Posted on 03/19/2019 7:16:33 AM PDT by Red Badger
A Democratic presidential primary field that already embraces the Green New Deal and has floated ideas like reparations and guaranteed jobs could drift even further left thanks to a quirk in this year’s primary calendar.
Unlike past elections, California will hold its primary early in the season – on March 3, 2020. That means the West Coast state, and its famously liberal voters, will hold extra influence this cycle. And while the 2020 candidates still have to connect with supporters in earliest-voting Iowa and New Hampshire – with their more moderate-leaning electorates – California’s combination of an early primary and massive delegate count could motivate the field to run decisively in the progressive lane from the start.
“The Democratic electorate is much more progressive than almost any state,” said Roger Salazar, spokesman for the California Democratic Party. “All of that is going to help bring up some of the core issues Californians care about.”
He listed the environment, health care, immigration and economic injustice as top issues among California Democrats – incidentally, issues that many 2020 candidates are already talking about. Climate change, in particular, has been a rallying cry for candidates, with Washington Gov. Jay Inslee making it the centerpiece of his campaign. Salazar said he’s already seen an ad from Inslee – the earliest primary ad he’s ever witnessed in the state.
“I think Californians are ready for 2020,” he said. “It’s already begun.”
In another sign of California’s emerging influence this cycle, putative front-runner Sen. Bernie Sanders plans to visit the state this week.
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Maybe we can do another operation Chaos? Force Democrats into a chaotic Wisconsin Convention. It will be like Chicago ‘68.
The scary thing is how much of the electorate is onboard with this. And if current trends persist they’ll be in the majority in about a decade.
The further left they go, they eventually fall off the edge...............
Once they have the nomination, why would any Democrat ever go back to California? It is theirs no matter what.
I know it is for the big bucks from rallies, but you would think their supporters would donate even if they did not show up.
Bernie Sanders winning the primary in California would present a real challenge to the establishment Dems and their pals in the corporate media who have gone out of their way to ignore him and his supporters.
California needs a rectal exam of their ongoing and organized voter fraud ASAP. My bet is that Newsom didn’t win and Prop 6 passed.
Calling Judicial Watch to expose even more CA voter fraud all the way up the CA Marxist Liberal food chain.
They have complete and total control now. California is lost forever........................
2016 democratic CA Primary Bernie got 43% against Hillary.
This means an illegal voter in California will have the impact of two or three legal democrat primary voters in states with later primaries.
Followed by virulent Jew-hating moslems in our Congress?
They imported the electorate that will keep them in power. With illegals and 16 year olds voting, all is lost forever.
The smartest guy I know said that couldn’t happen.
He was wrong, sadly.
Doesn’t matter who said it, doesn’t diminish its truth................
Based on his 2016 performance, Sanders should rightfully be considered the front runner for the Democrats in 2020. He has a political base and infrastructure in all 50 states.
Winning an early primary in California would give Sanders a strong leg up on the other candidates. Stopping Sanders in California has got to be job one for Kamala Harris and her big corporate backers.
Good. Maybe it’ll pull them
all the way off the continent.
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