US Senate candidates Adam Schiff, Katie Porter rally for SF votes ahead of primary

Here at home, the candidates are hitting crunch time, doing everything they can to become California's next U.S. Senator. After the passing of longtime Senator Dianne Feinstein from San Francisco, we're seeing the Bay Area play an important role in the final days before the primary. ABC 7 News reporter Ryan Curry has his eye on the race. In less than 48 hours, polls will open in California for Tuesday's primary. On Sunday night, Adam Schiff and Katie Porter made one last final push to get Bay Area voters to check their names in the ballot box. It is so important that you are engaged. It is so important that you're going to go out and vote. We do not have the luxury of disengagement. What we saw today was a huge turnout here in San Francisco of people of all different ages. All of the young people I talked to have not yet put their ballot in, but are going to do so. The newest polling out of this weekend from UC Berkeley's Institute of Governmental Studies shows Republican Steve Garvey in a statistical tie with Democratic Representative Adam Schiff. Representative Katie Porter trails with East Bay Representative Barbara Lee falling behind. At her event and admission, Porter said supporters of Garvey are spending big money to get her to lose. We have a handful of billionaires who are literally spending millions to try to prevent me from getting to the Senate. Why would they do that? It's because they don't want someone who's going to address the income inequality that we see in this country. They don't want someone who's going to stand up for workers and consumers. A ticket of two Democrats on the November ballot would ensure the California Senate seat remains blue, whereas a Republican versus a Democratic race could lead to millions more in campaign spending for the rest of the year. Representative Schiff received endorsements from some of the state's top Democrats, including Speaker Emeritus Nancy Pelosi. Being a heavy favorite, Schiff says he is prepared for whoever he might have to go against after Tuesday. We feel good about where we are and the team we built and the support we're getting. But if we're successful on Tuesday, as I hope and believe we will be, we'll be ready for November. We reached out to Steve Garvey's campaign and they declined to comment. They posted on X Sunday afternoon urging Californians to vote for him come Tuesday. Representative Schiff and Porter say a strong voter turnout could lead to those two competing in November, but they expect the numbers to be close. We're doing everything we can to change that. That's part of why we're going up and down the state, going to every media market and community we can to urge people to get out and vote. The stakes are just too high. I think every pollster would tell you low turnout elections are surprising. Look, I've won before when the polls had me down at this point, and so I've done this before and pulled it out. I think it's going to take time for every last vote to be counted. In San Francisco, Ryan Curry, ABC 7 News.