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    Kamala Harris' exit from the presidential race has Democratic rivals rushing to capitalize in California

    by Melanie Mason And Michael Finnegan, Los Angeles Times Dec 05, 2019 4 minutes

    LOS ANGELES - Before California Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon even knew that Kamala Harris, his preferred candidate, had backed out of the presidential race, his phone was buzzing with a surrogate from one of her rivals to gauge his interest in endorsing. By day's end, he'd heard from three other campaigns.

    "Tom Steyer tried to reach out," Rendon, a Democrat from Lakewood, Calif., said of the billionaire activist, "but apparently he had the wrong number." (They eventually connected Wednesday.)

    The instantaneous scramble for Democratic presidential candidates to bolster their California support after Harris' sudden departure on Tuesday added to the uncertainty in the lead-up to the state's

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