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How California’s Democratic primary became a giant flop

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Nobody even cares who wins,” said Steve Maviglio, a Democratic strategist in Sacramento. “It’s about who comes in second.” State Treasurer John Chiang, lagging far behind in the race, released an ad recently with a more biting assessment.

"The race for governor,” he said, “has turned into a scam.”

If Newsom and Villaraigosa advance to the November election, it’s possible that they will engage in the kind of spirited, ideological debate that Democrats once envisioned for the 2018 campaign.

But for California Democrats and progressives looking West for inspiration, the race has already taken on the scent of a missed opportunity. Democrats here first circled 2018 on their calendars nearly four years ago, when Gov. Jerry Brown was reelected to a fourth and final term. As the national party fractured, the state emerged as a pole of the Trump resistance, leaving many eager to see heavily Democratic California assert a baseline set of issues for the national party — including on immigration, health care and, more emphatically than in most other states, climate change.
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“We now live in the world of Donald Trump,” Davis said. “He dominates every news cycle. His entire goal is to occupy the news hole so no one else in public life gets any attention.”
https://www.politico.com/story/2018/06/04/california-governor-democratic-primary-flop-618628

Democrats bungling...yet again......this time because Trump owns them.
 
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Democrats bungling...yet again......

So the largest most populous state in the country with an economy larger than all but five entire countries is probably not even going to let a Republican run for governor at all, and you think that's a sign that Democrats are bungling?
 
So the largest most populous state in the country with an economy larger than all but five entire countries is probably not even going to let a Republican run for governor at all, and you think that's a sign that Democrats are bungling?

Making it all about Trump is the bungling.....this did not work for Hillary, this has not worked for anyone.... and yet here they are, running this oft failed plan yet again.

When are Democrats going to wise up?
 
I know this as I live in California. This state is becoming such a craphole.
 
As with all primary's this years is no different. The idea that it is beholding to rumputin is a republican talking point. John Cox is not a good candidate.
 
Life here in CA is great. Have you considered leaving?

It might make you happier.

Really? Cause it has high taxes, bull**** laws, etc. I may leave eventually when I have money. To Texas or Wyoming maybe.
 
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