CA-GOV: California Democratic chair to governor's race candidates: Drop out if your campaign isn't 'viable'

SACRAMENTO, Calif. —
Amid a crowded race to become the next California governor, the state's Democratic Party Chair urged candidates on Tuesday to consider dropping out if they "do not have a viable path to make it to the General Election."

Rusty Hicks' open letter to Democratic candidates comes after the Democratic Party at a February state convention chose against endorsing anyone in the race for governor for the June primary election. He cited concerns about what having too large a pool of candidates would do in a race where there are two Republicans also in the gubernatorial race.

California's top-two system allows the top two vote-getters, regardless of political affiliation, to advance from the June primary to the November Election.

Hicks said "the likelihood of two Republicans effectively 'locking out'" Democrats from the race is "relatively low" but "not impossible."


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