Zero good options to replace Kamala Harris

With Kamala Harris set to become vice president come January, Gov. Gavin Newsom must decide with whom to fill California’s Senate vacancy — only the second in nearly three decades. In the bluest state in the union, Senate seats are basically lifetime appointments, and California’s new top-two primary system all but guarantees that incumbents are invincible. Whomever Newsom chooses, we can assume that person will occupy the seat for decades.

Below is the list of likely picks in order of least awful to most abysmal.