‘Governor Eric Swalwell,’ a Fitting Punishment for California’s Sins |
Yes, yes, polls can be wrong, and the California state “jungle primary” won’t be held until June 2. There are 61 (!) candidates on the ballot to be the next governor of California.
In the jungle primary, the top two finishers, regardless of party, end up competing in the general election. For a while, it looked conceivable that the top two finishers would be two Republicans, former Fox News personality Steve Hilton and Riverside County sheriff Chad Bianco. If, by some miracle, Hilton and Bianco finished in the top two spots, the next governor would be a Republican, even though 44 percent of the state’s voters are registered as Democrats, and only 25 percent are registered as Republicans.
Then President Trump endorsed Hilton, which makes it less likely that Bianco will retain enough support to remain in second place.
Right now, the Democrat who appears most likely to finish in the top two is Eric Swalwell… which means that there’s a good chance that Swalwell will be the next governor of California.
Right now, I suspect about one third of you are groaning in recognition and dread of Swalwell, one third are jogging your memories and asking, “wait, that guy?” and one third are not recalling the congressman at all.
Back in 2020, I wrote:
Congressman Eric Swalwell is a giant waste of space. He is a trying-too-hard, gun-confiscation promoting, nuclear-strike-on-Americans endorsing, Biden-death speculating, white-man-who’s-running-to-increase-diversity congressman who was in the 2020 Democratic presidential primary for about ten minutes. He consistently polled at zero in surveys. He broke his promise to not run for Congress........