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As Vice President-elect Kamala Harris resigns from the Senate, California Governor Gavin Newsom has named the state’s attorney general, Alex Padilla, to fill the seat. Sophia Bollag, a politics reporter covering the Newsom administration at the Sacramento Bee, joins CBSN to discuss the impact as well as GOP efforts to recall the governor.