Elder is one of like 40 candidates on the ballot.
Far and away the best known Republican, though.
The California Republican Party was its usual stupid self in not getting behind one candidate and running hard.
Not many Democrats are going to vote ‘yes’, and they were too dumb to unite behind a back-up candidate, so very unlikely that Newsome is both voted out and a Dem voted in. Obviously not impossible, but would require a level of ineptitude unusual even for my fellow Californians.