Schiff vs. Trump: The real head-to-head battle defining California's U.S. Senate race

Rep. Adam Schiff was censured last year for allegedly misleading the American public during his dogged investigations of former President Trump .

Schiff is seen on the left as a pure-minded hero who stood up to Trump ’s repeated assaults on democracy.

He also was holding firm in a head-to-head fight with Trump that has come to define his bid for the U.S. Senate seat in California .

Rep. Adam Schiff , a Democrat , faces former Dodger All-Star Steve Garvey , a Palm Desert Republican , for the Palm Desert Desert , Palm Desert seat long held by the late Sen. Dianne Feinstein .

The investigations did not conclude that there was enough evidence to charge any Trump associates with criminally conspiring with the Russians .

The criticism peaked in March 2019 , when then-Atty. Gen. Bill Barr released a four -page summary of Mueller ’s 440 -page report that said.

Schiff said he was careful in the language he chose when talking about the Trump campaign's ties to Russia .

Republicans have dismissed the many connections between Trump associates and Russian intelligence assets as completely innocent on the Trump side.

Schiff led a successful House impeachment of Trump for improperly pressuring Ukraine 's leaders to investigate his political rival, before the Senate acquitted him.