“If you do not have a viable path to make it to the General Election, do not file to place your name on the ballot for the Primary Election,” Hicks wrote. But candidates who have been mired in single-digits for months, including State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tony Thurmond and former state Controller Betty Yee, showed no immediate signs of heading toward the exits. At the Alameda County Registrar of Voters office in Oakland, Yee filed the paperwork to officially place her name on the ballot. “When I was signing the declaration of candidacy, my hands were shaking, because I just thought about my mother, who is 102, and how within a generation she’s able to see her daughter do this,” Yee told KQED. “Well, the establishment might not be, but our campaign is, and that’s why we’re in this race to win it.”

Source: The Guardian March 04, 2026 18:44 UTC