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Bruce Herschensohn

Bruce S. Herschensohn is an American conservative political commentator and senior fellow at the Pepperdine School of Public Policy near Malibu, California. Previously, Herschensohn has been a Distinguished Fellow at the Claremont Institute and a fellow at the Institute of Politics at Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government in Cambridge, Massachusetts. In 1986, Herschensohn unsuccessfully sought the Republican nomination for the United States Senate held by the liberal Democrat Alan Cranston. He finished second, with 587,842 votes (29.6 percent) to U.S. Representative Ed Zschau of the Silicon Valley, who received 7,347,384 (37.1 percent). In the general election, Cranston defeated Zschau to secure his fourth and final Senate term. Zschau, considered a moderate to liberal Republican, later left the GOP and became an independent. In 1992, when Cranston retired, Herschensohn won the Republican nomination by narrowly defeating U.S. Representative Tom Campbell, a liberal Republican who had been on the faculty of Stanford University. During the primary campaign and afterwards, Herschensohn became a close friend of Sonny Bono and encouraged his former rival to seek election to the United States House of Representatives in 1994. Bono was part of the freshman class in 1995... Next

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