Source: New York Post
Defiant low-polling California Democrats are refusing to exit the crowded race for governor — even after party chair Rusty Hicks and Gavin Newsom himself told them to drop their longshot bids for the sake of avoiding a doomsday scenario of two Republicans advancing to the November general election. Superintendent Tony Thurmond, ex-Attorney General Xavier Becerra, former Controller Betty Yee and San Jose Mayor Matt Mahan — each polling at around 5% or less — issued defiant statements ahead of a Friday deadline to officially send their names to ballot. “The California Democratic Party is essentially telling every candidate of color in the race for governor to drop out,” Thurmond, who was polling at 2% in a Public Policy Institute of California survey conducted in February, said in a social media video.
