One primary that is really
big this year in our world,
the Democratic primary
for governor,
if you had to name that one.
Anybody got any takers
here?
The why not primary?
I think everyone
and their mother
is running for governor
and you have to go.
We've got at least
seven candidates
running for governor.
Sean, let's flip
this on its head for you,
because part of
the idea behind
having primaries in the past
or not having them
was fear
of wasting resources.
But the other end of it was
you can battle test,
and whoever comes through
a primary
is a better candidate
for the general election.
So what's your take on a wide
open primary like this?
How can it help Democrats
if they're are battling
this many people there?
I think that, you know,
there are plenty of examples
in the recent past,
particularly
among Republicans, where you
you come out of a battle
tested primary
and you are wounded.
And it did not help them
very much
in the general election,
I think, in 2018.
Tony Evers came out
of a battle tested primary
and was a little bit
out of money.
So there is a risk to it,
but it does also,
get attention,
I guess, is the thing
that it does for sure.
I think another piece
of this, too,
is that it's very easy
to kind of present a unified
front as a party
when you're in the minority,
because it doesn't
really matter, right?
You don't have power.
And so we might know
that kind of
behind the scenes,
the further left Democrats
and the more
centrist Democrats
don't get along or disagree,
but then they'll come forward
and kind of vote
in alignment.
And so now what we're seeing,
because there's a little bit
more of a sense
that perhaps
they could
actually win things
and gain power.
There's also,
I think, a little
bit of a fight
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