President Joe Biden’s former health secretary, Xavier Becerra, wants to be California’s next governor, he announced April 2.
“I watched my parents, a construction worker and a clerical worker, achieve the California dream,” Becerra said in a social media video Wednesday. “Can we do that today with this affordability crisis? Very tough. But we’ve taken on these tough fights.
“California has succeeded in those tough fights and become the economic engine of this country,” he said. “We can do that, but you need a leader who can be tough.”
Before leading Biden’s pandemic response, the 67-year-old politician served in the state legislature from 1990 to 1992, and spent 24 years as a United States congressman representing Los Angeles, and then as California’s attorney general from 2017 to 2021….