What Is Larry Elder Running For?
Larry Elder becoming governor of California would be a little like Bernie Sanders winning a Senate seat in Kansas, or Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez representing suburban Mississippi in the House, or Mike Pence ending his career as the mayor of Portland, Oregon. Yet in less than a week’s time, there’s some chance, albeit a diminishing one, that it might happen.
Elder, a conservative talk-radio host from Los Angeles, is dominating polling among the candidates vying to replace Gavin Newsom in the state’s September 14 gubernatorial recall election, just the fourth in American history. The race, at this point, seems to be . Still, of poll respondents support the recall, meaning that just enough enthusiasm on the right and just enough apathy on the left could put a Trumpish Republican
