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    Interview: California's newest senator, Laphonza Butler, on Trump, Gaza and her future

    by Erin B. Logan, Los Angeles Times Jan 21, 2024 5 minutes
    Laphonza Butler speaks at a press conference on the recent election of U.S. Speaker of the House Mike Johnson at the U.S. Capitol Building on Nov. 01, 2023, in Washington, DC.

    COLUMBIA, S.C. — Sen. Laphonza Butler, D-Calif., whom Gov. Gavin Newsom appointed last year to fill the seat of the late Dianne Feinstein, has been in Congress for just over 100 days. Ahead of her first formal speech on the Senate floor Wednesday, she spoke with The Times about what she hopes to accomplish before she leaves office early next year.

    Butler, who has said she will not run for reelection, discussed the 2024 presidential race, why she has not called for a cease-fire in the Gaza Strip, California's waning power in Congress and what her political future might look like after she leaves the Senate.

    This transcript has been condensed and edited for clarity.

    You are one junior senator in a body of 100 in a larger branch of government with over 500 lawmakers. In Congress, it is very hard for

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