California Dreamin’
Senate. Soon to be vacant due to Kamala Harris’s election as vice president. Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom will appoint a successor to Harris, and this seat was already scheduled for an election in 2022. Various constituencies are reportedly lobbying Newsom for their preferred candidates, in the hopes that Newsom could make history by appointing the state’s first Latino senator, or elevate a Black woman to replace the departing Harris, who was just the second Black woman to serve in the Senate.
21st District (Southern Central Valley and part of Bakersfield) David Valadao, R. Elected 2020 with 50%.…
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