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from SFGate<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Oprah Winfrey could replace Dianne Feinstein in Senate, report says<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

by Eric Ting<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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FILE: Oprah Winfrey attends the 29th Santa Barbara International Film Festival on Feb. 5, 2014, in Santa Barbara, Calif.\u00a0C Flanigan\/FilmMagic<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Among the many plot lines in the Dianne Feinstein saga<\/a> is Gov. Gavin Newsom’s<\/a> pledge to appoint a Black woman to replace the 89-year-old should a vacancy arise before her term expires in January 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He made that promise during his 2021 anti-recall campaign,<\/a> and a new article from the Associated Press’ Michael R. Blood<\/a> conveys the extent to which the governor may have boxed himself in. While many Black Democrats expect the governor to follow through on his pledge, the two candidates who seemed the most likely at the time of the pledge \u2014 Reps. Barbara Lee and Karen Bass \u2014 may no longer be options. Lee is running against Rep. Adam Schiff to succeed Feinstein, so Newsom may want to avoid tilting the scales in that race. Meanwhile, Bass just began her tenure as mayor of Los Angeles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That leaves the \u201ccaretaker\u201d route, in which Newsom appoints someone who doesn’t enter the Senate race, and the Associated Press story provided just one name that has been \u201cfloated in California circles\u201d as a caretaker pick: celebrity talk show host Oprah Winfrey.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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from SFGate Oprah Winfrey could replace Dianne Feinstein in Senate, report says by Eric Ting Among the many plot lines in the Dianne Feinstein saga is Gov. Gavin Newsom’s pledge to appoint a Black woman to replace the 89-year-old should a vacancy arise before her term expires in January 2025. He made that promise during his 2021 anti-recall campaign, and a new article from […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12790","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12790"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12790\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}