This is John Batcher, a conversation with my colleague Bill Whelan of the Hoover Institution

about the governor's race in California due in 2026.

June of that year is the primary, this is a jungle primary, the top two would face each other in the general

election.

And Bill moves very quickly to connect history with the mention that he's heard that Camilla Harris, if things don't work out in

2024, may come back to California and run for Governor.

Bill Whelan recounts how that's happened before, not positively.

Bill Whelan, Hoover Institution, Camilla Harris for Governor,

Question Mark.

Good evening, John. Well, Cam Pamela Harris's name came up, John,

because there was a report a couple weeks ago

in the press out here that she has been telling friends

that if things don't work out for her in 2024, meaning she and Joe Biden lose a national

election, that she would not be averse to the notion of returning to her native California

and running for governor in 2026.

And the light ball went off of me, John it would with you we have seen that we've done that in California

John it was 1962 and Richard Nixon coming off of presidential loss in 1960

in a former vice president he came back to his native California, and he ran in 1962 and it ended rather tragically for