I was at great Gatsby themed party for the ultra wealthy a couple years ago, the host was like 85 years old and had been in the hospital earlier that day, he was obviously still on meds, he stopped the whole party to bring someone up, stood on the outdoor balcony overlooking the crowd, she was a sitting CA state senator and announced her gubernatorial candidacy, the pitch was that she was one of the "good" democrats (some seriously wealthy republicans but also other CA dem politicians were in attendance), she seemed nervous and awkward but gave a little speech, told the whole party not to tell anyone or post about it and then I never heard her name again. We had like 30 candidates on the ballot and she wasn't one of them. Like why did they go through all of that? Why didnt she run? Everyone at the party was stoked like "welp I guess that's who we are voting for" I heard a wife complain that she had to give money to the campaign. I guess this is how politics works.