Villaraigosa predicts no Republican upset in California’s U.S. Senate race
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Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa popped up on CNN’s ‘The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer’ Tuesday afternoon and said there’s no way the California U.S. Senate race will end in a Republican upset, a la Scott Brown in Massachusetts.
The June 8 primary features a GOP trio: multimillionaire businesswoman Carly Fiorina, Orange County Assemblyman Chuck DeVore and former Rep. Tom Campbell. But Villaraigosa said fellow Democrat Barbara Boxer is a tough campaigner and too tuned in with California voters to lose her Senate reelection bid in November, even at a time when voters have soured on incumbents.
‘I expect she’s going to have a tough campaign and ultimately prevail,’ said Villaraigosa, who was in Washington on Tuesday to lobby for federal support to accelerate construction of mass transit projects in the region.
Still, Villaraigosa acknowledged, it’s hard out there for an incumbent.
‘Without question, anybody in public service today is not doing as well as they might of last year or the year before just because so many people are out of work and they’re losing confidence in our government,’ the mayor said.
-- Phil Willon in Los Angeles
