California Governor primary debate.....7 candidates Dems & Repub.....on CNN now.

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47. I don't suppose you remember how Steyer was buying endorsements during his run for President in 2020

I missed the Indivisible Zoom call on Monday, but apparently it was full of misinformation and dogpiling on Porter and Becerra. Coming so soon after Our Revolution's endorsement, it feels like some money has changed hands. That is beyond depressing because that means both of those supposedly progressive organizations have lost all credibility going forward.

The polling leading up to Swalwell's exit is extraordinarily suspicious, given that it normalizes the prospect of at least one Republican candidate (and possibly two), instead of examining why an ex-Brexit advisor like Steve Hilton would want to run for governor, or what makes Chad Bianco, with his abysmal clearance rate (Riverside County ranks at 57th of 57 counties), qualified to run the world's 4th-largest economy. So instead of the Democratic candidates wiping the floor with the two execrable examples of Team Red candidates, they're fighting over who gets the "one spot" on the ticket in November.

The toplines of the CBS /YouGov polls shared last week showed that there is still a ceiling for both Republican candidates: the "would not consider" numbers for both Hilton and Bianco still sit at 48%, and they're only going to go down when people realize that Hilton cannot even admit that Biden won in 2020, and Bianco is a racist who doesn't believe in the 14th amendment.

Swalwell is NOT a "good billionaire." He's flailing right now because he is realizing he'll have spent more than Meg Whitman did in 2010 (when she lost to Jerry Brown), and he won't have the cakewalk Adam Schiff had in 2024. And maybe you have also noticed how Mahan sounds a little like JD Vance (to be expected, since he's also propped up by Peter Thiel money).

The only two candidates who are capable of getting anything done in Sacramento in the near term are the two attorneys, Becerra and Porter. And as much as I really respect Porter, Becerra is the stronger choice, both because he has taken on the special interest, he's actually won statewide, and he knows how to get stuff done in Sacramento.