Rep. Barbara Lee not shifting ahead to Normal Election for California Senate seat

Supporters held a joint watch party in downtown Oakland Tuesday night for U.S. Rep. Barbara Lee and Lateefah Siman, who is running to replace Lee.

While Lee's campaign aides attended the party, Lee skipped them. Instead, she said she would fly back to Washington DC to work.

She was disappointed with the outcome of the race and finished in fourth place. Late Tuesday night, CBS News predicted that Lee will not advance to the November general election.

Before the polls closed, Lee joined her volunteers at her downtown campaign office to urge voters to vote for her. Before leaving the campaign office on Tuesday evening, she spoke about the challenges posed by the Senate race.

“You could see the inequality in money, I mean, come on. Establishment money is not going to a black progressive woman. But we have people, we have donors, we have recurring donors, we have people who have never donated to campaigns before,” said Rep. Lee.

She only answered two questions from the press. Reporters asked her about her future plans, to which she gave no answer.

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Da Lin is an award-winning journalist at KPIX 5 News. He joined KPIX 5 in 2012 but has covered Bay Area news since 2007. Da grew up in Oakland and covered the news for five years at three other television stations in Texas before returning to the Bay Area. Southern and Central California. He also reported for KRON 4 for five years.

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