Kamala Harris and Gavin Newsom Weigh a Showdown

Wall Street Journal: “Newsom, 58 years old, and Harris, 61, have shared mentors, staffers, donors, friends and consultants for more than two decades, going neck and neck in the parochial world of Bay Area politics. They have exchanged endorsements and snubs, each wary of the other.”

Said Democratic strategist Garry South: “They’ve been kind of like two cats, circling each other in an alley for years, politically speaking.”

“The conspicuously liberal politicians live in exclusive locales at two ends of the Golden State —Harris in Malibu, Calif., and Newsom in Marin County—and appear on a collision course for the keys to the big white mansion at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.”