◼ Field Poll: GOP's hope in California governor's race leaning far to the right - San Jose Mercury News
Thirty-four percent of likely Republican voters would pick Donnelly, R-Hesperia, while only 3 percent would vote for Kashkari.
...So far, (Kashkari) has raised considerably more money than other Republican candidates, and he has been actively campaigning up and down the state. He has about $903,000 in the bank, while Blount and Donnelly have about $8,000 and $10,000, respectively.
Brown, meanwhile, has amassed a war chest of close to $20 million.
Donnelly has been running a low-budget campaign since he announced his candidacy two years ago. And he's been "a genius" at reaching voters through social media and on websites like YouTube, where he has posted quirky campaign videos that have gone viral, said Allan Hoffenblum, publisher of the California Target Book, which handicaps legislative and congressional races.
Having a double-digit lead on his closest Republican challenger is "pretty encouraging," said Donnelly, who takes pride in the fact that his campaign "hasn't spent a cent on persuasion."
"There's a movement in California to unite under the banner of liberty, freedom, civil rights and privacy, and I'm leading it," Donnelly said. "I'm the underdog, but I like to call myself the underdog frontrunner."
