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This morning I spoke to an old friend, a prominent and well-off progressive attorney who lives in a red-leaning swing district with a low-profile, relatively inoffensive-- albeit very right-wing-- Republican congressman. He ran against the congressman once but, largely due to typical duplicity and incompetence from Steve Israel and the DCCC, he ended the cycle by saying he would never run again.

Tuesday night Elizabeth Warren was at the Re/code convention in DC. The guy above asked her the right question. I'm as happy with Bernie Sanders running for president as I would have been with Warren running. Either would make an infinitely more useful president than anything Establishment politics is about to puke up at us.

Crackpot Tim Donnelly could signal the end of California's Republican PartyNo one serious thinks there's a Republican who can defeat California Governor Jerry Brown in November. He turned Schwarzenegger's deficits into surpluses and, other than zombie-partisan rightists, voters love him. In 2010, despite Meg Whitman's jaw-dropping $160 million spend, Brown beat her by over a million votes and she limped ito the finish line with a mere 40.9%.