Gavin Newsom approves Kamala Harris as president

Kamala Harris has received endorsement from California Governor Gavin Newsom, who announced Friday in front of a national television viewer that he was supporting his senator's candidacy for the presidency.

"I'm very excited about Kamala Harris," Newsom said in an interview with MSNBC's Chris Hayes. "I have known her for decades, not only as a prosecutor, where she has done a tremendous job with a very progressive record, but I have watched her closely as lieutenant governor, while I have been watching her. she was the attorney general, and I have the privilege of working with her as a senator from the United States. "

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"I think the American people could not do better," Newsom added.

California is at the heart of Harris' plans to block the Democratic presidential nomination – and has recruited prestigious supporters, including Congresswoman Barbara Lee, former president of Black Congress, and Dolores Huerta, an ironic leader in human rights law. labor and civil rights.

Newsom, Lee and Huerta will both co-chair Harris for the presidential bid.

Newsom and Harris have apparently been politically united for decades – climbing the political ladder of San Francisco and California. Many California strategists are basing their election campaign and their career has been put forward by the former mayor of San Francisco and powerful Speaker of the Legislature, President Willie Brown, dubbed "the Ayatollah of the United States." Assembly".

When former Senator Barbara Boxer retired before the 2016 election, it was a turning point for Harris and Newsom. After about five days of intense deliberation, involving not only Harris and Newsom, but also former Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, and billionaire dismissal activist Tom Steyer, Newsom made its first public statement . On Facebook, he announced that he would give up a race in the Senate and unveiled shortly after his candidacy for governorship.

Harris jumped into the Senate race hours later, publishing a list of mentions that eventually scared off any serious competition. When Newsom approved his campaign in the Senate in 2016, he recalled the past in the trenches of one of America's most progressive cities. "If you can survive the politics of San Francisco," Newsom said, pausing, "Washington, DC, is a cockade."

Two years later, Harris returned the favor to Los Angeles, endorsing Newsom as governor and predicting that he would "lead with courage".

Newsom at the time: "It's an amazing journey. Kamala and I have been friends. "