Anthony Zurcher

Right.

He, in his speech last night, said that he was broken, that he came back broken from Afghanistan and Iraq, and he said that it was Maine and the people of Maine who put him back together again, who healed him.

Yeah.

And not just for his taste in tacos, as we've talked about in the past.

But he's going to be on the on the general election ballot running against Xavier Becerra, the Democrat, former cabinet secretary for for Biden.

So he made the cut.

He made the top two in the California jungle primary, as they call it.

So now he's going to have a chance to make the case to.

the California population writ large, that he is an alternative to the Democrats who have controlled California state politics for, gosh, going all the way back to Arnold Schwarzenegger in the early 2000s.

It's been a while.

Unlikely.

It's still an uphill climb in California.

There are a lot of Republicans in California, but there are a lot more Democrats.

I mean, it's a 60-40 Democratic state by most accounts.

So he is going to have to find some kind of way of convincing Democrats and independents, but even some Democrats, to cross the aisle and vote for him.

He may have to do that in a way that separates him from Donald Trump.

And I'm not sure he's capable of doing that because Donald Trump is very unpopular in California.

So it's a narrow path, particularly this November when it seems like if there are political wins, they're blowing against the Republicans and not at their back.

You know, I mean, it's the way the system is set up.

If you mail a ballot and it's postmarked on Election Day, then it can be counted.