{"id":94994,"date":"2017-10-09T18:46:49","date_gmt":"2017-10-09T18:46:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/feinstein-will-seek-another-senate-term-in-2018-ends-speculation.html"},"modified":"2017-10-09T18:46:49","modified_gmt":"2017-10-09T18:46:49","slug":"feinstein-will-seek-another-senate-term-in-2018-ends-speculation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/political\/feinstein-will-seek-another-senate-term-in-2018-ends-speculation.html","title":{"rendered":"Feinstein will seek another Senate term in 2018, ends speculation"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Feinstein stuns SF crowd: Trump ‘can be a good president’<\/a><\/h4>\n

California senator shocks audience during interview with former Bay Area congresswoman Ellen Tauscher in San Francisco<\/p>\n

California Sen. Dianne Feinstein announced Monday that she\u2019ll seek re-election in 2018, ending speculation that she\u2019d retire amid a potential primary challenge from the Democratic Party\u2019s progressive wing.<\/p>\n

The 84-year-old Feinstein has, until this week, deflected questions about seeking a full fifth term, telling NBC\u2019s \u201cMeet the Press” on Sunday: \u201cI\u2019m in a position where I can be effective. And, hopefully, that means something to California.”<\/p>\n

Feinstein, the oldest U.S. senator, was first elected to the chamber in 1992, in a special election. She would be 91 if she was re-elected in November 2018 and served the full six-year term.<\/p>\n

Feinstein was mayor of San Francisco in the late 1970s after the assassination of Mayor George Moscone and Councilman Harvey Milk.<\/p>\n

Progressives are purportedly frustrated enough about her views on President Trump, DACA and single-payer health care to mount a challenge for her seat.<\/p>\n

She upset them last month when the Trump administration announced the dismantling of DACA, or Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, the Obama-era executive order that protects young illegal immigrants from deportation.<\/p>\n

Feinstein said she supports DACA, but acknowledged the administration\u2019s argument that the order is on shaky legal ground.<\/p>\n

Her analysis came several days after being criticized at a town hall meeting in San Francisco for expressing optimism about Trump becoming “a good president.\u201d The remark resulted in so much Democratic backlash that she issued a clarification about being \u201cunder no illusion\u201d about Trump.<\/p>\n

California Democrats until recently appeared on a nearly endless wait to rise in political circles — with Feinstein and fellow Democrat Barbara Boxer as the state\u2019s long-standing U.S. senators and fellow party member Jerry Brown serving four straight terms as governor.<\/p>\n

However, Boxer\u2019s retirement allowed former state Attorney General Kamala Harris last year to win that Senate seat. And Brown leaves in January after his fourth, and final, term.<\/p>\n

Feinstein also has continuously expressed reservations about the so-called single-payer health care plan championed by many progressives, including Vermont Independent Sen. Bernie Sanders, a 2016 Democratic presidential candidate and a potential 2020 challenger.<\/p>\n

Fox News\u2019 Chad Pergram and Joseph Weber and the Associated Press contributed to this report.\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n

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Feinstein stuns SF crowd: Trump ‘can be a good president’ California senator shocks audience during interview with former Bay Area congresswoman Ellen Tauscher in San Francisco California Sen. Dianne Feinstein announced Monday that she\u2019ll seek re-election in 2018, ending speculation that she\u2019d retire amid a potential primary challenge from the Democratic Party\u2019s progressive wing. The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[84],"class_list":["post-94994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-political","tag-political"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94994","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94994"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94994\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}