• Chocrates@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Yes Newsome will appoint a replacement. Some said that if he did that he is defacto picking the new senator due to incombant advantage, but regardless all senators regardless of age or gender or party should retire of they can’t competently due the job.

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      1 year ago

      It hardly matters, Newsom is a democrat, Feinstein was a democrat, Padilla is a Democrat, California has about as much chance of electing a non-Democrat to her Senate seat as it does of seceding from the union. I have mixed feelings about Newsom but whoever he picks is gonna be pretty similar to whoever was gonna win anyway.

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        1 year ago

        The real question is whether he picks someone that was already running for the seat. Very competitive race between Schiff, Porter, and Lee. If he selected one of those, would give them a huge leg up.

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            1 year ago

            Not a CA voter, but that’s where I’m at. Schiff is fine, but let our whiteboard queen cuck some more assholes with nothing more than a dry-erase marker.

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              Even if Shiff is ideologically sound, he’s such a dull, dry, wimpy-assed milquetoast snooze pill that he’d get his ass handed to him AGAIN in the Senate

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          He said a long time ago he’d choose a black woman to take over for Feinstein. Apparently because he didn’t do that when choosing a replacement for Kamala.