SACRAMENTO — The leader of the California Democratic Party on Tuesday began publicly urging Democrats to drop out of the governor’s race because of the possibility they will be locked out of the general election.
Thank you for reading this post, don't forget to subscribe!About 45% of California voters are registered Democrats, compared with about 25% registered as Republicans. But nine candidates are splitting the Democratic vote, versus just two dividing Republicans. As a result, the two Republican candidates — Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco and former Fox News pundit Steve Hilton — could place first and second in the primary. Under California’s jungle primary system, where the top two vote-getters advance to the general election regardless of party, that would guarantee a Republican governor in liberal California.
On Tuesday morning, a website built by California election data expert Paul Mitchell to assess the likelihood of a Democratic shutout was pegging that possibility at about 15%. The website factors in recent polling and fundraising data and runs simulated primary elections to predict how much of the vote each candidate might expect to win.
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“The likelihood of two Republicans effectively ‘locking out’ California Democrats from the contest for Governor in the General Election is relatively low,” California Democratic Party Chair Rusty Hicks wrote in an open letter. “However, while it is implausible, it is not impossible.”
At its convention last week, the party failed to coalesce around one candidate to endorse.
Hicks didn’t name any candidates in his letter. But he urged all Democrats to assess whether they have a path to victory and to drop out before Friday, the deadline to file paperwork to appear on the ballot, if they don’t. If they decide to stay in the race, he said they should assess their viability again before April 15 and endorse someone else if they can’t win.
Wow! This is nice. There is a chance a Republican can win the governorship!
If these voters in California have not figured out the DNC is the party of the intolerant, they scream for tolerance yet have none, they are corrupt, inept and the way they have governed and ruined the entire state is testament enough that those that originated the KKK, fraud scammers and those who promise everything and yet destroy everything they touch, if these voters can’t figure it out by now I have lost hope. I want to know where is the BILLIONS stolen intended for the useless train to nowhere all quarter mile of it since 2008 and the billions stolen from the homeless projects not to mention the funding to deforest, while ending the diverting of the farmers water and water intended to flow to Los Angeles and surrounding areas, in essence we have had decades of abuse and the dumb voters just vote their party. Nothing will get better here and if you believe that just watch the massive exodus.
Don’t you love it!!!!!
The bullies of the past 40 years. The failures of the past 40 years that has led to multi year $Billion deficits.
The promoters of open borders and taking tax money to hand out our tax dollars for their free medical and welfare.
Just as the Iranian Dictators are crumbling….so is the Radical Socialist Party in Sacramento.
They have been in power almost the same time.