Harris was the second-ever Black woman to serve as a U.S. senator — Illinois former Sen. Carol Moseley Braun served from 1993 to 1999 and ran for the Democratic nomination for president in 2004.https://bit.ly/2M1UnTJ
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California Gov. Gavin Newsom has selected Alex Padilla to fill the U.S. Senate seat vacated by VP-elect Kamala Harris. Padilla will be the first Latinx person to represent California in the Senate, but it also leaves the upper chamber with no Black women.https://bit.ly/2M1UnTJ
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California Democratic Rep. Barbara Lee was said to be among those considered to replace Harris. “So representation, it really does matter, because the lens by which you look at policies are lenses that others don’t have,” Lee told The 19th in November.https://bit.ly/3awuHc5
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Also on the shortlist was California Democratic Rep. Karen Bass, chair of the Congressional Black Caucus. In November, Bass told The 19th there‘s a need to diversify the Senate. “I think that it will leave a vacuum to not have a Black woman there.”https://bit.ly/3hbwTqz
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Padilla, the son of Mexican immigrants who worked as a cook and a house cleaner, was sworn in as California’s first Latinx secretary of state in 2015. The Congressional Hispanic Caucus backed Padilla as the pick for the Senate role. More from
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So what, they moving on up to the vice presidency
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Looks as if the BLM backfired.
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