# So who should get Kamala's Senate seat?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-who-should-get-kamalas-senate-seat/925058>\
**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")\
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**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 24, 2020, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-who-should-get-kamalas-senate-seat/925058/41 "2020-12-24T18:10:42Z")

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> [@flurb](#):
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> I have a feeling that he’s gonna get no deference from ambitious California Democrats when he has to run in 2022…

I think that’s almost guaranteed. There were a lot of Democrats angling for this job and it’s very unlikely Padilla will become enough of a fixture in two years to discourage them. The advantage of incumbency has traditionally been much weaker for appointed politicians and to some extent the party as a whole isn’t going to be concerned who wins as long as there isn’t a particularly strong Republican candidate in the mix.

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