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George Skelton: Primary election no-shows in California are a warning to Biden

Josiah Burnley, 20, of Los Angeles votes for the first time in the presidential primary election at the Los Angeles County Registrar Recorder in Norwalk on March 4, 2024.

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — They've almost finished counting votes from the California primary and the news is not good for President Joe Biden.

Sure, he "won." He was virtually unopposed and easily captured California's largest-in-the-nation bloc of delegates to the Democratic National Convention. His renomination to a second term has never been in doubt — if he ran.

But the unsettling news for Biden is that hundreds of thousands of Democratic and independent voters who cast ballots in the March 5 primary skipped over the presidential contest, ignoring it.

Look, presidential voting comes at the

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