Hello listeners welcome to Politico's nerdcast I'm Scott Bland your host.

This week on the nerd cast we are looking ahead to June 5th. Eight states have primaries on Tuesday, including California, where the unusual primary system has Democrats worried about some of their top

House target districts getting wiped off the map five months before the general election.

We'll explain more in a moment.

Plus what does the White House have up its sleeve for the rest of the midterm year?

We're breaking down the political plans emerging from the Trump administration, starting

with the President's rally in Tennessee earlier this week.

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I want to welcome into the studio campaign pros house expert Elena Schneider back from the road.

Welcome, Elena.

Thanks so much for having me.

All right, let's jump into our first data point, 1.4 million. That's how many people have already voted in the primaries in California, according

to early voting data from Political Data, Inc. One of eight states, California is up on June 5th,

a little bit of a midterm super Tuesday.

We've got Alabama, Iowa, Mississippi, Montana, New Jersey, New Mexico, South Dakota, and California,

which is the main event.

And because the state has a top two primary system

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