SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Democratic presidential candidates are confronting the Democratic National Committee's tough standards to get on the debate stage, trying to distinguish themselves from their many rivals and plotting how to win the critical four early voting states. That leaves them barely enough
1 / 6Soli Alpert poses for photos during the 2019 California Democratic Party State Organizing Convention in San Francisco, Sunday, June 2, 2019. time to think about what would come next.
"A lot of these campaigns are struggling with all the other hoops and Rubik's cubes the DNC is throwing their way and having a good showing in the early states," said Michael Trujillo, a Los Angeles-based strategist."I think California is going to be pretty wide open." "They've both been at the presidential level. Yes, she's a U.S. senator who's run statewide multiple times here, but she's still unknown to a portion of the electorate that is less focused on day-to-day politics," Brokaw said.
Still, individual candidate visits are like tiny ripples in the vast sea of a state that stretches as far as the distance between Maine and North Carolina. There are two more factors confounding campaigns in California. Early voting has become popular in the state, and ballots are scheduled to go out on the day of next year's Iowa caucuses. That means candidates looking to take California can't simply hope to do well in the first four states — they'll have to start spending in the state's notoriously pricey media markets even earlier.
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