On July 19, former California Republican Assemblymember David Hadley said he won’t run for Governor in 2018. He had said he would run just two weeks ago. He said on July 19 that if he runs, that makes it more likely that no Republican would qualify for the November ballot, because there are already two other relatively strong Republicans running for Governor and having three major Republicans in the primary threatens to have a two-Democrat general election. See this story.