Dan Pfeiffer

In all your reporting, for people who aren't from California, haven't been paying attention to the race, why is this the field?

That just made me think, not to get us off on a tangent, but don't you think that's the future or where we are now of national politics at the presidential level too?

It just seems like if you go back, the nominees of each party, who the president ended up being for the last 10, 15 years, just the way the attention economy works now, if you are not famous, it is very hard to become famous out of nowhere in national politics on a national level.

But Sarah, he's one person like surprisingly absent in your piece.

Is that did they did they not give you an interview?

I'm trying to figure out.

The surge is real with Becerra.

It's now been a number of polls where he's either tied for first or right after that.

And the money has followed.

And I'm just like, what happened?

I thought Matt Mahan was aggressive in a way that he needs to get attention.

And so I thought he did.

He did well there.

Steyer took a lot of incoming, which I was surprised, I guess, because he's still kind of the frontrunner.

And so it was a lot of people attacking Steyer.

Becerra didn't seem like... I thought Becerra and Katie Porter were both kind of quiet in the debate.

They didn't have a lot of big moments.

Newsom told you he wouldn't endorse unless it's a break glass moment.

What's your read from talking to him, both his relative absence in this race and his seemingly inevitable 2028 campaign?

It is.