California Gov. Gavin Newsom, a Democrat, selected California Secretary of State Alex Padilla for the Senate seat that Vice President-elect Kamala Harris will vacate. "The son of Mexican immigrants — a cook and house cleaner — Alex Padilla worked his way from humble beginnings to the halls of MIT, the Los Angeles City Council and the State Senate, and has become a national defender of voting rights as California’s Secretary of State," Newsom said in a statement on Tuesday. "Now, he will serve in the halls of our nation’s Capitol as California’s next United States Senator, the first Latino to hold this office." Newsom's decision comes after calls for him to replace Harris with a Black woman. "I will tell you that I do believe that there.
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