Politico reports:
Later today, Laphonza Bulter will travel to the Capitol, stand across from her old boss and longtime ally, Vice President Kamala Harris, and be sworn in as the first Black LGBTQ person in the United States Senate, succeeding the late California icon Dianne Feinstein.
Then the hard part begins. It’s not the votes or the committee work. It’s a momentous decision she will have to quickly make about her political future — one that could have serious and messy consequences from coast to coast: Will she run for reelection?
We spoke to multiple friends and political allies of Butler, a veteran of big-league Democratic politics, who all told us the same thing: Her appointment by California Gov. Gavin Newsom came as a surprise, and she is genuinely undecided on whether she will seek to serve past 2024.
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Laphonza Butler is genuinely undecided on whether she will seek to serve past 2024. If she runs, she might have the advantage of incumbency, but she’d be playing catch-up in just about every other way imaginable.
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