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Newsom's Choice : Kamala's Senate Seat Replacement
Season 5
Episode 17
Published 5 years, 3 months ago
Description
Governor Gavin Newsom will get to name a new US Senator to fill the vacancy left when Kamala Harris becomes Vice President. The Governor appears to be in no rush to name a successor. While he wants to make an historic appointment, he knows that it is fraught with risk. In the last 56 years, two California Governors appointed successors to fill vacant US Senate seats in 1964 and 1990 and in both cases the appointees went down to historic defeats. There are five frontrunners for the post with one favorite. We will weigh his choices in today's episode.