It is a crowded field with 10 top contenders, including eight Democrats and two Republicans.<\/p>\n
Here’s a quick primer on who is running, in alphabetical order:<\/p>\n
Xavier Becerra (D): former Secretary of Health and Human Services under the Biden Administration<\/p>\n
Chad Bianco (R): Riverside County Sheriff<\/p>\n
Steve Hilton (R): Fox News contributor <\/p>\n
Matt Mahan (D): Mayor of San Jose<\/p>\n
Katie Porter (D): Former Congressmember<\/p>\n
Tom Steyer (D): Billionaire environmentalist <\/p>\n
Eric Swalwell (D): Congressmember<\/p>\n
Tony Thurmond (D): State Superintendent <\/p>\n
Antonio Villaraigosa (D): Former Mayor of LA<\/p>\n
Betty Yee (D): Former state Controller <\/p>\n
In California’s “jungle primary,” the top two vote-getting candidates advance to the November general election, regardless of party affiliation. <\/p>\n
While all these candidates have filed to run and will see their names on the ballot, it’s possible for this crowded field to thin out before the election. We will update this list as appropriate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It is a crowded field with 10 top contenders, including eight Democrats and two Republicans. Here’s a quick…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":217128,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7,9,8,13],"class_list":["post-217127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217127\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/217128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}