Yes I don't know why they didn't just have the Lt Gov there as a backup. She's fairly likeable as a backup, because she's generally uncontroversial as just some establishment Dem doing her job. It's so stupid.

Anyway...I'm really eh on picking the "YouTube landlord influencer" as the Dem backup. I checked CalMatters and there was one guy endorsing...Gray Davis as the backup? The only other guy to get recalled?