In a year with enormously consequential midterm elections, the most interesting election of all may be the race to succeed Gavin Newsom.
The unusual primary system of California, in which all candidates are listed and the top two move on to the general election regardless of party has raised the very real possibility that this fall could see two Republicans on the ballot, and no Democrats, with a multitude of Democratic candidates crowding the field and giving an opening to the two Republicans in the race: Former Fox News host Steve Hilton, and Riverside county sheriff Chad Bianco.
On Monday, President Trump may have helped alleviate those concerns by endorsing Hilton, potentially pushing Bianco down the ladder and giving an opening to a Democrat … if some of the candidates drop out.
But the race carries national importance, given California’s outsize place in the global economy, and
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