The tragicomedy of Irish playwright Samuel Beckett “Waiting for Godot” focuses on two men, Vladimir and Estragon, who expect, in vain, that the arrival of a mysterious man named Godot means their miserable lives.
It is considered a perfect example of the fascination of the World War of Europe with what is called “Theater of the absurd”. That is why they occur to me when the dynamics of the increasing picture of Democratic candidates for governor in 2026 are considered.
As their numbers expand, they are waiting for former vice president Kamala Harris to tell the world if he will try to keep his political career looking for the Government.
Harris is apparently arranged, to the Godot, to keep them waiting. Politico has reported that a month, in a match prior to the neighborhoods, he told the supporters that he won to declare his intentions until the end of summer.
Uncertainty about their intentions affects what other applicants can do in the interim, such as raising campaign money. The great democratic spending, such as unions, the entertainment industry and the Silicon Valley, are also waiting, rewarding how to comfort each other with other candidates until Harris decides.
It is also evident that minor candidates, those little known and lacked deep pocket support, such as former state leader Toni Atkins, the superintendent of the state schools Tony Thurmond and former state controller Betty Yee, turns.
But what about those who, in the absence of Harris, would be credible aspiring, such as LT. Governor Eleni Kounalakis, the former mayor of Los Angeles, Antonio Villarigosa, the member of the Katie Porter Congress and, more recently, former Attorney General Xavier Becerra.
Kounalakis and Porter have abandoned suggestions that they would deficiency Harris, but Villarigosa has indicated that he would still run and Becerra, announcing his candidacy this week, he declared that he is in him to stay.
The upper primary system of the state plays a significant role in the way in which the Angelly field is formed. Althegh’s surveys indicate that Harris would be the favorite in the June primaries, another Democrat could expect to finish second and thus qualify for a second round in November in which Republican and independent voters could be decisive.
However, a democratic field full of people who would fragment the primary Democratic voters would also be the probability that a Republican, such as the Sheriff of Riverside Chad Bianco, would end in second place.
That situation, as the adjustment elections have demonstrated, gives the Democratic candidate a great advantage to win the Government, given the registration of a disheveled democratic voters of the State.
We saw that stage last year when the member of the Adam Schiff Congress indirectly helps the Republican Steve Garvey to finish second in the main duel for a seat in the United States Senate, freezing Katie Porter. It could happen again next year, if she remains in the governor’s career and Harris’s campaign emulates Schiff’s tactics to help Bianco or some other Republican to finish second.
A runoff between Harris and another Democrat could be a proof of his campaign capacity as a result of stumbling badly in his 2019 offer by the Presidency and again last year after being beaten by Democratic leaders to face Donald Trump later. Forced. Forced. Forced. Forced.
California voters have a leg in a mood in recent times, concerned about constantly increasing life costs, especially for housing, crisis and crimes of homeless people seemingly intractable in the state. The approval of proposal 36 of last year, a measure to take energetic measures against criminals, despite the opposition of Governor Gavin Newsom and other democratic leaders, is an indication of the agrio mood of the voters.
A Democratic candidate who exploits that fear and appeals to Republican and independent voters could set up a serious campaign against Harris, if he decides to execute.
Then Walters is a Calmatters columnist.
