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Article snippet: Sen. MORE (D) ahead of her primary in California. Though Sanders has put himself in the middle of other primaries in this cycle, he’s steering clear of California, where Feinstein is being challenged from the left. “It’s an issue for the people of California,” Sanders told The Hill. Asked if that meant he would stay out of the race, Sanders responded, “Yeah.” While Sanders says the California race is for the people of that state to decide, on Thursday he announced that he would back liberal candidate Marie Newman in her primary challenge against Rep. MORE (Ill.), a seven-term Democratic incumbent. Newman has also won endorsements from liberal Reps. MORE (Ill.) and Luis Gutiérrez (D-Ill.), though House Democratic leaders are backing Lipinski. A spokesman for Feinstein did not respond to a request for comment on Sanders’s remarks. It’s not a huge surprise that Sanders would not back Feinstein in the primary, and Feinstein may be relieved that the popular liberal is not endorsing her rival, Kevin de León, president pro tempore of the California state Senate. Feinstein failed to win an endorsement at California’s state Democratic convention last month, winning just 37 percent of the vote. De León won 54 percent, which also fell short of the 60 percent necessary to win the endorsement. The challenger was helped by the efforts of Sanders supporters who have made a concerted effort to exert more control over local parties. De León is advocating for some of the same pr... Link to the full article to read more