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Literally I don\u2019t understand why the Democrats didn\u2019t even run a backup candidate just in case Newsom does get recalled\u2026.like rn it\u2019s literally all republicans so if he gets recalled the vote will basically be \u201cchose the least crazy/bigoted/anti mask/vaccine republicans on the ballot\u201d which is none of them lol

Idk I feel like the Democrats are too easy to beat like they just do dumb shit all the time that endangers what little power they actually have

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The California Democratic Party is a delicately balanced combination of demographic and geographic interests; successions are planned ahead of time through horse-trading and ticket-balancing. Using an unscheduled election to short the reigning faction for the sake of throwing a free-for-all faction fight is not something I’m sure the party would survive intact.

I have a college buddy who did state politics for Google, he explains that cabinet positions are an alternate prize \u2013 that’s what Hilda Solis at Labor under Obama was, a payoff to Gil Cedillo’s Latino Caucus machine \u2013 but the 2016 plan was for several figures to graduate to Hillary’s cabinet. This is also, I suspect, why their senators remain in office, because apres them comes the deluge.

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