CA-2018: Villaraigosa Hops In

[rpryor03]

http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-pol-ca-governor-villaraigosa-20161110-story.html

Thoughts?

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This will be interesting.

[Maxwell]

Joke candidate. Even Newsom is better than this clown.

[Interlocutor is just not there yet]

Eh. He doesn't have much support in Southern California, outside of LA. I'm not sure if LA is in love with him anymore either

[AndyHogan14]

Better than Newsom...I hope the Democrats can find a better candidate. Can we repeal term limits and just keep Jerry Brown around for four more years!? Haha.

[Kingpoleon]

Chiang v. Villaraigosa v. Newsom sounds like a good recipe for Newsom to win.

[Vega]

I honestly can't see him doing great. He really wasn't that popular as Mayor and seems to be a bit of a light weight. It might be a Newsom v. Chiang deal.

[JMT]

Interesting. I kinda thought Villaraigosa would run for Feinstein's senate seat in she retired. Maybe this implies that she's sticking around for another term.

[Figueira]

Chiang v. Villaraigosa v. Newsom sounds like a good recipe for Newsom to win.

Given that it's a jungle primary, it depends a lot on what Republicans run, and whether they coalesce around one candidate.

[Mr. Smith]

Not a chance in hell he will be Governor, Newsom won't allow it. It is important to know a lot of high profile Democrats will run in the jungle primary. It'll be a D vs R election for sure.

Keep dreamin', the Bay Area Mafia won't allow that.

Pity. Newsom doesn't deserve such a coronation like the one Harris got.

[tallguy23]

I hope he loses. He was a pretty lame mayor of LA.