Elections California Officially Moves 2020 Presidential Primary to Super Tuesday!

California moves up 2020 presidential primary to Super Tuesday
By Max Greenwood - 09/27/17

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California Gov. Jerry Brown (D) on Wednesday signed a measure moving the state's 2020 presidential primary to March — a move likely to give the nation's most populous state more sway in the nominating contest.

California has typically held its primary in June, often weeks after the eventual Republican and Democratic presidential nominees have rounded up the delegates to secure their party's nomination.

But under the legislation signed Wednesday, California's primary would fall on Super Tuesday, when several other states hold their primaries, forcing candidates to compete more aggressively in the Golden State.

Brown did not issue a statement with his signature. But California Secretary of State Alex Padilla, who backed the move, said that the new date would prompt candidates to focus on issues relevant to his state's voters.

“The Golden State will no longer be relegated to last place in the presidential nominating process,” he said in a statement. “Candidates will not be able to ignore the largest, most diverse state in the nation as they seek our country’s highest office."

The Democratic Party could penalize California for moving up its primary by stripping dozens of delegates from the state's overall count. But according to the Sacramento Bee, California would still make up a sizable share of the delegates available up to that point in the nominating process.

http://thehill.com/homenews/state-w...up-2020-presidential-primary-to-super-tuesday
LOL, so they're moving it back.

I wish all our State Dems were in the room so I could slap them with a big fat Colbert "I Told You So".
 
LOL, so they're moving it back.

I wish all our State Dems were in the room so I could slap them with a big fat Colbert "I Told You So".

The DNC is so broke without Hillary's corporate Rolodex, I don't think they have the balls to take away the delegates that they threatened to take away from CA last time.

Whether they're willing to admit it or not, sexual predators and other moral compasses with deep pockets in Hollywood is where the establishment's picks must go to fill their war chests now.
 
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Said it before and I'll say it again. I'm going to keep saying it. Kamela Harris Democratic nominee 2020. She's a female, she's African-American and she wants free healthcare. It's like a liberals wet dream.

Everyone could see what the plan was for Obama as soon as he won a Senate seat.

So keep saying it, is not a slick call when the opponent is showing you his cards.
 
Super Tuesday is here! But Kamala is not <Lmaoo>

The speed in which California's own candidate fell to utter irrelevancy in her own state in this election is absolutely astounding.

California's primary ballots arrive by mail the day Iowa caucuses. That's a campaign dilemma

Sam Metz, Palm Springs Desert Sun | Jan. 20, 2020

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The 494 delegates California will send to the Democratic National Convention in July have earned the state's primary election the nickname "the big enchilada" among presidential candidates. But, this year, the enchilada is spicier.

A majority of voters in the Golden State vote by mail and will receive ballots on Feb. 3, the same day as the Iowa caucus. That's months earlier than in recent years. The mail ballots' early delivery date presents Democratic presidential candidates with a dilemma: Should they invest heavily in the first four states to vote (Iowa, New Hampshire, Nevada and South Carolina) with the hope of amassing momentum leading into Super Tuesday on March 3, when California and 13 other states vote?

Or should they campaign more broadly from the start, and focus on California from the get-go?

California is the most populous state, and it awards more than double the total delegates that come from the first four states to vote.

Since 1988, future Democratic nominees have all received a majority of the vote in California, with the exception of then-Sen. Barack Obama, who lost to then-Sen. Hillary Clinton in 2008 by 18 percentage points. California has successfully predicted the primary winner in each of the Republican contests since 1988.

With six weeks to go, the battle for California Democrats' votes is heating up.

Polling shows Sen. Bernie Sanders, Sen. Elizabeth Warren and former Vice President Joe Biden leading the rest of the crowded field in California. Those three candidates have double-digit leads over former South Bend, Ind., Mayor Pete Buttigieg, Sen. Amy Klobuchar, businessman Tom Steyer, former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg and other remaining candidates.

Poll shows Sanders surging in California


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A Public Policy Institute of California survey conducted in January — the first since Sen. Kamala Harris's withdrawal from the race — put Sanders in the lead with 27% of likely Democratic voters, ahead of Biden (24%) and Warren (23%). The survey had a +/- 6.5 percentage-point margin of error.

The poll showed Sanders surging. In PPIC's November poll, only 17% of likely primary voters surveyed had marked him as their top choice.

The poll showed Biden leading voters older than 45, with 32% support, ahead of Warren (22%) and Sanders (15%). It showed Sanders leading among voters ages 18-44; he had 45% support, ahead of Warren (25%) and Biden (12%).

“The Democratic presidential primary remains a close contest between Bernie Sanders, Joe Biden, and Elizabeth Warren,” said PPIC President Mark Baldassare. “Biden is seen as the candidate with the best chance of defeating Trump, while Sanders has strong support among younger voters.”

The poll, however, only included the five candidates who qualified for the Jan. 14 Democratic debate in Iowa. That left out entrepreneur Andrew Yang, businessman Tom Steyer and former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who has invested significant resources in staffing and advertising in California. Bloomberg has bypassed campaigning in Iowa and New Hampshire to focus on Super Tuesday and appeared in Northern California on Friday and Southern California on Saturday.

Sanders, Biden and Warren were also clustered at the top of the field in California in a Capitol Weekly poll conducted Jan. 3-9 and a CNN poll conducted in early December.

Sanders, who campaigned heavily in California in the 2016 Democratic primary against Clinton, has hired 80 campaign staffers to work in more than a dozen offices throughout the state. Bloomberg isn't far behind in terms of commitment, having hired more than two dozen staffers. Chris Myers, who's leading Bloomberg's California campaign operations, told the Sacramento Bee that the Bloomberg team intended to build the largest statewide operation in California history.

In California, which is known as one of the nation's progressive bastions, Sanders and Warren have outperformed compared to nationwide polls. Polling averages calculated by FiveThirtyEight show Biden with an average of 26.2% support in recent national polls, ahead of Sanders (19.2%), Warren (16.4%) and Buttigieg (6.8%).

He may be trailing in most California polls, but Buttigieg joins the front runners in early-to-vote states like Iowa, where he garnered 25% support in a Monmouth University poll released last week, putting him in second behind Biden (28%) and ahead of Sanders (24%) and Warren (16%). A strong performance in Iowa could give him momentum on Super Tuesday.

Sanders polling well among Latinos


Unlike Iowa and New Hampshire, the first two states to vote, California is one of the nation’s most ethnically diverse states. Of its 40 million residents, 39% are Hispanic and 15% are of Asian descent, according to census data. The state has more than 20 million registered voters.

A November poll conducted by the Latino Community Foundation showed Sanders leading among Latino likely primary voters with 31% support, ahead of Biden (23%) and Warren (11%).

“The message we want all Latinos to hear is that they have the power to determine who is going to run against Trump and who will win in November,” Jacqueline Martinez, the CEO of the Latino Community Foundation told USA TODAY.

“The political climate we are in has awoken a new generation of voters,” she said. “I hate the term sleeping giant, because we’ve been working, not sleeping. Now the candidates have to engage.”

Californians' No. 1 issue: homelessness

Californians surveyed in the January PPIC poll identified homelessness as their top issue of concern. California contains a higher share of individuals experiencing homelessness than any other state. More than 150,000 people are living in shelters, on the street or in cars at any given time.

Among survey respondents, 20% said homelessness was the top issue they wanted Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) and the Democratic-led state legislature to address in 2020, up 5 percentage points from September, when 15% said it was the top issue they wanted the state government to address. Throughout California, homelessness ranked as a higher priority than housing costs, the economy, immigration or healthcare.

President Donald Trump has attempted to use homelessness as a cudgel against California, blaming the state's liberal politicians for the severity of the crisis. Several candidates and their surrogates have toured homeless encampments and low-income housing in places like Los Angeles' Skid Row, including Sanders and Buttigieg's husband, Chasten Buttigieg.

California-specific concerns like wildfires are also getting some attention from candidates. On Friday in Monterey, Bloomberg proposed addressing the increasingly severe wildfires that have ravaged California by creating a "Wildfire Corps" composed of thousands of workers who would be tasked with increasing fire resilience in rural and forest communities, restoring healthy forest ecosystems and assisting firefighters during wildfires.

Bloomberg has spent around $200 million


Buttigieg's "wine cave" fundraiser in the Napa Valley, and Warren's subsequent criticism of it, once again catapulted California's deep pockets into the national spotlight. The Coachella Valley has hosted many pricey fundraisers over the years; Jeb Bush, Obama and most recently Buttigieg have hosted ticketed fundraisers at private homes, selling tickets for up to $2,800, the current federal limit for individual campaign contributions.

Campaign finance reports from the fourth quarter of 2019 will not be released by the Federal Elections Commission until the end of January. However, among candidates still in the race now, Buttigieg led in fundraising in California with more than $7 million in campaign contributions up to Sept. 30. Biden had $4.8 million, Sanders had $4.6 million, Warren had $4.2 million, Yang had $1.4 million and Klobuchar had $1.1 million.

Bloomberg, who is self-financing his campaign and has spent more than $196 million since entering the race, has spent heavily to flood vote-rich markets like Los Angeles with advertisements. Nationwide, he's spent $164 million on television spots and $22 million on digital advertisements. Likely because he's skipping the early primary states, most of Bloomberg's ads have been broadcast in large Super Tuesday states like California and Texas, according to Advertising Analytics, a data firm that tracks campaign spending.

Endorsements


Many of California's prominent Democratic politicians hesitated to make endorsements while their home-state senator, Harris, remained in the race. But since her withdrawal, a flood of Golden State politicians have lined up behind their candidates of choice.

Bloomberg has netted endorsements from Stockton Mayor Michael Tubbs, San Jose Mayor Sam Liccardo and U.S. Rep. Harley Rouda, a Democrat who represents southwestern Orange County after defeating longtime GOP Rep. Dana Rohrbacher in 2018.

Warren has received endorsements from state Sen. Scott Wiener of San Francisco; U.S. Rep. Katie Porter, a former law professor who, like Warren, specializes in consumer protection; and Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez of San Diego, who authored the controversial labor law AB 5.

Biden has lined up support from Sen. Dianne Feinstein and Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti, who at one point considered running for president himself.

Sanders's campaign has highlighted the senator's more than 300 California endorsements, including from the entire city council in the city of Coachella, and U.S. Rep. Ro Khanna, who represents the Silicon Valley area.

Steyer has received endorsements from former state lawmaker Fran Pavley, who authored California's landmark carbon emissions trading legislation in 2006, and Assemblyman Eduardo Garcia, D-Coachella, who currently serves as chair of the Assembly's Water, Parks, and Wildlife Committee.

In 2016, Steyer, a former hedge-fund manager, spent millions to advertise for Garcia's set of bills that proposed more ambitious limits on greenhouse gas emissions in California. Last year, he toured communities lacking access to reliable, clean water in the eastern Coachella Valley with Garcia.

Andrew Yang has received endorsements from Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey and Bay Area Assemblyman Evan Low.

High-profile California politicians including Newsom, Harris, San Francisco Mayor London Breed, Lt. Gov. Eleni Kounalakis and State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tony Thurmond have yet to back a candidate.

https://www.desertsun.com/story/new...lection-ballots-arrive-mail-feb-3/4482789002/
 
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It's a pretty transparent move to try and secure the nomination for Harris.

The south and Midwest simply won't support her (her support for gun control is a non-starter for the liberty loving folks of God's Country, U.S.A.), so California is moving up it's primary in an attempt to get a west coast elite the nomination.

Can we please have a political/business/entertainment vBookie betting subforum before the next election?

I'd like to lock down Kamala Harris' nomination while the odds are still good :cool:

Said it before and I'll say it again. I'm going to keep saying it. Kamela Harris Democratic nominee 2020. She's a female, she's African-American and she wants free healthcare. It's like a liberals wet dream.


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These threads are always great for look backs.

They really are. I gave a chuckle emoji, but there was a lot of sentiment that Harris was the hand picked next face of the democratic party. Good to remember what things looked like even just a couple years ago, whether right or wrong

@Lead 's bet thread when not used to handle petty squabbles can be good for that, to see how people thought things would play out vs what comes to transpire
 
Not even sure. Vbookie mods but idk who that is
Hmm...
Interesting. I wonder if they can find odds and get a thread up. I'll ask.
 
Swing and a miss.
I forgot to take into account how much Democrats hate anyone who holds up the law

I'm chalking it up to California continues marching much further left than Kamala, that means most are rooting for Sanders/Warren and whoever's left near the center are rooting for Joe Biden. The rest of the candidates who flounders about in the space between stands no chance.

Also, there's also the issue of Kamala's campaign being a rudderless boat...


‘No discipline. No plan. No strategy.’: Kamala Harris campaign in meltdown

Campaign manager Juan Rodriguez is taking the most heat for the failings, but his defenders point their finger at the candidate's sister, Maya Harris.

https://www.politico.com/news/2019/11/15/kamala-harris-campaign-2020-071105
 
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Mike Bloomberg has California to himself as Democratic field focuses on Iowa
Alexei Koseff Feb. 3, 2020

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SACRAMENTO — As his rivals for the Democratic presidential nomination made their final pitches to Iowa voters on Monday, Mike Bloomberg was 1,700 miles away at a midtown Sacramento coffee shop.

The early-morning meet-and-greet was the first stop on the former New York mayor’s latest campaign swing through California, a linchpin in his strategy to skip the early voting states in favor of amassing support in the biggest, most delegate-rich primaries.

And no prize is bigger than California — 494 delegates awarded through a complex mix of statewide and district-level results that could ultimately benefit multiple top-performing candidates. Bloomberg’s schedule Monday also included planned stops in Fresno, Compton (Los Angeles County), Seal Beach (Orange County) and Riverside.

In brief remarks to several dozen curious onlookers and a handful of hardcore fans, Bloomberg skipped policy issues almost entirely and instead emphasized his path to victory.

“I am running to defeat Donald Trump, but also to put the united back in the United States. We are not together, and we have to be,” Bloomberg said.

“If you’re going to unite the country, maybe it would be nice to unite everybody in the country,” he said.

Bloomberg, 77, didn’t enter the race until November, and is blanketing the airwaves with ads and has set up state operations across the country to make up for his late start. He has already spent more than $200 million of his $54 billion fortune on the campaign, drawing some criticism from opponents that he is trying to buy the nomination.

His California campaign has opened 20 offices and hired 300 staffers, and is sending mail with messages targeted to seven regions, said Crystal Strait, his political director for the state.

A strong performance here is critical for Bloomberg, who was introduced Monday morning by state Treasurer Fiona Ma, a recent endorser. California is one of 14 states set to vote on Super Tuesday, March 3, when Bloomberg hopes to reshape whatever momentum other candidates have established in the early-voting states of Iowa, New Hampshire, Nevada and South Carolina.

“Super Tuesday is our first real showing with voters,” Strait said. “In California, we have to create our own narrative.”

So far Bloomberg is the choice of about 4% of California’s Democratic primary voters, according to an average of polls by RealClearPolitics.com — good enough for fifth, and well short of the 15% threshold to win delegates.

Some of those supporters showed up to his Sacramento event to meet Bloomberg, including Lexis Allen, an 82-year-old attorney and lifelong Republican who said she switched her party registration two weeks ago to vote for Bloomberg in the Democratic primary.

Although she voted for Trump in 2016, Allen said she could not vote for him again because “he has no concept of what it is to be president.” She said she did not like the rest of the Democratic field, but was drawn to Bloomberg’s accomplishments in three terms as New York mayor.

Most attendees, however, seemed to be feeling out their choices in an unsettled field. Stevante Clark, the 27-year-old brother of Stephon Clark, who was killed by Sacramento police in 2018, came to find out whether Bloomberg had a criminal justice plan. He took pictures with the candidate and was wooed by the campaign before leaving, still undecided and waiting for a plan that is “good for the community.”

Malia Yang, 54, a retired graphic designer, said she was torn between several options, but wanted to know more about Bloomberg after matching closely with him in an online quiz of candidates’ positions. She said she would probably choose the candidate who came across as most charismatic and trustworthy: “I don’t want to vote for a candidate who seems old,” she said.

Reflecting later on the event, however, she said that while she liked what Bloomberg is saying, she had decided she would cast her primary vote for someone younger — either Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, age 70, or Sen. Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota, age 59.

https://www.sfchronicle.com/politic...erg-has-California-to-himself-as-15026643.php
 
It's a pretty transparent move to try and secure the nomination for Harris.

The south and Midwest simply won't support her (her support for gun control is a non-starter for the liberty loving folks of God's Country, U.S.A.), so California is moving up it's primary in an attempt to get a west coast elite the nomination.
This. Also California really has wonky and weird likes and interests. Making the Dems appeal to California will further alienate the Dems that aren't on the coasts
 
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