CA-SEN: Feinstein slips up; primary?

[Holmes]

So, Eugene Patterson "Pat" Harris (no relation to Kamala), a big time criminal defense attorney, is running against Feinstein in the Dem primary as a Berniecrat:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=63&v=D07REeTUOSo

Sure, but he's also just Some Guy. No one credible is going to run against Feinstein.

[Holmes]

Harris pretty much cleared the field when Boxer announced she was retiring. I think if Feinstein were to announce, there would be a a big field with another D vs D race.

[Holmes]

Is de Leon still a go too?

Hopefully the gubernatorial and senate races are DvD to lower Republican turnout in swing districts.

[Holmes]

It would be such a disaster for Republicans if they were shut out of the Governor and Senate race, or even any other statewide race.

[Holmes]

He's going to get destroyed.

I don't know. On one hand, people here are tired of Feinstein, but they recognize that she has a lot of seniority and that benefits California. If Clinton were president, I think DiFi would be safe, but with Trump I think people want change, and de Leon has a lot to offer in that regard.

[Holmes]

He's going to get destroyed.

I don't know. On one hand, people here are tired of Feinstein, but they recognize that she has a lot of seniority and that benefits California. If Clinton were president, I think DiFi would be safe, but with Trump I think people want change, and de Leon has a lot to offer in that regard.

Most Democrats are happy enough with their Democratic representatives. De Leon doesn't have enough name recognition or organization to go toe to toe against a state institution like Feinstein. He's probably going to lose 70-30 in the general election against her.

But this would be the second statewide DvD election, and the first one with an incumbent, so we just don't know how Republicans (the ones that bother to turn out) and independents would vote. Not to mention the Democratic coalition in California is not homogenous in the least, so the vote there will be splintered.

[Holmes]

No one knows who Ashley Swearengin even is, and in a Trump midterm, Republicans have a ceiling of 40% in California, and a floor of 0% because they won't even make the general in a few statewide races.

[Holmes]

Apparently TYT is supporting a literal nobody who was affiliated with Cenk Uygur's Super Pac.

Nice framing.

It's literally Some Girl.