presidents of both parties and governors of both parties sign my bills into law,” Schiff said.


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