Essential California: Filling that Senate seat
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.
Source: latimes.com