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The 8 Top Contenders for Kamala Harris’s Senate Seat

More than a dozen potential candidates are reportedly angling to take over the U.S. Senate soon to be vacated by Kamala Harris, the new vice president-elect….

As one race ends, another begins. In California, roughly a dozen candidates—some publicly, some privately—are reportedly angling to take over the U.S. Senate seat soon to be vacated by Kamala Harris, the new vice president-elect.

It will not be an easy decision for California governor Gavin Newsom, in part because of the historical significance of Harris’s seat. Harris, the first Black woman to be elected to national office in the United States, is the only Black woman and one of only three Black senators overall in the current U.S. Senate. (The two others are Cory Booker of New Jersey and Tim Scott of South Carolina.) It’s hard not to imagine that will be one key consideration in Newsom’s decision.

But there is another factor at play. As a state, California is 39% Latino, and there has never been a Latino Senator elected from California. There will undoubtedly be political pressure on Newsom to address that issue, especially as he nears his own reelection campaign in 2022.

Another decision Newsom has to make is whether to appoint a caretaker in the seat or someone who plans to run in 2022 and thus would be able to do so as an incumbent. When President-elect Joe Biden became vice president under Barack Obama in 2009, longtime Biden aide Edward Kaufman was named to fill his Senate seat, and Kaufman announced at the time that he did not intend to run for reelection when the Delaware seat came up in 2010. (A local Delaware official, Chris Coons, entered and won that race.)

“There’s no shortage of ambition here,” the Democratic strategist Brian Goldsmith recently told Politico. “There’s three dozen plausible potential senators—and there’s only one spot. These seats don’t come around often, and once filled, they can be filled for decades. So everybody’s trying to do their own version of smart campaigning.”

Here is a look at the top contenders right now.

pCongresswoman Karen Bass was on Joe Bidens short list for vice president this summerGetty Imagesp — Congresswoman Karen Bass was on Joe Biden’s short list for vice president this summer/Getty Images

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A$AP Rocky Turned An Entire Manchester City Kit Into His Album Rollout

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A$AP Rocky doesn’t do album rollouts quietly, and this one recruited an entire Premier League club to help. Manchester City, PUMA, and Rocky teamed up on a limited apparel run tied to “Don’t Be Dumb,” his 2026 album, timed around his September 5th show at Co-op Live.

The centerpiece is a long-sleeve PUMA King jersey in black and archive gold, with “DON’T BE DUMB” running down the sleeve and AWGE branding worked in throughout. A bold “MANCHESTER” graphic covers the back. Fans could also add limited “A$AP 11” name-and-number printing onto the club’s actual Home, Away, or Third kits, while supplies lasted at retail.

There’s a players-only version too, and it never went up for sale. That one sticks closer to City’s usual sky-blue identity, with its own sleeve detailing and back graphic — the kind of piece that exists purely because a handful of people got lucky.

The whole rollout kicked off with a one-night pop-up on September 4th, when PUMA turned a spot in Manchester’s Northern Quarter into a pop-up cafe for the night, mixing football, music, and street style into one room before the wider release hit the stadium store the next morning. Some of those jerseys even came with golden tickets to the concert or that Saturday’s match.

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Quavo And Lids Are Going All In On Atlanta With Their New Cap Pack

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Quavo has never been shy about his hat obsession, and Lids just gave him another outlet for it. Their new “Atlanta” pack drops September 12th, marking another round in a partnership that’s been running strong since 2019.

The collection is a love letter to the city, spread across three very different caps. One mashes up pinstripes, script lettering, and Braves branding into a single design, working navy, red, white, and light blue into the mix. Another goes the opposite direction entirely — fully iced out in crystal detailing, done up in black and red, with both the Falcons and the Braves showing up in the design. The third strips things back to an old-school “ATL” trucker cap in red, white, and gold, the kind of understated piece that lets the city’s name do the talking.

None of this is new territory for Quavo. He’s talked before about waiting on hat releases as a kid, and that same excitement seems to be what’s kept this partnership going years past most celebrity collabs. His earlier Lids run leaned on one moment — the Braves’ 1995 World Series win — but this pack pulls from the city’s whole sports history instead of just one highlight.

Lids has called Quavo one of the rare voices who can blend music, fashion, and sports without it feeling forced, and this drop backs that up. Given how fast his past releases have moved, Atlanta might want to set an alarm for September 12th.

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