(#6290) In the California gubernatorial primary I will wait to cast my early mail in ballot.

      Here in California we have a top 2 primary to make it to the ballot for November. So with 2 republicans running who are about equal in popularity with the republican base they could split the republican vote and each end up with somewhere around 20+% of the overall vote. With 8 democratic candidates running at this moment, the split with all of them may leave no democratic candidate with above 20% of the overall vote. In that likely scenario both republican candidates would move on to the governor's race with no democrat on the ballot. Which is why I won't be sending my primary vote in until the very last moment.
     Unless some of the less popular democratic candidates drop out before June 2nd, there is no sure way to know how to vote so as to not make my vote null and void. What we need is for the 2 top democrats to be free of the others who eventually see through polling and persuasion that they are not either going to win or will be an obstacle to any other democrat winning. We democrats may be able to have 3 democratic candidates on the ballot with the 2 republicans and hopefully get a democratic candidate onto the ballot for November but the odds are worse if that is the scenario. So all I can do for now is to wait and see what the very near future brings and then vote just before June 2nd when the primary election is held. I don't like this because it is like playing Russian roulette when there is no need for it!
     I know the aspirations of the ones still left on the democratic side are honorable. Yet there will come a point where personal honor is not above the needs of the many. It would be vain glory reminiscent of trump to stay in the race only to cause the democratic party to lose the governorship. I don't expect that from our California democrats but the timing is getting close to the no turning back point. Democracy is greater than aspiration and democracy needs to be retained in California. If republicans are able to steal this election from us the great state of California will become trumpland with all it's inequalities and punishments. In the next few weeks we need our democratic candidates to coalesce around the best for our amazing state!