California Attorney General Kamala Harris is set to announce Tuesday her run for Barbara Boxer’s soon-to-be-vacant Senate seat.
Harris, 50, a two-term attorney general, is all in after Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom said Monday he would not run for the Democratic Party’s nomination for the seat.
“She’s not testing the waters. She’s charting the course. She’s in with both feet,” an anonymous Harris adviser told the Los Angeles Times.
Harris, the first female, first African-American and first Asian-American attorney general in California, previously served as the District Attorney of San Francisco from 2004 to 2011.
Boxer, a longtime Senate Democrat, announced last week she would not seek re-election in 2016, opening a California seat for the first time since 1992.
Harris is the first candidate to officially declare for the seat, though numerous others, like billionaire activist Tom Steyer and former Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, are said to be seriously considering.
