# So who should get Kamala's Senate seat? **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [November 8, 2020, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-who-should-get-kamalas-senate-seat/925058 "2020-11-08T15:13:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Icarus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/icarus/32/72_2.png) [@Icarus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Icarus)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2020, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-who-should-get-kamalas-senate-seat/925058/21 "2020-11-13T16:54:00Z")
In today’s LA Times: How about Danny Trejo? > **[Column: 'Machete' for U.S. Senate? The bold choice for California Gov. Gavin...](https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-11-13/california-latino-senator-danny-trejo)** > > Danny Trejo for U.S. Senate? California can't get any better than that. ---
**Author:** ![E-DUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/e-dub/32/403_2.png) [@E-DUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-DUB)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2020, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-who-should-get-kamalas-senate-seat/925058/22 "2020-11-13T16:56:36Z")
Adam Schiff. It would drive trump even more nuts. ---
**Author:** ![Pleonast](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pleonast/32/1183_2.png) [@Pleonast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pleonast)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2020, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-who-should-get-kamalas-senate-seat/925058/23 "2020-11-13T17:01:15Z")
No, Schiff will be Attorney General and _really_ get at Trump. ---
**Author:** ![AlsoNamedBort](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alsonamedbort/32/3213_2.png) [@AlsoNamedBort](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AlsoNamedBort)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2020, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-who-should-get-kamalas-senate-seat/925058/24 "2020-11-13T20:21:54Z")
> [@Do\_Not\_Taunt](#): > > My guess: it’ll be between when Congress certifies the electoral college count (should be 12/23) and the start of the new Congress (1/3.) It’s the new Senate that certifies the EC votes, on the 6th. ---
**Author:** ![Bijou\_Drains](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bijou_drains/32/2814_2.png) [@Bijou\_Drains](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bijou_Drains)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2020, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-who-should-get-kamalas-senate-seat/925058/25 "2020-11-14T13:24:28Z")
almost certain to be a black woman or maybe Hispanic since there won’t be a black woman after Harris is VP ---
**Author:** ![Do\_Not\_Taunt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/do_not_taunt/32/2968_2.png) [@Do\_Not\_Taunt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Do_Not_Taunt)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2020, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-who-should-get-kamalas-senate-seat/925058/26 "2020-11-16T15:28:48Z")
> [@AlsoNamedBort](#): > > It’s the new Senate that certifies the EC votes, on the 6th. True - I should restate. I’m using the date that votes are transmitted to Congress, because that’s really the last chance for shenanigans. If something weird is going to happen, like some states sending multiple slates of electors, we’d know it by then. If states all behave normally, what happens on the 6th is just a formality. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2020, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-who-should-get-kamalas-senate-seat/925058/27 "2020-11-23T19:02:42Z")
Major California Donors To Urge Gov. Newsom To Pick Woman Of Color To Replace Harris > **[Major California Donors To Urge Gov. To Pick Woman Of Color To Replace Harris](https://www.aol.com/news/major-california-donors-urge-gov-103742084.html)** > > “California is fortunate to have a strong pipeline of women of color in elected office who are prepared to serve," the group will write in an open letter. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2020, 3:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-who-should-get-kamalas-senate-seat/925058/28 "2020-11-26T03:55:21Z")
> **[Democratic fight emerges ahead of appointment to fill Kamala Harris' Senate...](https://www.cnn.com/2020/11/25/politics/kamala-harris-senate-seat-california-democrats/index.html)** > > A cross-country lobbying campaign for Vice President-elect Kamala Harris' Senate seat has pitted factions divided by race, gender and geography against one another and heightened internal tensions within at least one influential caucus on Capitol... ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2020, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-who-should-get-kamalas-senate-seat/925058/29 "2020-11-26T04:04:04Z")
She’s not really mentioned in any articles I’ve read, but what about [Hilda Solis](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilda_Solis)? Former congresswoman, Secretary of Labor under Obama, daughter of immigrants and her dad was a union organizer, currently Los Angeles County supervisor. She’s 63, so not too old, not too old. Plus, she’s a progressive and environmentalist. ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2020, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-who-should-get-kamalas-senate-seat/925058/30 "2020-11-26T04:14:11Z")
So Og-damn predictable… we Dems _ **love** _ to hurt ourselves don’t we? Let California do what suits California. ---
**Author:** ![Roderick\_Femm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/roderick_femm/32/14875_2.png) [@Roderick\_Femm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roderick_Femm)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2020, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-who-should-get-kamalas-senate-seat/925058/31 "2020-11-26T04:31:32Z")
> [@iiandyiiii](#): > > Any Black Latinas in Dem CA politics? Ooh, better yet, a Black Latina Lesbian disabled Veteran! Jackpot! ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2020, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-who-should-get-kamalas-senate-seat/925058/32 "2020-11-26T21:29:27Z")
Better yet if she’s left-handed and is part Native American. ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2020, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-who-should-get-kamalas-senate-seat/925058/33 "2020-11-27T03:42:39Z")
> [@Do\_Not\_Taunt](#): > > start of the new Congress (1/3.) Since this year the 3rd January is on a Sunday, the actual swearing in will be the 4th. > [@Do\_Not\_Taunt](#): > > I’m using the date that votes are transmitted to Congress, because that’s really the last chance for shenanigans. If something weird is going to happen, like some states sending multiple slates of electors, we’d know it by then. If states all behave normally, what happens on the 6th is just a formality. Behaving normally. Yep. Og hear you. Though it does raise the question of how quickly after the Harris resignation takes effect _does_ the replacement itself take actual effect? Hours? A day? A workweek? Newsom obviously will want to have a name ready and vetted right away (so he’d be having meetings now) but can’t actually issue the appointment until the official vacancy happens, and that appointment has to in turn be formally submitted to the Senate and the appointee present themselves for the swearing in. > [@flurb](#): > > Whoever he appoints the seat will be up in 2022. Feinstein is up in 2024 and almost certain to retire, so he might have a couple of opportunities in relatively short order. Also, whan that time comes, remember California uses an all-against-all “jungle primary” where the general election is in effect a runoff between the top two finishers regardless of party, resulting in that both current Senators faced Dem/Dem elections. So if the appointee is to be more than a placeholder they’d better have a good in-state political base to build upon in the first 18 months. ---
**Author:** ![ISiddiqui](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/97f17d/32.png) [@ISiddiqui](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ISiddiqui)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2020, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-who-should-get-kamalas-senate-seat/925058/34 "2020-12-22T18:27:45Z")
It appears Governor Newsom has chosen Alex Padilla to be the next US Senator from California. ---
**Author:** ![Tamerlane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tamerlane/32/7602_2.png) [@Tamerlane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tamerlane)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2020, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-who-should-get-kamalas-senate-seat/925058/35 "2020-12-22T19:00:23Z")
> [@ISiddiqui](#): > > It appears Governor Newsom has chosen Alex Padilla to be the next US Senator from California… He’s been seen as a, maybe the, front-runner almost from the word go. Not a big surprise - the push for a Latino Senator (he’s the first in CA) was pretty strong and they wanted someone with experience competing in statewide elections. ---
**Author:** ![Pleonast](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pleonast/32/1183_2.png) [@Pleonast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pleonast)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2020, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-who-should-get-kamalas-senate-seat/925058/36 "2020-12-22T19:47:08Z")
I’m not sure a man is up to the task, but he’ll have a couple years to prove out. ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2020, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-who-should-get-kamalas-senate-seat/925058/37 "2020-12-22T22:06:06Z")
🤨 ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2020, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-who-should-get-kamalas-senate-seat/925058/38 "2020-12-23T04:36:49Z")
> **[Alex Padilla](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Padilla)** > > Pages for logged out editors learn more > > > > Alejandro Padilla (/pəˈdiːə/ pə-DEE-ə; born March 22, 1973) is an American politician serving as the junior United States senator from California since 2021. A member of the Democratic Party, Padilla served more than seven years on the Los Angeles City Council, representing the 7th district. First elected in 1999, he was the president of the Los Angeles City Council from 2001 to 2006. He then served in the California State Senate for the 20th d... ---
**Author:** ![Kolak\_of\_Twilo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kolak_of_twilo/32/73_2.png) [@Kolak\_of\_Twilo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kolak_of_Twilo)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2020, 5:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-who-should-get-kamalas-senate-seat/925058/39 "2020-12-23T05:54:08Z")
Padilla is the first male U.S. Senator from California in a quarter-century + Just my guess what **Pleonast** is talking about. ---
**Author:** ![flurb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/51bf81/32.png) [@flurb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flurb)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2020, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-who-should-get-kamalas-senate-seat/925058/40 "2020-12-24T15:22:44Z")
I have a feeling that he’s gonna get no deference from ambitious California Democrats when he has to run in 2022. There’s only so many ways for a politician to advance his or her career, and California’s jungle primary means they just need to come in second to force their way onto the November ballot. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-who-should-get-kamalas-senate-seat/925058.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-who-should-get-kamalas-senate-seat/925058.md?page=3)