“But for Essayli, who decided to run for a legislative seat because of his distaste for a “useless, dysfunctional Republican party,” fake opposition is a waste of time. “We have losers,” he says. “We have people who don’t want to win.” He compares many Republican elected officials in California to prisoners of war who are sucking up to their captors “so they can get an extra scoop of ice cream.”

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