Alex Padilla has been elected to his first full term as U.S. senator for California, solidifying his position as a top Latino elected official in the United States and a leading Democratic voice for more expansive immigration laws.
and priorities to earlier experiences: how his engineering background means infrastructure will always be “a big deal;” how immigration comes up every chance he gets in discussions with other senators. He chairs a Judiciary subcommittee on immigration, citizenship and border safety.
“The work is still unfinished from an immigration reform standpoint — long, long overdue for the nation,” Padilla said in a September interview. “No state has more at stake in it than California.” Other issues Padilla has worked on include power grid reliability and voting rights. He also led a $25 billion effort to convert gas- and diesel-powered school buses to electric vehicles.Finances were one measure of the lopsided Senate contest. Padilla raised $11.8 million as of Oct. 19, and had $7.6 million left. Meuser raised $949,000 and had $136,000 remaining.Padilla captured 54.1% of the vote among 23 contestants. Meuser finished second with 14.9%.
Meuser, a 48-year-old lawyer at the firm of top Republican political operative Harmeet Dhillon, said he had no plans for a rematch with Padilla until pandemic health restrictions that he found overbearing were put in place. His campaign site says he was involved in 22 lawsuits against Newsom for “his unconstitutional usurpation of power.”
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