Politico Joins Democrat Angst Fest Over Being Locked Out of California Governor Race

Newsbusters ^ | April 2, 2026 | P.J. Gladnick

[PJ-Comix]

It's the Great Fear that has been haunting California Democrats, and especially Politico, since they noticed the possibility last December that because of the Democrats splitting the votes among each other in the open gubernatorial primary in June. The two top candidates could end up being Republicans, thus locking Democrats out of the November general election.

The angst over this possibility has only increased dramatically since then, with the latest poll results sending poor Politico over the edge to the extent they have completely dropped even the bare pretense of objectivity as they MindMeld with the Democrats in deep deep concern as you see with senior politics reporter Jeremy B. White furiously rubbing the worry beads on Wednesday in "Democrats risk a historic upset in California."

White might have written his panic piece on April Fool's Day and the joke appears to be on the Democrats as illustrated by the subtitle: "How the party in America's bluest state could lock itself out of the governor’s race."

[CFW]

I think the Democrats will keep pecking at Swalwell by releasing negative info about him and eventually push him out. They haven’t been fighting back too hard about the questions of his residency and, of course, his fang-fang episode being back in the news.

[Mr. Blond]

The DNC can just withhold money too.

[fwdude]

So, is the CA legislature now working to quickly change the election system, ex post facto?

[A strike]

Would be awesome , but, probably not.
Dems will insure that they are on the ballot even if they have to kill one of their own (ahem, hillary) ..

[humblegunner]

LOL!!!

You have a cute little laugh, Peejay.

[gunnut]

Isn’t Steyer a .com billionaire? This is more a vanity thing than a money thing. He could be bought with power but I doubt with money.