Democratic Rep. Adam Schiff leads the race for California’s open U.S. Senate seat.

A poll from ActiVote found that Schiff is leading Steve Garvey, a Republican who used to play first base for the Los Angeles Dodgers and the San Diego Padres.

“ActiVote’s October 19, 2024, California U.S. Senate poll shows that Democratic candidate Representative Adam Schiff leads his Republican opponent Steve Garvey by 26.8%. The poll was among 400 likely voters, has an average expected error of 4.9%, and was in the field between October 1, 2024, and October 18, 2024, with a median field date of October 10,” the outlet reported.

“Schiff dominates among left-leaning voters (97%) while Garvey gets only 89% of his core constituency on the right. The voters in the center lean towards Schiff. More importantly, far more people in California lean left than right. Thus, not only does Schiff have stronger support among his base than Garvey has among his, Schiff’s base is significantly larger than Garvey’s,” the outlet added.

“In our previous poll (September 21, 2024) Schiff led by 25.4%. In the poll before that (August 12, 2024), Schiff led by 32.6%. In the 2022 California Senate election, Democratic candidate Alex Padillo beat his Republican opponent Mark Meuser by 22.2%,” the outlet continued.

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Mark DiCamillo, head of UC Berkeley’s Institute of Governmental Studies Poll, said, “Because Democrats and liberals outnumber Republicans and conservatives in California by wide margins, this gives Schiff a considerable edge in the race.”

Roughly 55% of those who answered said that a candidate’s views on abortion were important to their vote. Schiff, who is 64 years old, has spoken out in favor of abortion rights and has asked the federal government to protect the process.

Garvey has said that he is personally against abortion but would “support the voice of the people of California” on the matter.

Steve Garvey says Adam Schiff is guilty of treason for pushing the phony Russian Collusion hoax and lying to the American people. pic.twitter.com/pOHG456w35

— Martin Walsh (@MWalshUS) October 21, 2024

In an interview with the New York Post, Garevy spoke about surprising everyone in the jungle primary in California in March and shared his cautiously hopeful vision of the world.

Garvey expressed his desire to encourage harmony and decorum in the Senate, suggesting that California might be ready to send a political heavyweight to Washington in the fall.

“I’ll go to all 99 senators, I’ll go to their office, I will stick out my hand, I will say, ‘I want to work with you for the good of your state and mind and for this country and the world, and let’s do this together,’” the Republican said of his plans on Capitol Hill.

“We’ve come a long way, but I think we got a long way to go,” Garvey said, emphasizing his status as a political outsider and commitment to being a one-term lawmaker if elected.

“First of all, I will demand an audit for where the $20 to $25 billion went for the homeless in California. And I think that’s one of the great humanitarian disasters. We’ve gone to all of the inner cities, Sacramento and San Francisco and San Diego,” Garvey said, adding that the streets in these cities are “almost unwalkable.”

“Since day one, I’ve ran a different type of campaign, I have not taken or asked for a single political endorsement, the only endorsements I want are from the law enforcement community and first responders,” he said in a statement provided to The Post. “My focus is, and always has been, on the issues that truly matter to Californians — affordability, public safety, securing the border, fixing the homeless crisis, and restoring California’s leadership.”

“It’s a very narrow path in California, a one-party state. Such a disparity in registration. But what we did to get through the primary, I think shocked a lot of people, and we’re gonna win this. I can’t tell you exactly how we’re gonna do it today, but we’ve got a pretty good plan,” he told The Post.