Seeking 2020 clout, California looks to jump the primary queue

[stevenleser]

16. Unintended consequence: Even bigger advantage to better funded candidates.

It is VERY expensive to run a statewide campaign in California.

One of the advantages of the existing primary setup is that relatively poorer candidates could compete in Iowa and New Hampshire and then fund-raise on their successes and perhaps move forward.

If you have California following close on the heels of those two states, you better have a big wad of cash from the early get go or you are going to be blown out in California and have a huge delegate deficit right off the bat from which to try to recover. That is going to also negatively impact any future fundraising you try to do.