Some Democrats Float Strategy of Waiting Until Final Days to Vote In Primary For Governor, Focusing on Frontrunner
Activists say waiting lets Democrats coalesce around the strongest candidate as polls tighten in a 61-candidate race, election officials warned.
- Some California Democrats are urging voters to delay casting ballots until just before Election Day, aiming to strategically support the leading candidate and prevent a split that could lock Democrats out of the November gubernatorial runoff.
- Fear of a Republican shutout has grown as polls show Republican Steve Hilton leading with 22%, with Democrat Xavier Becerra at 20%, while Tom Steyer and Katie Porter trail further behind.
- Attorney General Rob Bonta and Governor Gavin Newsom denounced the campaign last week as 'potentially unlawful' and 'disinformation,' urging voters to cast ballots early to speed processing by all 58 county registrars.
- Political consultant Paul Mitchell warned that organizing such a strategy is nearly impossible, while election advocates caution that late in-person voting creates a 'pig in the python effect' overwhelming county offices.
- Despite official warnings, San Francisco resident Katie Evans-Reber plans to maintain the 'wait and see' strategy, intending to cast her ballot at the final moment to align with the candidate most likely to advance.
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Some Democrats Float Strategy of Waiting Until Final Days to Vote In Primary For Governor, Focusing on Frontrunner
Though it's not likely, Democrats in California run the risk of splitting their votes in the June primary and getting locked out of the November election, so some are arguing for being strategic with your vote.A vote for Matt Mahan or Katie Porter might, at this point, be a throwaway vote in the June 2 primary unless one or the other rises suddenly in the polls to overtake Tom Steyer or Xavier Becerra. Becerra, who's now the subject of some aggr…
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Panicked California Democrats are pushing a risky strategy: Wait ’til the last minute to vote
This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. Some California Democrats have a plan to avoid disaster in the governor’s race: Wait until the last minute to vote. With no one candidate emerging as a clear favorite and an open primary where the top two advance regardless of party affiliation, panic […]
Panicked California Democrats are pushing a risky strategy: Wait till the last minute to vote
This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for its newsletters. Some California Democrats have a plan to avoid disaster in the governor’s race: Wait until the last minute to vote. With no one candidate emerging as a clear favorite and an open primary where the top two advance regardless of party affiliation, panic has set in for some who plan to vote Democratic. To avoid a dreaded scenario in which Democrats are locked out of the…
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