Kamala Harris endorses Gavin Newsom for governor
Sen. Kamala Harris endorsed Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom for governor Friday in Los Angeles.
The Newsom campaign billed the event on the campus of the University of Southern California — in the hometown of former Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, the candidate Newsom is virtually tied with atop a recent Public Policy Institute of California poll — as “a major statewide endorsement.”
She and Newsom have connections going back years. Harris was district attorney in San Francisco when Newsom was the city’s mayor, and both were first elected to statewide office in 2010. They also share the same political consultant, SCN Strategies of San Francisco. As state attorney general, Harris administered the oath of office to Newsom to begin his second term as lieutenant governor in 2015.
“We’ve been friends for a very long time,” Harris said with Newsom at her side. She praised him for his landmark support of same-sex marriage as San Francisco’s mayor.
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