# Who will replace Harris as Senator? **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [August 11, 2020, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-will-replace-harris-as-senator/917834 "2020-08-11T20:45:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2020, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-will-replace-harris-as-senator/917834/21 "2020-08-12T16:13:53Z")
The [current session in Congress](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/116th_United_States_Congress) ends on January 3. My guess is that she serves until then. ---
**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2020, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-will-replace-harris-as-senator/917834/22 "2020-08-12T21:30:24Z")
Gavin Newsom said today he hasn’t even started considering a replacement, but there were a lot of people already jockeying for the job. ---
**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:** [August 13, 2020, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-will-replace-harris-as-senator/917834/23 "2020-08-13T15:31:18Z")
Newsom could even appoint himself. I’m sure people would hate him for it, but he could. Other governors have done it before; it tends to lead to their defeat in the next election, as you might expect, but not invariably. ---
**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:** [August 13, 2020, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-will-replace-harris-as-senator/917834/24 "2020-08-13T20:28:48Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Newsom could even appoint himself. Why in some deity’s name would he ever consider such a thing? CA governor trumps CA senator in power, influence and size of the bully pulpit any day of the week. It would be one thing if he were governor of some small/lightly populated state. But CA is another sort of beast entirely - Newsom is already more powerful and influential than any senator in the country, barring maybe the Senate Majority Leader. ---
**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:** [August 13, 2020, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-will-replace-harris-as-senator/917834/25 "2020-08-13T23:21:44Z")
Pete Wilson certainly saw it that way - he went from the U.S. Senate to the governor’s chair and seemed happy to have done it. ---
**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:** [August 16, 2020, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-will-replace-harris-as-senator/917834/26 "2020-08-16T02:43:27Z")
My vote would be for Schiff, just to cheese trump off even more than losing will. ---
**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:** [August 16, 2020, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-will-replace-harris-as-senator/917834/27 "2020-08-16T02:45:48Z")
Just got a fundraising letter, my first, from Schiff’s House campaign today, as it happens. ---
**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:** [August 26, 2020, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-will-replace-harris-as-senator/917834/28 "2020-08-26T14:53:21Z")
The Dem political group Latino Victory backs SecState Alex Padilla for appointment to Harris’s Senate seat: [Latino Victory backs Alex Padilla for possible appointment to Harris’ Senate seat - POLITICO](https://www.politico.com/news/2020/08/26/alex-padilla-latino-victory-kamala-harris-402034) ---
**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:** [August 26, 2020, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-will-replace-harris-as-senator/917834/29 "2020-08-26T15:12:31Z")
I’ll be totally sexist and say California should continue to have two women senators. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-will-replace-harris-as-senator/917834.md?page=1)