Ex-L.A. mayor Villaraigosa skips Calif. Senate race
Antonio Villaraigosa presided over a 2012 Democratic National Convention in Charlotte. (Jack Gruber, USA TODAY)
Former Los Angeles mayor Antonio Villaraigosa pronounced Tuesday he will not run for a open U.S. Senate chair in California, withdrawal a high-profile 2016 competition though a distinguished Latino claimant who can take on Attorney General Kamala Harris.
After weeks of consideration, Villaraigosa announced on Facebook that he’ll stay in California and skip a dear conflict to attain timid Democratic Sen. Barbara Boxer. Villaraigosa, a former orator of a California assembly, had been noticed as a strongest Latino candidate
From Villaraigosa’s statement:
I am shamed by a support I’ve perceived from so many to offer in a United States Senate. But as we consider about how best to offer a people of this good state, we know that my heart and my family are here in California, not Washington, D.C. we have motionless not to run for a U.S. Senate and instead continue my efforts to make California a improved place to live, work and lift a family. We have come a prolonged way, though a work is not done, and conjunction am I.
Harris — a renouned figure who was re-elected as a state’s tip law coercion officer in Nov — jumped into a Senate competition early and already has several national Democratic figures
Because of California’s distance and costly media markets, a statewide debate requires lots of income and fundraising prowess. Added to those hurdles is a state’s primary system, in that all possibilities run during a same time and a tip dual finishers regardless of celebration allege to a ubiquitous election. Democrats have a 15-point advantage in voter registration over Republicans in California.
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