One day you’re running for the state Supreme Court. The next day you’re running for the Court of Appeals. Can you shift hundreds of thousands of dollars raised for the first race into the war chest of the second?

That is a question facing Presiding Judge Sara Doyle of the appeals court, who has spent much of the year building a campaign for a high court seat being vacated by Justice Robert Benham. But the May 2020 election disappeared last week when Benham decided to resign next March rather than retire when his term ended in December 2020.