{"id":228712,"date":"2021-03-16T10:26:16","date_gmt":"2021-03-16T14:26:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=228712"},"modified":"2021-03-16T10:26:26","modified_gmt":"2021-03-16T14:26:26","slug":"newsom-commits-to-nominating-black-woman-to-replace-feinstein-should-she-retire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/newsom-commits-to-nominating-black-woman-to-replace-feinstein-should-she-retire\/","title":{"rendered":"Newsom Commits To Nominating Black Woman to Replace Feinstein Should She Retire"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fnewsom-commits-to-nominating-black-woman-to-replace-feinstein-should-she-retire%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=228712&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/fb_image-1172.jpeg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>California Governor Gavin Newsom on Monday committed to nominating a black woman to replace Senator Dianne Feinstein should she retire before her term expires.<\/p>\n<p>The Democratic governor was asked on MSNBC whether he would nominate an African-American woman for Feinstein\u2019s seat since the Senate\u2019s only other black woman, Vice President Kamala Harris, is no longer in the upper chamber.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have multiple names in mind, and the answer is yes,\u201d Newsom told MSNBC\u2019s Joy Reid.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"9.4110787172012\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JoyAnnReid?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@joyannreid<\/a>: &#8220;If Dianne Feinstein were to retire, will you nominate an African American woman to restore the seat that Kamala Harris is no longer in the Senate? And do you have a name in mind?&#8221;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GavinNewsom?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@gavinnewsom<\/a>: &#8220;We have multiple names in mind, the answer is yes.&#8221;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/TheReidOut?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#TheReidOut<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/SrQ5iGKeNM\">pic.twitter.com\/SrQ5iGKeNM<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 The ReidOut (@thereidout) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/thereidout\/status\/1371607946774384649?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 15, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Feinstein, 87, is the oldest sitting U.S. senator and is serving her fifth full Senate&nbsp;term, which is up in 2025. She was first elected to the chamber when she&nbsp;won a 1992 special election.<sup id=\"cite_ref-3\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup><\/p>\n<p>She served as the&nbsp;Senate Judiciary Committee\u2019s top Democrat from 2017 until this year, when she stepped down after criticism from fellow Democrats of her handling of Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett\u2019s confirmation hearings.<\/p>\n<p>Feinstein had publicly thanked and complimented then-Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham on the hearings, raising the hackles of some progressive Democrats who aggressively opposed Barrett\u2019s nomination to fill the late Ruth Bader Ginsberg\u2019s seat.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis has been one of the best set of hearings that I\u2019ve participated in,\u201d she said as the last of the confirmation hearing sessions concluded.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI will continue to do my utmost to bring about positive change in the coming years,\u201d Feinstein said in a statement in November when she announced her decision not to seek the powerful committee position in the next Congress.<\/p>\n<p>Newsom faced criticism earlier this year when he did not nominate a black woman to replace Harris as California\u2019s other senator but instead chose&nbsp;Alex Padilla, then California\u2019s secretary of state and the Golden State\u2019s first&nbsp;Latino senator.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe son of Mexican immigrants \u2014 a cook and house cleaner \u2014 Alex Padilla worked his way from humble beginnings to the halls of MIT, the Los Angeles City Council and the State Senate, and has become a national defender of voting rights as California\u2019s Secretary of State,\u201d Newsom said in December. \u201cNow, he will serve in the halls of our nation\u2019s Capitol as California\u2019s next United States Senator.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Harris is&nbsp;the daughter of Jamaican and Indian immigrants and was elected in 2016 as only the second black woman to serve in the Senate.<\/p>\n<p>Newsom is currently weathering his&nbsp;sixth recall campaign as California governor. Just hours before Newsom\u2019s remarks promising to nominate a black woman to Feinstein\u2019s seat, two of California\u2019s most influential black leaders,&nbsp;Reps. Barbara Lee of Oakland and Karen Bass of Los Angeles, held a press conference defending him and vowing to fight the recall effort.<\/p>\n<p>The recall initiative was launched by Republicans in response to Newsom\u2019s handling of the pandemic and has attracted the support of the state GOP as well as the Republican National Committee. Organizers of the recall effort say they already have the&nbsp;1.5 million valid signatures they need to submit to the secretary of state\u2019s office by&nbsp;March 17 in order to trigger a recall election.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI won\u2019t be distracted by this partisan, Republican recall \u2014 but I will fight it,\u201d Newsom wrote in a Monday tweet.&nbsp;\u201cThere is too much at stake.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Newsom was also lambasted by critics in November after he was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxla.com\/news\/fox-11-obtains-exclusive-photos-of-gov-newsom-at-french-restaurant-allegedly-not-following-covid-19-protocols\">photographed<\/a> attending a mask-less party with lobbyists at the French Laundry, a chic restaurant in California\u2019s Napa Valley.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a&nbsp;<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em>member<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>California Governor Gavin Newsom on Monday committed to nominating a black woman to replace Senator Dianne Feinstein should she retire before her term expires. The Democratic governor was asked on &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2310540,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/fb_image-1172.jpeg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Newsom Commits To Nominating Black Woman to Replace Feinstein Should She Retire","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-228712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/fb_image-1172.jpeg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Newsom Commits To Nominating Black Woman to Replace Feinstein Should She Retire","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228712","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=228712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228712\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2310540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}