Dan Pfeiffer

feeling that it is incumbent upon everyone who has a platform, from Gavin Newsom, Adam Schiff, Alex Padilla, people who talk into microphones, people who post on social media, to at some point in the near future say, these are the candidates who have a chance to win.

Pick one of them.

And a vote for anyone else is a vote for a Republican governor of California.

This actually went down in a House race or two in like 2018.

Yeah, I remember that.

Because this comes up periodically when you have a lot of Democrats running and two Republicans.

You're going to end up

in this situation.

And we've, we've successfully navigated those.

That's easier to do at a house race level than a statewide level, but people are going to have to, we have to say, and it's going to be uncomfortable because the most, most, most, most likely scenario is those three candidates are going to be Eric Swalwell, Tom Steyer, Kitty Porter.

It's California is it is a huge state.

It's an expensive state.

No one knows who anyone is other than the governor and the senators.

These these candidates, even though you're right.

But Sarah was the attorney general in the in Biden's agency as secretary and a member of Congress for a long time.

No one knows very much about him.

The same thing.

All these other people you're mentioning, other than Matt Mann, are state elected officials.

They have run statewide and no one knows anything.

And they don't have the money to introduce themselves.