California Democrats are proof positive that humans are not an intelligent species.

Here in Calif we have a unique primary system - a single primary for *all* parties. The top two move onto the general election, the rest are out of the game.

So here we have two R's splitting a smaller part of the electorate and a dozen D's splitting a larger part.

The result is that it is likely that the two R's will get larger vote counts than any of the dozen D's. Thus *only* those two R's will move onto the general election and *ALL* of the D's will be sent to the showers. And California will end up with a conservative R governor despite the state being overwhelmingly D.

The key is that at least ten of the D candidates need to drop out, IMMEDIATELY. But they are squabbling like D's normally do about identity politics and other stupid things.

"California governor poll raises prospect of two Republicans contesting runoff"

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/24/california-governor-election-republicans