Posted on 04/13/2026 12:18:49 PM PDT by Libloather
A new text poll is asking California voters if they would write in former Vice President Kamala Harris on to the ballot for the California governor’s race.
The poll, according to shared screenshots, lists three to four questions on the California Democrat.
It asked about the chances of the voter writing in Harris’s name, and then it asked in the scenario that Harris was actually running a write-in campaign, who the voter would elect.
The survey then asks the voter whether he or she thinks the process of writing someone is easy or not.
According to the California Secretary of State, a candidate must file a statement of write-in candidacy between April 6 and May 19.
Then write-in nomination papers must be circulated and left with a county elections official in that same time period.
Such an effort to qualify would be easy for Harris, who early in the election season was anticipated as the dominant favorite had she chosen to jump into the governor’s race.
“Takes a whopping 65 signatures!” commented Paul Mitchell, vice president of Political Data Inc, a bipartisan voter data firm.
News of the poll comes coincidentally right when leading Democratic candidate Rep. Eric Swalwell dramatically quit the governor’s race after reported accusations on Friday of sexual misconduct.
Competitors are jostling for Swalwell’s voters, but the leading Democratic candidates to take those votes — former Congresswoman Katie Porter and billionaire Tom Steyer — could also have baggage of their own, observers noted.
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Great news! She will not get the 15 Fartwell was getting but neither will any other rodents! Go Camel Hump, go!!
HOORAY!!! My investment in the destructive power of her book keeps paying GREAT dividends.
lol please😂
No...NO....NO!!
Haven’t we in this state (CA) been punished enough already?
Gov. Jerry Brown endorsed Kamala in 2016 for her senate campaign. He seemed to imply that Kamala would ‘bend over backwards’ and do whatever it took to pull the state out of that mild recession of that time.
Of course: she becomes an accidental candidate in yet another consequential race.
Go Kamel, go!
My bet is Pelosi did. Harris isn't that smart. This has got Miss Nancy's fingerprints all over it.
I’m trying to figure out who would be worse for California - Harris or Newsom. It’s hurting my head.
Go for it; it thins out the democrat leads.
Is she a CA resident?
“The governor is the person, man or woman, or any other gender for that matter, haha, who is the highest person in California that we can vote for. We need to vote, I don’t care what Donald Trump says. When I say highest, I don’t mean high on drugs. What did you think I meant? Hahaha!
I would love to be governor, but I would rather be president. They took that away from me, Biden and his people. I wrote a book about it. A book is...never mind, now getting back to what I was saying...hahahahaha...
Isn’t that the Richard Nixon model?
This could be Operation Chaos 2.0! Encourage your friends/relatives in CA who are going to vote Democrat in the primary to write in Kamala to ensure no Democrat makes the top 2. Do it in Rush’s memory.
I think promoting this idea is brilliant. It would further dilute the Democrat vote.
If her written-in name is misspelled, is it invalid.
Should be, but Dems will cite ‘the intent of the voter.’
This plan assumes Democrats know how to write. That is a stretch.
OK, the pieces are falling into place.
YES! YES! YES!
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