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from cbs news bay area this is voter's decide. >> tonight a showdown for the u.s. senate. california puts up its first republican nominee since 1988. it's a former baseball star coming out swinging against a prominent democrat. fresh faces are coming to congress. a political power player passes the baton in the east bay in a close contest to fill the shoe os after longtime silicon valley congresswoman. >> and nikki haley pulls off a surprise super tuesday win against former president trump but is it all too little too late to hold off a repeat of the 2020 race? and good evening, welcome to super

tuesday coverage on cbs news bay area, i'm juliette goodrich. >> and i'm devin fehely. >> hello, i'm sara donchey. good evening to you, the golden state has been deep blue for decades, but tonight there is some rare red atop the u.s. senate race. >> it's republican steve garvey and democrat adam schiff squaring off in november for senate for the seat left by the late dianne feinstein. katie porter and east bay and bay area congresswoman barbara lee faded to third and fourth. >> now, california is one of more than a dozen states where voters went to the polls in what could be republican challenger nikki haley's last stand against former president trump. >> we do have a team of reporters covering all of this from the local level all the way up to the presidential primaries. we do want to start, though, with the california senate race. california has not elected a republican to that office since pete wilson, as we mentioned, that was back in 1988. tonight former dodger steve garvey with a strong showing. he's going to be going up against congressman

adam schiff come november as we've been telling you tonight. our katie nielsen live in los angeles at schiff's election night party with reaction from both of the men moving on to november. an interesting night, i have to say, katie, at that watch party. >> reporter: yeah, definitely, sara. some tense moments in what was supposed to just be a victory lap for u.s. house representative member adam schiff. as he was about to declare victory in the senate race to fill the late dianne feinstein's u.s. senate seat. now, he was introduced to the stage by eric swalwell, who represents part of contra costa county in the u.s. house of representatives. schiff was only a few minutes into his victory speech when protesters interrupted, chanting ceasefire now. take a listen.

>> ceasefire now. ceasefire now. ceasefire now. >> thank you. >> reporter: schiff stopped speaking, waiting for the protesters to stop. when they didn't, his supporters started chanting his name, adam, adam, to drown out those protesters. now, schiff was eventually able to finish his speech but continued to be interrupted. >> want to acknowledge again my great gratitude to all of my wonderful supporters. i want to acknowledge the right of our protesters, and i look forward to working with you all and onward to victory in november. thank you very much, everybody. thank you. and let's go on and win this thing. on to november, everybody. and thank you. >> reporter: republican steve garvey came in second in that senate race. he will advance to the general election in november. he's a newcomer to politics after a successful

career as a major league baseball player in his younger days, but he faces significant uphill challenges, including the fact that no republican has won a statewide office since 2006 when governor arnold schwarzenegger won re-election, but garvey says he's optimistic. >> your vote was your shared belief with me that california is no longer the heartbeat of america. sadly, it's just a murmur. now, we have challenges to face up to like closing the border and responsibilities to live up to like helping the homeless off the streets and a pathway back to their dignity. and then if we do those things and more, our best days will be ahead of us with california once again being that vibrant heartbeat of america. >> reporter: schiff was endorsed early on in this race by democratic leaders like then house speaker nancy pelosi. that allowed him to raise

double the money of any of his competitors as schiff is now sitting on a campaign war chest of more than $30 million. schiff also has more statewide name recognition because of his involvement in the first impeachment proceedings against then president donald trump. now interestingly, garvey is very popular with california trump supporters, so it is going to be a very interesting race as we head into november. back to you. >> all right, katie, thank you. and joining us now to break this all down is dr. caroline heldman, a political strategist and associate professor of politics at occidental college. caroline, your big takeaways from tonight's race ? because for a long time i think the presumptive front-runners were probably katie porter and adam schiff. garvey has a late surge in the polls. >> well, this was by design. adam schiff spent $11 million on ads essentially free

spending for garvey because he wants this to be a race against a republican. democrats have a 2:1 advantage in the state of california, and so at this point essentially garvey has a snowball's chance of winning unless some extraordinary event happens and adam schiff knew this. he knew that if he had another eight months with katie porter that it could be a real race, and so essentially adam schiff just made sure that he was going to win in november unless something extraordinary happens. >> now, oftentimes on election night like tonight it is a -- it's political theater, but we got something that was a little bit unscripted tonight. we had a number of people in the audience at adam schiff's event who were chanting for -- calling for a ceasefire now. how would that issue perhaps disrupt this race? >> well, we're seeing a bit of this with the folks protesting biden, right, in michigan who are voting uncommitted. we saw that in minnesota. so we do see more of the far left element

who is willing to do disruptive things like this and adam schiff acknowledged their ability to do that, which i thought was very classy on his part. he just won as a moderate over katie porter and barbara lee, who are much further to the left than he is on most issues and certainly on the israeli -- the conflict happening in gaza. so i would anticipate that throughout this campaign we will see similar such protests given that adam schiff really is a moderate candidate on that issue. >> all right, dr. heldman, thank you so much for your analysis and your insights tonight. let's go ahead and take a look at some of the results from that race. and one of the people that was, obviously, kind of towards the back and a disappointing finish was barbara lee. you see her there passing a baton to the woman who was the front-runner for her congressional seat, which she had to give up, to vacate, in order to run for the senate seat. let's go ahead and go to, if we could -- let's look at some of these

numbers. adam schiff, he came in a tick under 36% of the total vote. steve garvey, a strong second place finish with just over 30%. katie porter and barbara lee ultimately trailing with just under 15% and just over 7% of the total vote. let's go ahead and hear from barbara lee who spoke earlier this evening. >> reporter: this is a joint watch party for representative barbara lee and latifah simon who is running town seat here. lee is skipping the party, instead she says she's flying back to washington, d.c., to do some work. she is obviously disappointed with the outcome of the race. she was working hard, campaigning, phone banking. she was at her campaign office in downtown oakland making calls to voters all the way until the polls closed. here's what she said briefly to the media. >> but you can see the disparity in the money. i mean come on, the establishment money doesn't go to a black, progressive woman, but we have people and we have low donor,

we have recurrent donors. >> reporter: we asked what her future plans are, she did not answer that question. back to you. >> da lin, thank you. now let's go to the south bay where we're watching another big congressional race. nearly a dozen candidates are vying to replace anna eshoo, who is retiring after more than 30 years representing the peninsula and the south bay. so there are 11 candidates in the running to take her seat, including former san jose mayor sam liccardo and state assembly member evan low, joe simitian, and tech entrepreneur peter dixon. so if we take a look at the numbers here, sam liccardo in the lead, 22%. joe simitian and evan low kind of close right there but joe simitian has 17.9%. so let's go live now to max darrow, and he is joining us from campbell with more on that campaign. take it away, max. >> reporter: it was a good night for former san jose mayor sam liccardo, and the energy at his watch party here in

campbell was pretty high. the former mayor actually just left just a couple of minutes ago. he stayed until the very end of the party, there for about two and a half hours speaking to supporters and people excited for a big night for former mayor sam liccardo. you know, early returns have him at the top of the pack of the 11 people who are vying to replace anna eshoo who's held the seat since 1992. liccardo, he says he's really leaning into being a representative who will be able to productively work in what really is right now somewhat of a log jammed congress. he gives credits to his competitor's expertise but says his experience as mayor of san jose prepared him to make this leap. >> you know when you serve a city of a million people, you're already working pretty hard at the national level. i spent a lot of hours on capitol hill and with them trying to help us get veterans off the street, trying to address gun violence, a whole host of challenges. so i'm pretty familiar with the turf in washington, d.c., and what i know is we got to get congress focused on the problems that

our residents are most concerned about, like homelessness and the housing crisis and utility costs. a whole host of challenges that it's not just us facing but many communities throughout the country are facing. >> reporter: district 16 voters who were here tonight say they think he is ready to make the lane from the local level to the national level. >> he delivers ever since he was a councilmember and then he moved to mayor. i think it's about time to take all his learning, all his experience to the capitol hill. >> reporter: so liccardo is hoping for this race to be somewhat of a full circle moment. earlier tonight he told me that he actually interned on anna eshoo's 1992 campaign. come november 2024, he hopes to be the one to replace her, jules? >> full circle there. max darrow, max, thank you. let's get to len ramirez with the simitian campaign the palo alto with more on that. let's get to len ramirez now, len? >> reporter: well, a very festive night for joe simitian

and his supporters here in palo alto tonight. he had his watch party at the creamery in downtown palo alto, treating about 300 or so of his supporters to milkshakes tonight. watching the returns come in, and it looked very good for mr. simitian at this point running number two behind sam liccardo and headed for that runoff. that's what it looks like tonight. mr. simitian has been a mayor of palo alto. he has been a school board member in palo alto. he has been in the state senate. he has been in the assembly. he is a current county supervisor. so many local issues over the years for mr. simitian. he said that he would have no trouble, though, pivoting to some national issues that are important to him. >> on day one we're going to restore a woman's right to choose reproductive freedom. we're going to press forward farther and faster on climate

change here in the united states and around the globe. >> reporter: mr. simitian spending time with his supporters here in palo alto tonight, thanking them for all of their support and telling them also to dig in because the race, if he is headed for the runoff, looks like it's going to be a very tough one against former mayor of san jose, sam liccardo. but simitian says it's a race he thinks he can win. >> all right, that's len ramirez. we're going to check in with more local and state races in a few minutes. but first, let's get to the race for the white house. sara donchey here in our virtual set with more on that, sara? >> i don't think anyone was expecting anything else for the most part, so let's go ahead and pull up the numbers. a clean sweep for joe biden tonight. he won the democratic contest in 15 states. there was one sign of worry for biden tonight in minnesota where he lost 20% of the vote to an uncommitted campaign over his israel policy, a major sticking

point far lot of voter who is say they may not support him because of that. president biden is the projected win over the california democratic primary after sweeping every single county in the state. a commanding victory here. in the republican primary, so far donald trump has dominated in 12 states, but the results are up in the air for utah and alaska. a big question now, where does all of this leave nikki haley? she scored a surprise upset against trump by taking vermont, but so far that was her only win today. she had promised to stay in the race until super tuesday. no word yet on her future plans. perhaps we will be hearing something about that in the coming days. so here in california these are the results for the republican primary. donald trump taking away the lead here with 76% of the vote. nikki haley still pulling in 20%. desantis, who has since dropped out of the race, 1.6%. so much more results and analysis ahead. please stay with us.

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news bay area. we want to get you to some of the big propositions in san francisco, sara? >> there were interesting ones on the ballot this time around. this one is prop b, the so-called cop tax. it would set minimum staffing levels for sfpd, create a fund for recruiting incentive, but it would be paid for by an unspecified future tax, and that could be the reason why voters seem to be turned off by this. 67% of them say they wanted nothing to do with this. then there's prop b, which would increase police power and flexibility, including fewer restrictions on when they can pursue suspects. this one is more narrow, but 59% of voters with 99% of precincts reporting say they do want this and they want the police to have these abilities. lauren toms has been following that one for us, and we've been talking tonight about how the pendulum seems to have swung in a new direction post-2020 where people do want to see at least in san francisco police have more flexibility and more tools to fight crime. >> yeah, sara, we were talking

about this just last hour, how if this was only just a couple years ago, we never would have expected san francisco voters to take such a stance. but tonight i think this is showing really clearly how san francisco voters feel about public safety. people are feeling like they want more police access, more police technology. and that's exactly what this proposition does. now, prop e aims to expand police powers by really taking away a lot of the red tape that officers have to cut through. it allows them the ability to acquire police technology this. would be drones. this would be surveillance cameras. this would be license plate readers throughout the city. and it would expand their authority to conduct car chases, vehicle pursuits. right now they have a really narrow scope for when and how they can conduct that. this would broaden that ever so slightly. that's what opponents of this proposition were worried about. they did not want to see more police pursuits. they did not want to see more surveillance. they're concerned about how this could disproportionately impact people of color, but people on the prop e -- in favor of prop

e, this of course, london breed, this is her mayoral opponents including daniel lurie and mark ferrell, and we are hearing a little bit of reaction from them tonight. this evening daniel lurie telling us in a statement that, quote, city hall's inaction and misplaced priorities have left san francisco's law enforcement agencies facing a staffing crisis. the voters spoke clearly in passing prop e to apprehend and hold repeat offenders accountable. tactics that should have been employed years ago. and we also heard from mayor london breed herself. she is saying that -- she is saying that she will enact her comprehensive plan to address the supply and demand sides of the drug crisis on our street, fully staff the police department, and speed up 911 response times throughout the city. above all, your safety will be my top priority every day, not just in an election year. so tonight this is a really big victory for london breed but also for the other mayoral candidate who is want

to show san francisco voters that they care about public safety and that public safety is a top priority. again, proponents of this measure earlier i spoke with the president of the san francisco police officers union. she says that this could really help with the chronic understaffing issues that the city has been facing. and by acquiring some of this technology, she says that it -- they don't expect it to really disproportionately impact communities of color, but rather put police officers on par with other departments across the country. >> all right, thank you so much, lauren. we appreciate it. >> all right, so staying in san francisco, it looks to have been a very good night for the city's moderate democrats and the mayor. several of the proposals fared well as did a push to change the democratic party steering committee. let's go ahead and take a look at some of the returns so far. looks like we've got about 67% -- 63% to 37%, so a wide margin

on the yes for measure f. wilson walker joined a collection of moderate democrat who is supported e and f and other measures, let's go ahead and hear from wilson. >> reporter: the obvious caveat that there are a lot of votes left to be counted in san francisco, but if you were here at moderate campaign headquarter, there was a lot of optimism on election night. >> and i just want to say proposition e and f right now are leading. proposition c is leading. and supervisor darcy, proposition b is losing. >> reporter: mayor london breed watched the early results come across the phone with a collection of san francisco's moderate democrat groups, grow sf, together sf, and san francisco democrats for change, and from the ballot measures to the dccc slate, there was a lot of reason for cheering here. >> i think it's the entire

democrats for change slate. . >> all right, let's hear it for algebra. yeah. >> reporter: the major issues, however, were the public safety measures with f, drug screening and e altered police procedures. both ahead in the early results. >> we are in the midst of a voter revolt on public safety and voters are still speaking. thank you, mayor london breed for your leadership. i am proud to be standing shoulder to shoulder with you. >> reporter: so what appears to be a very strong night for moderates in san francisco, their ballot measures and ultimately the mayor herself as she heads towards a re-election fight in november. >> all right, that's wilson walker. we have much more

quick check of the forecast on this super tuesday evening. we saw some more scattered showers across the bay area today. that activity taking a bit of a break this evening, but we do have more showers in the forecast as we head through the day on wednesday. one more day to go in this unsettled pattern, but the showers are going to be more miss than hit. they are going to fire up, especially as we head towards

midday and into the afternoon on wednesday. futurecast indicates some of those showers popping up here and there. no real organization. most of the moisture with this system is going to miss us down to the south, but grab the umbrella on the way out the door tomorrow just to be on the safe side. we do get into a calmer pattern beginning on thursday. should see plenty of sunshine by thursday and friday. let's take a look at the seven-day forecast. and we do have temperatures that are going to return to near average levels as we hit the end of the workweek and head into the weekend. at least, well, the end of the workweek. the weekend itself does look like it's going to bring another chance for showers towards this one saturday and then late in the day sunday. it's not a washout this weekend. the showers, there are plenty of chances over the next seven days. in fact, five of the seven days of the seven-day forecast have a chance of rain, but they're going to total up to less than one

let's go ahead and get you back to our super tuesday coverage and a look at the mayor's race in san jose, jules? >> yeah, looks like matt mahan will have no trouble keeping the job he's held for two years. he's up for re-election early after san jose changed its mayoral election calendar. also in santa clara county it is a razor thin race to replace supervisor cindy chavez, who has termed out. >> (upbeat music) - this is the new pix+ with the only 8:00 and 9:00 pm news, the primetime edition: weeknights on the new pix+. 44 cable 12. (bell chiming)

all right, it has been a very busy super tuesday. i think some surprises, some things we completely expected. for example, the presidential primary squarely where we thought it would be, but definitely a moderate streak, devin, locally, in san francisco, other parts of the bay area, and across the state. >> and we also got a bit of unscripted drama tonight with adam schiff and what is usually just political theater, somebody saying thank you and thanking their supporters and drowned out by ceasefire

protests. >> well, it has been a super tuesday for sure. we thank you for watching us all throughout