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California's primary system advances the top two vote-getters to the general election regardless of party. With a large number of Democrat candidates (around a dozen or more) potentially splitting the Democrat vote, and a just two prominent Republicans (Steve Hilton and Chad Bianco) polling strongly, there is concern (and panic) that Republicans could finish in the top two-- leaving no Democrat on the November ballot for governor.
Newsom was asked about this during a recent press conference and he responded that there's an emergency "break the glass" contingency plan that involves the use of state agencies to prevent Democrats from being locked out of the race.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/AAOdt2uRmmY
Democrats originally supported this top-two primary system (passed in 2010) precisely to marginalize and shut out Republicans in this deep blue state. Now that they're the ones facing a shut out, suddenly democracy no longer matters and vague and shadowy state agencies will step in and remove the people from deciding things.
It's okay to shut out Republicans from an election, but not Democrats. No, Democrats are special, you see, so there are special rules to protect them.
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