Lexi Reese, a former Google executive, announced on Thursday that she will run for the U.S. Senate in California in 2024.
Reese joins three other Democrats in a growing field of candidates. The former Facebook and Google employee is virtually unknown in the race to succeed Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein in the nation’s most populous state, which has 22 million registered voters.
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She is expecting to separate herself as a pariah in her previously campaigned for office — “a new candidate with a fresh message,” her counsels say.
That would contrast with well-known politicians currently running for office: Representatives from the Democratic Party in the United States Katie Watchman, Adam Schiff, and Barbara Lee.
In the online video that Reese uses to kick off her campaign, she says, “The California dream is dying.” Millions of families struggle to make ends meet despite their hard work. It is time to collaborate and create a better future.
Reese recorded an explanation of nomination with government political decision controllers on June 15, assigned a board to raise reserves, and showed she expected to spend individual subsidies on the mission.
In the vast state, which contains some of the most expensive media markets in the nation, a successful statewide campaign typically requires tens of millions of dollars. The amount Reese means to spend from her assets on battling is not satisfactory.
Schiff, for instance, had $25 million in his mission account toward the finish of Spring and will probably have millions more after second-quarter raising support closes toward the finish of June.
The race in the heavily Democratic state is already developing into a showcase for an ambitious younger generation of the party’s left wing, with the centrist Feinstein approaching the end of her career.
The seat is supposed to remain in Just hands — a conservative hasn’t come out on top in a Senate race in the state starting around 1988.
Reese also enters the race without an established support base because he is a first-time candidate in a field already splintered by Democratic candidates.
Most of Reese’s website is devoted to introducing herself to voters and requesting that they send her a message online about the advantages and disadvantages of living in the state.
Veteran Democratic consultant Bill Carrick warned that a divided Democratic vote could have an unintended advantage for Republicans, in addition to the difficulties a first-time candidate faces.
Under the top-two election system in California, which pits the top two primary vote-getters against each other in the November general election, only Democrats prevailed in the state’s two most recent Senate contests.
“If you have four Democrats in the race who are all running significant campaigns, you are going to open the back door for a Republican to be in the (November) runoff,” Carrick said.
“If you divide the Democratic vote by four and somebody is able to become the dominant Republican, you increase the chances you have a Democratic-Republican runoff” in November, Carrick said.
Previous baseball MVP and Conservative Steve Garvey, who played for the Los Angeles Dodgers and San Diego Padres, are considering getting into the race.
He would join GOP lawyer Eric Early — a fruitless contender for state principal legal officer in 2022 and 2018 and for Congress in 2020.
California Republicans have blamed the Democratic-dominated state government for notoriously high taxes, a homeless crisis, alarming urban crime rates, and prohibitively high housing prices for many working-class families in recent elections.
According to her advisors, there was a vacancy: With the March primary election still months away, many voters are undecided, and even the leading Democrats are not widely known throughout the state.
At Google, she was VP for worldwide automatic stages, among different jobs. The graduate of Harvard Business School has also held positions with American Express.
In her video, Reese reviewed difficulties from quite a while ago — her dad lost stable employment, her folks separated, her kin battled with dependence, and a sibling kicked the bucket attempting to recuperate.
She asserted, “I understand what financial uncertainty can do to a family.”
