{"id":1938674,"date":"2023-05-26T10:25:22","date_gmt":"2023-05-26T14:25:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/more-than-two-thirds-of-california-voters-say-feinstein-not-fit-for-office-poll\/"},"modified":"2023-05-26T10:27:53","modified_gmt":"2023-05-26T14:27:53","slug":"more-than-two-thirds-of-california-voters-say-feinstein-not-fit-for-office-poll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/more-than-two-thirds-of-california-voters-say-feinstein-not-fit-for-office-poll\/","title":{"rendered":"Most Californian voters believe Feinstein is unfit for office, according to a poll."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fmore-than-two-thirds-of-california-voters-say-feinstein-not-fit-for-office-poll%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1938674&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>California Voters Say Sen. Feinstein Unfit for Office, Poll Shows<\/h2>\n<p>A new poll conducted by UC Berkeley\u2019s Institute of Governmental Studies reveals that more than two-thirds of voters in California believe that Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) is no longer fit to serve in the Senate. The poll, which surveyed 7,465 registered voters, found that 67% of respondents believe that Feinstein&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fox-news-cavuto-second-case-of-covid-19-nearly-killed-me\/\" title=\"Fox News\u2019 Cavuto: Second Case Of COVID-19 Nearly Killed Me\">latest illness<\/a>, which has left her in a wheelchair, has rendered her unfit for office. <\/p>\n<p>When asked if they agreed with the statement, \u201cFeinstein\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/more-than-two-thirds-of-california-voters-say-feinstein-not-fit-for-office-poll\/\" title=\"Most Californian voters believe Feinstein is unfit for office, according to a poll.\">latest illness underlines<\/a> the fact that she is no longer fit to continue serving in the U.S. Senate,\u201d 42% of respondents said she should resign. Another 27% said Feinstein should serve in the Senate until the end of her term in 2025, while 31% said they were undecided.<\/p>\n<h3>Feinstein&#8217;s Health and Public Scrutiny<\/h3>\n<p>Feinstein, 89, missed weeks of Senate votes after contracting shingles, which led to Ramsay Hunt syndrome, facial paralysis, and hearing loss. She also suffered encephalitis, which is swelling of the brain. When she finally returned to work two months later, she was in a wheelchair. However, she and her staff claim she\u2019s just fine \u2014 and they\u2019re going to great lengths to shield the senator\u2019s health from public scrutiny.<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, a staff photographer for The Los Angeles Times wrote that he was \u201cshouted at\u201d when he tried to photograph Feinstein. The photographer also claimed Senate security is going to great lengths to protect Feinstein from the press.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor two days in a row last week, the Senate sergeant-at-arms office has said her arrival at the Capitol \u2018is closed press,\u2019 shutting doors and using the Capitol police to chase journalists out of hallways and public spaces. This unprecedented act of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/feinsteins-staff-tried-to-hide-her-wheelchair-form-human-barrier-to-shield-her-from-media-report\/\" title=\"Feinstein's team attempted to conceal her wheelchair and created a barrier to protect her from the press.\">restricting press freedom<\/a> only raises more questions,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Feinstein\u2019s office denied that it is shielding the senator from the media. \u201cOur office has not asked photographers to not take pictures of her in her wheelchair,\u201d Feinstein spokesman Adam Russell said in a statement to the Times. \u201cWe did ask, and continue to ask for safety reasons, that photographers and reporters give her space, particularly when entering and exiting her vehicle.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3>Feinstein&#8217;s Mental Acuity in Question<\/h3>\n<p>Feinstein\u2019s mental acuity has been in question since she returned to the Senate. She gave a bizarre answer when asked by reporters about her lengthy absence and how her colleagues reacted upon her return.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo, I haven\u2019t been gone,\u201d she said, Slate reported. \u201cYou should follow the \u2014 I haven\u2019t been gone, I\u2019ve been working.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>One reporter asked whether she had been working from home. \u201cNo, I\u2019ve been here. I\u2019ve been voting,\u201d she said. \u201cPlease, you either know or don\u2019t know.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><b>CLICK HERE TO GET THE DAILYWIRE+ APP<\/b><\/p>\n<p><em>The views expressed in this piece are the author\u2019s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Joseph Curl has covered politics for 35 years, including 12 years as White House correspondent for a national newspaper. He was also the a.m. editor of the Drudge Report for four years. Send tips to josephcurl@dailywire.com and follow him on Twitter @josephcurl.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A recent poll shows that over 67% of registered voters in California believe that Senator Dianne Feinstein is not capable of serving in the Senate due to her latest illness that has left her in a wheelchair.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":159,"featured_media":1938675,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[5971,9094,5660,3921,19143,4223],"class_list":["post-1938674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-californian","tag-feinstein","tag-office","tag-poll","tag-unfit","tag-voters"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1938674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/159"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1938674"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1938674\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1938675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1938674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1938674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1938674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}