Morning Joe is saying Harris may endorse in Oakland this morning!!!!!!

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13. LA Times: "as many as 4 in 10 Californians may have already voted."

"And what about those who cast ballots for Amy Klobuchar, Pete Buttigieg or Tom Steyer, all of whom announced in the last few days that they were dropping out? Their votes simply won’t count. As this newspaper reported on Sunday, almost half of the 20 Democrats whose names appear on the California primary ballot have pulled out of the race."

This is serious since a solid majority of those voters would have voted for Biden or whichever honorable and true Democratic Party candidate seemed their best chance for winning the nomination.

Early voting also makes strategic voting more difficult. Say you voted for Elizabeth Warren a month ago, ... you thought she’d be a better general election candidate. Well, she’s now looking like such a long shot that a vote for Warren is likely to be a vote wasted — and there’s nothing you can do about it.

Or let’s say you’re an anyone-but-Biden or anyone-but-Bernie voter. If you voted for someone who subsequently dropped out, you may have helped the candidate you were trying to thwart.

Or, imagine that you like Bernie’s overall message, and you voted for him on the first day you could. Then, in the last month, more came out about his support for authoritarian regimes, and now you’re horrified. Well, too bad.

https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-03-02/column-early-voting-is-a-terrible-idea-and-californias-primary-proves-it