Biden’s HHS Sec Launches Bid For California Governor

Politico reports:

Xavier Becerra, the former health secretary under President Joe Biden, is joining the burgeoning field to be California’s next governor — regardless of whether Kamala Harris seeks the post.

The former California attorney general, who has been mulling a run for the state’s top job for at least a year, launched his bid in a brief video on Wednesday shared first with POLITICO.

In a happenstance twist of timing, his campaign launch dovetailed with the Trump administration’s mass firings at the Health and Human Services Department that Becerra once ran. He had been hitting the airwaves in recent days to blast the department’s gutting as a “man-made disaster.”

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I’m running to be the next Governor of California.

As AG I took on Trump – and won. As HHS Secretary, I took on Big Pharma – and won. It’s time to do it again for California. Let’s rebuild the California Dream for everyone.

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— Xavier Becerra (@XavierBecerra) April 2, 2025