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Kennedy was initially believed to have won the state on election night, but absentee ballots resulted in Nixon winning. [9] This was the first time since the 1912 election that California supported the losing presidential candidate. [10] The Democrats maintained their control over the state legislature in the concurrent elections. [11]
A member of Kennedy's civil rights team and King's friend, Harris Wofford, and other Kennedy campaign members passed out a pamphlet to black churchgoers the Sunday before the presidential election that said, ""No Comment" Nixon versus a Candidate with a Heart, Senator Kennedy." [80] On election day, Kennedy won the black vote in most areas by ...
PHOTO: Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., President Trump's nominee to serve as Secretary of Health and Human Services testifies during a Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions hearing for ...
Since being admitted to the Union in 1850, California has participated in 43 presidential elections. A bellwether from 1888 to 1996 , voting for the losing candidates only three times in that span, California has become a reliable state for Democratic presidential candidates since 1992 .
Kennedy’s father, Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, a Democrat from New York, was assassinated in Los Angeles the night he won that year’s California presidential primary. Kennedy says he has qualified ...
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. played an instrumental role in organizing mass litigation against drugmaker Merck over its Gardasil vaccine, a strategy that faces its first test in a Los Angeles court next ...
Emancipation betrayed: The hidden history of black organizing and white violence in Florida from Reconstruction to the bloody election of 1920 (U of California Press, 2005). Rehnquist, William H. Centennial Crisis: The Disputed Election of 1876 (2004), popular history by the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. online; also see online review
Litigation over a 2018 brawl by alleged members of the Banditos deputy gang from the East L.A sheriff's station reached a settlement just before the case was to go to a civil trial.