AdvertisementThe fact that Latinos constitute 40% of the state’s population added weight to the argument — both political and symbolic — for Padilla’s appointment. “This is not something that I wish even on my worst enemy,” Newsom said, making one wonder how to get on the governor’s bad side. By then, if things work out as they would like, Harris and Newsom will have built their side-by-side presidential libraries somewhere in the Napa Valley. But there’s a reason Padilla will have to raise and spend tens of millions of dollars trying to hang onto the Senate seat he was just awarded. AdvertisementFewer still will have any recollection, or much care, how the Democrat came to be the state’s junior United States senator.

Source: Los Angeles Times December 24, 2020 21:45 UTC