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Cooley concedes Calif. AG race

SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 24 (UPI) -- Three weeks after the election, Steve Cooley says he has conceded the race for California attorney general to San Francisco District Attorney Kamala Harris.

Cooley, a Republican who is the Los Angeles district attorney, had declared victory the night of the Nov. 2 election only to see the contest swing back-and-forth as the ballots were counted in the following days until Harris, the Democratic candidate, pulled ahead by 50,000 votes, the San Francisco Chronicle reported.

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Cooley, who said he believed his campaign couldn't "make up the current gap in the vote count," added about the state's first female attorney general, "It is unfortunate that someone who is a non-partisan, non-politician could not overcome the increasingly partisan tendencies of the state, even for an office that, by its nature, necessitates a non-partisan approach."

When San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom, California's lieutenant governor-elect heads to Sacramento, it will leave that city without a mayor and head prosecutor, the newspaper said.

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