Rep. Adam Schiff will be sworn into the Senate Monday after resigning from his current House seat, Just the News reported. The California Democrat was elected into the upper chamber in November.
Schiff bested his GOP opponent, Steve Garvey, to win the seat left vacant by the late Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein. "I just cast my last vote as a member of the House of Representatives," Schiff captioned a video message he posted to X, formerly Twitter, Friday.
"To my LA constituents — thank you for the amazing opportunity to serve. And to the people of the whole state of CA, I’m so grateful for your confidence and look forward to all we can get done together," Schiff added.
I just cast my last vote as a member of the House of Representatives.
To my LA constituents — thank you for the amazing opportunity to serve.
And to the people of the whole state of CA, I’m so grateful for your confidence and look forward to all we can get done together! pic.twitter.com/i3TZjUR27p
— Adam Schiff (@RepAdamSchiff) December 6, 2024
Schiff made a name for himself by going after President-elect Donald Trump during his first term in office. He was a driving force behind the Russia collusion hoax that ultimately fell apart because there was never any truth to it, Fox News reported.
In June 2023, the House passed a 213-209 resolution to censure Schiff for pushing the false narrative that would put Trump under suspicion throughout his 2016 campaign and beyond. Florida GOP Rep. Anna Paulina Luna said Schiff "launched an all-out political campaign built on baseless distortions against a sitting U.S. president" before the vote.
"With access to sensitive information unavailable to most members of Congress and certainly not accessible to the American people, Schiff abused his privileges, claiming to know the truth while leaving Americans in the dark about his web of lies… lies so severe that they altered the course of the country forever." Schiff was the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee at the time of the investigation.
With his usual flair for the dramatic, Schiff thanked his enemies. "To my Republican colleagues who introduced this resolution, I thank you. You honor me with your enmity, you flatter me with this falsehood," Schiff said.
"You, who are the authors of a big lie about the last election, must condemn the truth tellers. And I stand proudly before you. Your words tell me that I have been effective in the defense of our democracy, and I am grateful," Schiff claimed.
That surly approach was popular enough with his Democratic constituents to get Schiff elected to the Senate. However, he has since taken a more defiant stance against Trump, The Hill reported.
Trump has promised payback for Schiff's malicious pursuit of him, and Schiff is striking a tougher tone against Trump. "Look, I’m not going to be intimidated by anything he says, by anything he does," Schiff said last month on CNN's State of the Union.
"I’m going to do my responsibility in this Senate. Californians are expecting me, first and foremost, to try to work and get things done," Schiff added.
The California Democrat pledged that "where the President wants to engage in unconstitutional abuses of power, just as he did in the first administration, I will defend our state." Apparently, Schiff will continue sparring with Trump as a political strategy.
Schiff is an opportunistic and unscrupulous politician who made his name by getting on the never-Trump bandwagon. He will continue to be so as long as the people of California keep voting for him.
