After high-profile clashes with Trump, Adam Schiff will soon have a new title: Freshman

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

54% : Read more: Schiff vs. Trump: The real head-to-head battle defining California's U.S. Senate race"When he walks onto the Senate floor for the first time, Republican senators are going to look around and say, 'So there he is,' " said Jim Manley, a former senior advisor to the late Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid.
50% : During that time, top Trump campaign officials met with a Russian asset in Trump Tower, Trump's campaign manager shared internal polling data with another Russian asset, and Trump himself called on Russia to hack Democratic presidential rival Hillary Clinton's emails.
40% : A UC Berkeley poll co-sponsored by the L.A. Times in September indicated that if Trump were elected again, nearly 6 in 10 likely California voters would want Schiff to prioritize "protecting California's interests and opposing federal legislation that would undercut existing state laws and policies.
34% : Without that power, Trump wrote, "we will not be able to get people confirmed in a timely manner.
31% : But Trump has already signaled that he will try to bypass the Senate.
26% : Schiff was the lead manager of the trial in which the House voted to impeach Trump for asking Ukrainian officials to investigate Joe Biden, his expected 2020 Democratic presidential rival, while withholding military aid to the country.
26% : The Senate acquitted Trump after both House impeachments, but he hasn't forgotten the investigations, calling them "witch hunts" and painting Schiff as an immoral Democratic operator who was obsessed with toppling him from the White House.
24% : He said Trump would be "more unshackled than ever, more threatening than ever, of his political enemies" since the recent Supreme Court ruling that sitting presidents have sweeping criminal immunity for actions taken in their official capacity.
20% : "They're the same issues, in part, that Republicans campaigned on and Trump campaigned on," Schiff said.
10% : In September, when Schiff was still hoping Vice President Kamala Harris would win the presidential election, he told The Times that Trump being returned to power would "elevate the personal risk" to himself.
9% : Trump has vowed to spend his second term pursuing his political enemies, including Schiff, whom he has variously described as a "liar," "traitor," "shifty," "evil," "pencil neck" and one of the country's "enemies from within.
1% : Poll: If Trump wins the White House, Californians want their next senator to fight backSchiff's contentious relationship with Trump -- and Trump's disdain for him -- stem directly from Schiff's work in the House to hold the Republican accountable before and during his first term in office.

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