Yes, I could have made a lot of money. I predicted way back before the whole process started that, despite being for Bernie Sanders for President of the United States, in the end Joe Biden and Kamala Harris would be the ticket. I thought Harris would be asked not only because she wanted the Presidency, but because she's in California, a populous state that has a lot of electoral votes. Everyone wants California.
We Californians will probably still be part of the United States so long as we feel we have representation. Though it's improbably I sometimes wonder if we are so different that we might have to form our own country. If only we were not so dependent on Federal funds.