Sen. Alex Padilla (D-Calif.) announced he will not run for governor next year as voters back in his home state went to the polls on Tuesday to weigh in on mid-decade redistricting.
“I want to begin by saying, I love California,” he said at a news conference in Washington. Standing alongside his wife, he called California “our home” and lauded its universities and clean-energy ambitions as he expressed appreciation for “Californians’ resilience.”
