“It’s almost like he’s completely forgotten what it’s like to be in a smaller race.” Newsom seems to be going all in with this gambit. Newsom campaign spokesman Nathan Click claimed that the main goal was to “draw a contrast” between the front-runners, and insisted that the campaign did not “micro-target” Republicans. Karen Bernal, chairwoman of the California Democratic Party’s progressive caucus, and Cullen Tiernan ― both progressive activists supporting Eastin for governor ― voiced these concerns. “It compounds the top-two problem,” said a prominent California Democratic activist who declined to be named for fear of undermining the likely Democratic front-runner. Click, the Newsom campaign spokesman, noted that the nonpartisan primary had already cost over $50 million.

Source: Huffington Post June 02, 2018 19:52 UTC