Matt Mahan

There has been very low enthusiasm for the field up until now.

People are now starting to tune in.

And I'm saying something very different.

And I think what you're going to see as we march toward Election Day is people hear that message.

I think it's going to resonate.

I'm seeing that as I travel around the state.

I was down on the border.

looking at the crisis of raw sewage flowing into the country through the Tijuana River.

I walked a skid row and we talked about the failures on homelessness, Altadena and the Palisades and our issues with how slow and expensive it is to build housing.

As we go around the state and talk to people about what's broken and why and how to fix it, we're getting an enthusiastic response.

My biggest challenge is most Californians still don't know who I am.

So thank you for letting me on the

Look, I'm a different kind of Democrat who reserves the right to think for myself, be independent in my thinking about policy issues and solutions.

But I still believe the Democratic Party is fixable.

I grew up in a party whose core values I deeply identify with.

I grew up in a working class community where my folks and most people we lived around were generally paycheck to paycheck.

And when the party gets back to its roots and gets back to solving problems, we expand opportunity for people.

We create better schools.

We build infrastructure.

We make sure the economy is inclusive and that people don't get left behind.