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What a year. That’s how these kinds of year-end pieces always start, right? But if there’s a year that cliché is true, it’s 2020 — the year “unprecedented” became hackneyed. An unprecedented impeachment trial? Check. An unprecedented once-in-a-century pandemic? Check. Advertisement An unprecedented presidential election? Check. Amid the whiplash of 2020, it’s easy to forget all that happened, or at the very least, how it happened. One of my favorite 2020 Times stories wasn’t about politics at all. It was this piece by audience engagement editor Rachel Schnalzer on how the ...

POLITICO Sign up for POLITICO Playbook today. Email Sign Up By signing up you agree to receive email newsletters or updates from POLITICO and you agree to our privacy policy and terms of service. You can unsubscribe at any time and you can contact us here. This sign-up form is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply. Presented by Facebook President Donald Trump on Tuesday issued a string of controversial pardons, endorsed a primary challenge to Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.) and threatened to veto a massive bipartisan spending and Covid relief deal that his a...

Enter email address You may occasionally receive promotional content from the Los Angeles Times. After months of relentless lobbying and fervent speculation, Gov. Gavin Newsom has chosen California’s next senator. California Secretary of State Alex Padilla will replace Vice President-elect Kamala Harris in the U.S. Senate, making him California’s first Latino senator. Advertisement Newsom faced competing pressures to select either a Latino politician or a Black female politician for the role, with either choice potentially rectifying broader issues of representation: Latinos outn...

NEWSOM’S Senate pick ahead? — GINGRICH endorses Newsom recall — FEINSTEIN’s dilemma — JAY-Z’s new cannabis play: $50 joints 12/14/2020 09:10 AM EST THE BUZZ — IT’S COMING: Don’t be surprised if Gov. Gavin Newsom decides to deliver California’s Hanukkah/Christmas gift this week — and roll out his choice for the Senate seat held by Vice President-elect Kamala Harris. If the much-anticipated appointment comes, as some insiders expect, during the holiday period, when news is typically slow, it could provide Newsom with a buffer, turning the page on the narrative from the la...

The stakes keep rising in California’s favorite political parlour game: Who will Gov. Gavin Newsom choose to succeed Kamala Harris as the state’s junior senator? Newsom is thought to be making his decision by the end of the year, and the political jockeying has only grown more intense. Here’s a look at where things currently stand. Advertisement The landscape was shaken up last week when state Atty. Gen. Xavier Becerra — widely considered to be on the short list for a Senate appointment — was tapped by President-elect Joe Biden to serve as secretary of Health and Human Services.