Representative Adam Schiff (D-CA-30) will reportedly break from his California campaign for U.S. Senate to travel to Arizona for a joint campaign event held by Representative Ruben Gallego (D-AZ-03).
Schiff will reportedly travel to Arizona to help Democrats in tough elections, according to Punchbowl News. The newspaper reported on Monday that a person familiar with the Californian’s travel plans confirmed he plans to appear with Gallego.
The California Democrat is also reportedly planning to appear at campaign events for Senators Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) and Jacky Rosen (D-NV), who both face challengers, but the Arizona campaign event was announced as Arizona polls appear to have tightened following the dominant debate performance by Gallego’s Republican opponent, Kari Lake.
Responding to Schiff’s purported plans to campaign with Gallego, the National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) declared Schiff an “anti-Trump, California radical.”
NRSC spokesman Tate Mitchell stated, “Adam Schiff ran the first sham impeachment trial against President Trump, and Ruben Gallego called Trump voters ‘dumb’ and the ‘worst people in the world.’ Gallego isn’t running to represent all Arizonans; he’s running to be a foot soldier for the radical left.”
Lake offered a similar response in a post to the social media platform X, where the Republican wrote, “Trump-hater [Schiff] joins Trump-hater [Gallego] to campaign against [Lake].”
Trump-hater @AdamSchiff joins Trump-hater @RubenGallego to campaign against @KariLake…
"Birds of a feather flock together" -Old English Proverb pic.twitter.com/BmzDFgNHQU
— Kari Lake (@KariLake) October 15, 2024
While Gallego has been accused of moderating his political positions in a bid to win in November, and Lake has accused his campaign of running an “extreme makeover version” of Gallego, the event with Schiff will not be the Democrat’s first of this campaign cycle.
Punchbowl News reported in July that Gallego attended a “big California brunch” held by Schiff in Los Angeles, where Schiff raised more than $700,000 for Gallego and other Democratic candidates and incumbents seeking reelection to the U.S. Senate.
After news of that meeting between Schiff and Gallego, the NRSC claimed the Arizona Democrat “is running to represent his friends on the far-left fundraising circuit in the U.S. Senate, not his home state” and declared, “Arizona voters can’t trust him to fight for their interests.”
Though last year Schiff was censured over his role in pushing lies and false claims about collusion between former President Donald Trump and Russia during the 2016 presidential election, he is the favorite to win his Senate race, which is not considered competitive.
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Tom Pappert is the lead reporter for The Tennessee Star, and also reports for The Pennsylvania Daily Star and The Arizona Sun Times. Follow Tom on X/Twitter. Email tips to [email protected].
Photo “Ruben Gallego” by Ruben Gallego. Background Photo “Ruben Gallego Event” by Ruben Gallego.
