Column: Trump poses a riddle for Republican candidates in California. Here's how their solutions differ

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'Should a candidate hug Trump too tightly, the theory goes, those voters will stay home — or, worse, vote Democratic once again,' writes columnist markzbarabak.

and put Joe Biden in the White House in 2020. Should a candidate hug Trump too tightly, the theory goes,So what’s a deeply principled, or nakedly ambitious, Republican to do?

It’s a quandary that is particularly acute in California, where Trump lost to Biden by 30 percentage points and no Republican has won statewide office in well over a decade.Caitlyn Jenner, whose gubernatorial candidacy seems mostly about mainlining publicity, her drug of choice, and profiting off the attempted recall of Gov. Gavin Newsom by treating the campaign as one big merchandising opportunity. She has been coached by members of Team Trump and, to the extent the former reality TV star takes a position on issues, sounds as though she’s reading from the Trump Manifesto.

On the other end of the spectrum is Sacramento County Dist. Atty. Anne Marie Schubert, who is running for state attorney general. She quit the GOP in 2018 and changed her registration to “no party preference” — not due to Trump, Schubert said, but because All well and good, though the move followed a contentious primary in which Schubert’s Democratic foes pilloried the prosecutor for her alleged ties to Trump. That will be harder to do now that she’s exited the Republican Party.

 

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