Xavier Becerra walked into one of the toughest jobs in Washington when he became Joe Biden ’s secretary of health and human services at the height of the COVID pandemic in early 2021. “The day President Biden was sworn in, we essentially lost 10 jumbo jets of Americans,” he told Vanity Fair in an interview.

Now, less than six months after leaving that role—as he watches the work he did at the Department of Health and Human Services be effectively dismantled by successor Robert F. Kennedy Jr. —Becerra is throwing his hat in the ring for yet another high-stakes gig: governor of California.

Before making his way to HHS, Becerra served as California attorney general and spent more than 20 years representing Downtown Los Angeles in the House of Representatives. In his gubernatorial c

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