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Vice President-elect Dan Quayle (second from right) and his wife Marilyn with Vice President and President-elect George H. W. Bush and his wife Barbara, as well as outgoing president Ronald Reagan and his wife Nancy during a press conference held in the White House Rose Garden during the 1988–89 presidential transition of George H. W. Bush
The 2016 California Senate election used California's new top-two primary format, where the top two candidates in the primary advance to the general election regardless of party. [81] On February 27, 2016, Harris won 78% of the California Democratic Party vote at the party convention, allowing her campaign to receive financial support from the ...
It was widely expected that California voters would continue to vote in this fashion, particularly with Vice President Kamala Harris as the Democratic nominee; Harris was a native Californian who served as the state's attorney general from 2011 to 2017 and later represented it in the U.S. Senate from 2017 to 2021 before assuming the vice ...
This is California's first U.S. Senate race without an incumbent running since 2016, when Vice President Kamala Harris won the seat of retiring Sen. Barbara Boxer, who had served four terms ...
Elections for president, vice president, political party state central committees, and county central committees are "party-nominated". [ 7 ] Candidates may qualify in one of two ways: by payment of a fee, or by the collection of registered voters' signatures on an in-lieu-of-filing-fee petition. [ 8 ]
2022 United States Senate elections in California ← 2016 November 8, 2022 2028 → Candidate Alex Padilla Mark Meuser Party Democratic Republican Regular election 6,621,616 61.06% 4,222,025 38.94% Special election 6,559,303 60.89% 4,212,446 39.11% Special election county results Regular election county results Regular election results by congressional district Padilla: 50–60% 60–70% 70 ...
Article I, Section 3, Clause 4 confers upon the vice president the title "President of the Senate", authorizing the vice president to preside over Senate meetings. In this capacity, the vice president is responsible for maintaining order and decorum, recognizing members to speak, and interpreting the Senate's rules, practices, and precedent.
Schiff, along with Republican former baseball player Steve Garvey, advanced to the general election in both the special and regular elections. As no Republican has won a Senate election in California since 1988, Schiff was considered a heavy favorite, and easily won both the regular and special general elections with more than 58% of the vote.