Book your ticket to happiness with Sun Express Airlines. Hello everyone and welcome to the focus group podcast. I'm Sarah

Longwell publisher of the Bull Work and the race we're covering this week is a

stimulus program for Democratic

consultants, the California Senate race. I say this because this is a race between

two candidates who have impeccable resistance credentials, and that means they're currently

printing money from small dollar donors around the country. And California

has a weird primary system where the top two candidates in the primary, regardless of party, will

advance to the general election. The race has two main players. You've got

Democratic Congressman Adam Schiff, who has been tough on Trump from day one,

from the Russia investigation to the first impeachment

inquiry to the January 6th committee.

Then you have Democratic Congresswoman Katie Porter, whose whiteboard is feared by CEOs everywhere.

One of them is going to be a US senator

and may get a look for president in 2028,

but rest assured, California also has a governor

who's itching to run for president, so you're going to hear a lot about these

characters in the years ahead. Now, cards on the table. I'm not especially enamored with

either Schiff or Porter or Gavin Newsom for that matter.

But to break down these characters and how California politics will reverberate

around the country, I am turning to one of my favorite California Libs,

John Favreau, co-host of Crooked Media's Pod Save America, and host of offline with

John Favreau and fellow focus group officiano. John, thanks so much for being here.

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