Key Points
Within the next fortnight, subject to a virtual roll-call of Democratic Party delegates, vice president Kamala Harris will be confirmed as the presumptive Democrat candidate for the US presidency and will engage in a full-on battle for the White House with the Republican candidate, Donald Trump...
Hollywood has given us such California politicians as former governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, Clint Eastwood mayor of Carmel-by-the-Sea and a one Ronald Wilson Reagan, who made the political journey from Democrat to conservative Republican..
This was when the then governor, Jerry Brown, made his final run, offering a serious challenge to Bill Clinton before choosing Rev Jesse Jackson as his vice-presidential pick, something that a small-c conservative country was just not ready for..
The Wall Street crash and the Depression put paid to a Hoover second term and while the Republicans won the presidency back under Eisenhower in 1952, the most prominent Californian appointment of the 1950s was Earl Warren as chief justice of the US Supreme Court..
Next up to bat for the presidency was former vice-president Richard Nixon, who benefited from the chaos among the Democrats in 1968 following LBJs decision not to run, to beat the incumbent Democratic vice-president Hubert Humphrey surely a lesson for Harris...
