Poll: California voters want Condoleezza Rice in the Senate

Forty-nine percent of likely voters say the former Secretary of State is their preference for replacing Democrat Barbara Boxer in the Senate come 2016.

Rice, a Republican, came out on top among 18 potential Senate candidates in the Field Poll. California Attorney General Kamala Harris, a Democrat and the only candidate to have declared her intention to run, followed Rice in second place.

Despite her popularity, Rice, a professor at Stanford University and a fellow at its Hoover Institution, isn’t interested in the Senate job. Her chief of staff told The Hill last month that putting her name on the ballot "isn't even a consideration."

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