What race? You don’t even have the ability to race because you’re sabotaging yourself at every opportunity like you’re Dick Dastardly in Wacky Races. 
The hearing before the committee chaired by Cruz, Commerce, Science, and Transportation, included the usual mishmash of parochial politics, lobbying for traditional space, back slapping, and fawning—at one point, Gold, a Star Trek fan, went so far as to assert that Cruz is the “Captain Kirk” of the US Senate.
Time and time again this has shown to be false. We must always wait another day for them to do anything the left wants. A day that never comes.
We have literally never had a real election for any office larger than a schoolboard or dog catcher position. You cannot have “free and fair” elections while the dictators of the workplace control what gets press, air time, and algorithmic propagation.