Dan Pfeiffer

It's also, there's, I wrote in the aforementioned message box a month or so ago, like now it's not time to panic.

I don't think it's time to panic yet, but we're getting close to panic time.

And people are going to, like what's going to have to happen here is people are going to have to think

about what's best for the party and the state and not themselves.

It's going to include all these candidates who do not have a shot to win.

Because if you do not have support now and you do not have money to become known in the most expensive television state in the country, you are not going to win.

There is no path to winning.

It can't happen.

So the best thing you can do is drop out and endorse someone who has a chance to win.

So that's it.

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.