FFS can we PLEASE get some new Dem candidates for CA Senate in 2018?

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102. Sadly, that really isn't how it works in the California Democratic party.

Running to represent 39.5 million people is expensive, and it requires a fairly high degree of name recognition. A LOT of concern about mistiming a race, and killing your political future along with a big percentage of your bank account (think Michael Huffington).

If I had to choose someone right now, I'd probably say the Tom Steyer has the right issues (environmental activism), and a healthy bank account. He didn't have to get out of the race in 2015, but he did, and that helped voters see that Kamala Harris was the best choice on the ballot in 2016.

Now that we have ranked-choice voting in California, the top two from the primary (regardless of party) face off in November. So, technically, anyone who wants to see what they could do against DiFi could make a run for it. But again, if DiFi stays in the race, it will be more expensive and kind of ideologically on par with Clinton/Sanders.

Making things even murkier, if California is really serious about moving the 2020 primary to March and Kamala Harris decides she is ready for a Presidential campaign, we could essentially be right back where we were in the early 90s when Feinstein and Boxer ran and won their seats. We got very lucky then. I have no confidence that we'd be equally as lucky the next time.