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

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I have never before heard Gavin Newsom described as a NIMBY. That's a new one.

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Nobody is entitled to a senate seat because of skin color or otherwise, D-CO avs. Candidates throwing public tantrums about it just reveals them for the clowns that they are. It's a transparent and self-serving attempt to bypass the democratic process.

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I hope Weber gets appointed and runs herself.  Schiff, Porter and Lee are all pretty lame.

Schiff has a national profile though and he triggers Trump. Even earned two nicknames from him.

Okay, and?

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"This sisterhood of support could crack if Newsom were to offer more than an interim appointment."

Newsom does not have the power to offer "more than an interim appointment". We have this thing called democracy, and there's an election in a year.

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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.

I don't think it would make her the obvious favorite. I do think it would at least boost her enough to put her on par with Schiff and Porter, making it a true 3-way race.

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https://twitter.com/secupp/status/1708464810763919811

Press X to doubt.  Media wishcasting does not make it so.

Also reminder that this is The Daily Mail.

What IS the daily mail? Some tabloid piece or the British answer to Fox News?

A British tabloid with a notorious right-wing bias. I would say it's more equivalent to the New York Post.

Really more like the NY Post crossed with the National Enquirer. The Post's journalism is usually biased but less based around blatant speculation and gossip-mongering.

Yeah, the Post is definitely a tabloid, with all that entails, but comparing it to the Daily Mail is a grave insult to the Post. The British gutter press is really something else.

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I think it's awful how the state party basically picks its senators and then tries to force everyone to support them and it basically works because California is such a big state no one can afford to or has the political base to run a statewide election without the support of the head honchos. That is how they foisted Kamala into the state, who clearly had no intention of staying there from day 1. I hope next year has a truly competitive election but I doubt it.

California is a party-state where Newsom calls the shots. Genuinely competitive elections at the state level simply do not happen. I expect this to continue if Kounalakis succeeds Newsom as Governor.

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Based on the discrepancy between special and general results, I suspect a few percent of voters were treating the special election as a "2nd choice" box as if it were some sort of RCV thing.

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Good riddance to this sore loser trash.
https://twitter.com/katieporteroc/status/1765513523050791023?s=46&t=o2RmfeV6...

https://twitter.com/ScottPresler/status/1765555676644811197

Thank you Katie!