Don't ever for one seconds call things like this a useless run, that is defeatist talk. If you don't fight then you've already lost. Doesn't matter if he wins, doesn't matter if he even doesn't get that many votes, how many clowns in CA just default to Democrat because it's all they've known. Now is the time to make moves. Show these people that there is an infinitely better solution and bit by bit more will realise.