Jockeying Begins For Kamala Harris’s US Senate Seat

Roll Call reports:

California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) on Wednesday said he has already received a number of pitches from people who are seeking to fill Democratic Vice Presidential nominee Sen. Kamala Harris’s (D) Senate seat if she and Joe Biden win the White House this November.

“You may be the only one that hasn’t, unless you just did. And that is only slight exaggeration,” Newsom told a reporter at a press conference when asked if people had already pitched themselves to be Harris’s Senate successor in the upper chamber.

Several names have already floated as to who could fill the rest of Harris’s term, which ends in early 2023. Among them are Rep. Karen Bass (D), another former prospective vice presidential pick, Rep. Adam Schiff (D), the chairperson of the House Intelligence Committee and California Attorney General Xavier Becerra, among others.