Republican Dodgers legend Steve Garvey rising in California Senate race

[Pens1566]

at 48% votes counted:
Schiff: 33.2%
Garvey: 32.5%
Porter: 13.8%
. . .

If Schiff straight up wins the primary, he will stomp the general.

Yep, pretty much.

 

[fskimospy]

at 48% votes counted:
Schiff: 33.2%
Garvey: 32.5%
Porter: 13.8%
. . .

If Schiff straight up wins the primary, he will stomp the general.

This is not going to be a close election. The main benefit here is that now democrats won’t waste money buying ads/ground staff in some of the nation’s most expensive markets and can instead focus elsewhere.

Schiff vs. Porter would have been a spend-a-rama for a race where most democrats would be happy with either candidate.

 

[GettyRoad]

Garvey should have ran for a suburban white House seat...but he'll lose.

This is a Safe D seat.

California, like NY is too blue.

Dems are lucky it's not 1980s and 1990s, Garvey would have won then.

 

[Pens1566]

Garvey should have ran for a suburban white House seat...but he'll lose.

This is a Safe D seat.

California, like NY is too blue.

Dems are lucky it's not 1980s and 1990s, Garvey would have won then.

Yeah, then he could have had noted conservative celebrity Steven Urkel campaign for him.

 

[nakedfrog]

Garvey should have ran for a suburban white House seat...but he'll lose.

This is a Safe D seat.

California, like NY is too blue.

Dems are lucky it's not 1980s and 1990s, Garvey would have won then.

If ifs and buts were candy and nuts, go fuck yourself.

 

[GettyRoad]

Yeah, then he could have had noted conservative celebrity Steven Urkel campaign for him.

Garvey would have won in the 90s.

Not now.

Should have ran for a House seat.

He's going to lose.

 

[Pens1566]

Garvey would have won in the 90s.

Not now.

Should have ran for a House seat.

He's going to lose.

Alas, we'll never know ...

 

[GettyRoad]

Alas, we'll never know ...

I don't know how CA got so blue, when there are so many OC Republicans there....

 

[Amused]

I don't know how CA got so blue, when there are so many OC Republicans there....

Probably because, with increasing intensity, the GQP has become the party of racism, bigotry, conspiracy theories, anti-vax, anti-science AND anti-intellectual. Not to mention fascism and dictator ideation.

When it was just the party of low taxes and individual freedoms, it appealed to many Californians. Now it's just batshit racist and fascist.

 

[UNCjigga]

I don't know how CA got so blue, when there are so many OC Republicans there....

Those OC Republicans made like Kevin McCarthy and Dana Rohrabacher and left...

 

[Moonbeam]

I don't know how CA got so blue, when there are so many OC Republicans there....

What crossed my mind was that Okies got too stupid to fuck.

 

[Leeea]

results:
for the six year term:
https://electionresults.sos.ca.gov/returns/us-senate
looks like Schiff straight up wins

for the one month term:
https://electionresults.sos.ca.gov/returns/us-senate-unexpired-term
looks like Garvey "wins" the primary, but this is meaningless


wow, the state ballot measure is to close to call:
https://electionresults.sos.ca.gov/returns/ballot-measures

 

[Zorba]

What crossed my mind was that Okies got too stupid to fuck.

Doesn't take much brains to fuck.

 

[eelw]

Instead of talking about Porter calling the primary “rigged” in the Biden/Gaza topic, let’s bring it back here. But I’m confused with the narrative that Schiff fixed it. Like no matter what Porter fans want to think, Schiff was going to be the one to catch since he has Pelosi and the establishment behind him. So it’s prudent for him to attack the R candidate than compare himself to either Porter or Lee. Like if Porter was in the same situation, she’d do exactly what Schiff did.

 

[manly]

Class act, TFG. (sorry if reposted, didn't read this thread)

Now, as the Republican front-runner in the race for a California U.S. Senate seat, Garvey has avoided detailed policy positions, instead relying on his name recognition and clean-cut image. His campaign website describes him as a “true role model,” he praised the party’s value of “personal responsibility” in a recent interview, and he called in an op-ed to “restore moral integrity in Congress.”

But the reality of Garvey’s life is more complex. The 75-year-old has struggled with debt, been repeatedly sued, faced a bitter divorce, and got two women pregnant before quickly marrying a third woman, his current wife, in a scandal that briefly made him a national punchline in 1989. He pledged in interviews at the time to take “moral and financial responsibility” for the children.

Speaking publicly for the first time, the two children involved in the paternity imbroglio, now adults, told The Times that their mothers repeatedly tried to arrange meetings and phone calls for the children with Garvey, but he declined to communicate.

Also speaking publicly for the first time, Garvey’s oldest child from his first marriage said he cut off almost all contact without explanation about 15 years ago in a move that she still finds painful.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1753084834246000854

 

[eelw]

Lol total role model. The party of morals and values. And of course totally support your children from birth on.

 

[Pens1566]

Class act, TFG. (sorry if reposted, didn't read this thread)

https://twitter.com/x/status/1753084834246000854

So, the GQP grew him in their lab?

 

[HomerJS]

Nice role model. Better go back to policy discussions.

Oh he can't do that because he hasn't shown to know anything and his policy positions are likely to be against MOST Californians

 

[nakedfrog]

Yes, he does sound rather like a shining personification of the modern GOP based on that blurb.