California Senate 2024 - Schiff (D) vs Garvey (R)

[Fmr. Gov. NickG]

Still time to implement IRV. A contested primary makes a dem lockout a slightly larger possibility. Seriously guys, change the law before you get burned. 

Are you suggesting moving to the Alaska system, or Maine's system (which would require a return to party primaries, and doesn't use IRV in the primaries), or something else?  Because I'm not sure how this would be implemented to mesh with the Top 2-runoff systems.

[Fmr. Gov. NickG]

Does anyone have a sense or prediction for which Republicans will run?

[Fmr. Gov. NickG]

Newsom appointing Kamala would be getting uneasily close to the literal plot of the first season House of Cards.

[Fmr. Gov. NickG]

If Lee actually were appointed, do people think she would win the primary? It seems to me like CA voters are pretty sick of having an octogenarian senator. And appointed Senators lose primaries all the time.

[Fmr. Gov. NickG]

Do you have reason to believe that California voters are sick of having an octogenarian senator, or is that just how you would personally feel? The last time they had a choice, California voters overwhelmingly reelected an 85-year-old to the Senate, and in the 2020 Democratic primary the top two candidates by a huge margin were Bernie Sanders and Joe Biden. I'm sure you know that age is rarely a barrier to being elected in this country and I'm not sure why it seems to you that all of a sudden things would be different in California.

My reason is that Lee is currently polling in single digits in every poll.
And the discourse within the party about having octegenarians in office right now is much different than it was 5 years ago.

If Newsome appointed Lee contingent on her not running for the full term, that would really be the best option. But it seems like Lee has not intention of doing that.

[Fmr. Gov. NickG]

Hilarious how Barbara Lee is somehow too old when she's 4 years younger than Biden.

1.) Biden is running for a second and final 4-year term, while Lee would be running for a first 6-year term.

2.) Biden is also too old.

[Fmr. Gov. NickG]

I guess Lee literally bullied her way into a seat.

https://twitter.com/andrewdesiderio/status/1708600537367621936?s=46&t=XC6qQa...


At least we aren’t getting Senator Schiff

Wasn’t this always true? Like, there’s nothing legally stopping the appointee from running for the full term regardless of what she tells Newsom.

[Fmr. Gov. NickG]

https://twitter.com/rpyers/status/1708680810617008539

If she runs and people support her, I don't want to hear anything about McCormick living in CT.

I grew up in Silver Spring, MD.  And I don’t care how much every likes Fleetwood Mac.
It’s Silver Spring, not Silver Springs.