Primary Election 2016
CFT endorses Kamala Harris for U.S. Senate
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Below is the complete list of state and federal races in which CFT has endorsed. Candidate names followed by an asterisk (*) indicate incumbents.
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U.S. SENATE
Kamala Harris
U.S. CONGRESS
CD 2 Jared Huffman*
CD 5 Mike Thompson*
CD 6 Doris Matsui*
CD 9 Jerry McNerney*
CD 11 Mark DeSaulnier*
CD 12 Nancy Pelosi*
CD 13 Barbara Lee*
CD 14 Jackie Speier*
CD 15 Eric Swalwell*
CD 17 Mike Honda*
CD 18 Anna Eshoo*
CD 19 Zoe Lofgren*
CD 20 Jimmy Panetta
CD 21 Emilio Huerta
CD 24 Salud Carbajal
CD 27 Judy Chu*
CD 28 Adam Schiff*
CD 29 Tony Cárdenas*
CD 30 Brad Sherman*
CD 32 Grace Napolitano*
CD 33 Ted Lieu*
CD 34 Xavier Becerra*
CD 35 Norma Torres*
CD 37 Karen Bass*
CD 38 Linda Sánchez*
CD 40 Lucille Roybal-Allard*
CD 41 Mark Takano*
CD 43 Maxine Waters*
CD 44 Isadore Hall, III
CD 46 Joe Dunn
CD 47 Alan Lowenthal*
CD 51 Juan Vargas*
CD 53 Susan Davis*
CALIFORNIA SENATE
SD 3 Mariko Yamada
SD 5 Cathleen Galgiani*
SD 9 Nancy Skinner
SD 11 Jane Kim
CALIFORNIA ASSEMBLY
AD 2 Jim Wood*
AD 4 Dan Wolk
AD 7 Kevin McCarty*
AD 8 Ken Cooley*
AD 9 Jim Cooper*
AD 11 Jim Frazier, Jr.*
AD 13 Susan Eggman*
AD 14 Mae Torlakson
AD 15 Tony Thurmond*
AD 17 David Chiu*
AD 18 Rob Bonta*
AD 19 Phil Ting*
AD 20 Bill Quirk*
AD 21 Adam Gray*
AD 22 Kevin Mullin*
AD 25 Kansen Chu*
AD 27 Ash Kalra
AD 28 Evan Low*
AD 29 Mark Stone*
AD 30 Karina Cervantez Alejo
AD 31 Joaquin Arambula
AD 32 Rudy Salas*
AD 35 Dawn Ortiz-Legg
AD 36 Darren Parker
AD 37 Monique Limón
AD 40 Abigail Medina
AD 41 Chris Holden*
AD 43 Ardy Kassakhian
AD 44 Jacqui Irwin*
AD 45 Matt Dababneh*
AD 46 Adrin Nazarian*
AD 47 Cheryl Brown*
AD 48 Bryan Urias
AD 49 Edwin Chau*
AD 50 Richard Bloom*
AD 51 Jimmy Gomez*
AD 52 Freddie Rodriguez*
AD 53 Miguel Santiago*
AD 54 Sebastian Ridley-Thomas*
AD 57 Ian Calderon*
AD 58 Cristina Garcia*
AD 59 Reginald Jones-Sawyer*
AD 61 Jose Medina*
AD 63 Anthony Rendon*
AD 64 Michael Gipson*
AD 65 Sharon Quirk-Silva
AD 66 Al Muratsuchi
AD 69 Tom Daly*
AD 70 Patrick O’Donnell*
AD 78 Todd Gloria
AD 79 Shirley Weber*
AD 80 Lorena Gonzalez*
SD 13 Jerry Hill*
SD 15 Jim Beall*
SD 17 Bill Monning*
SD 19 Hannah-Beth Jackson*
SD 21 Jonathon Ervin
SD 25 Anthony Portantino
SD 29 Sukhee Kang
SD 31 Richard Roth*
SD 33 Ricardo Lara*
SD 35 Warren Furutani
SD 39 Toni Atkins