Latino Groups See Harris’s Vacant Senate Seat as Key Prize
- Governor pressured to appoint state’s first Latino senator
- California has history of sending women to U.S. Senate
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Kamala Harris’s ascent to the vice presidency has touched off a furious battle in California to fill her Senate seat, with calls escalating for Governor Gavin Newsom to name the state’s first Latino U.S. senator.
California is nearly 40% Latino and advocacy groups see the departure of Harris in January as an opportunity to better represent the state’s diversity in Washington.