{"id":246258,"date":"2026-04-01T05:26:06","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T05:26:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/246258\/"},"modified":"2026-04-01T05:26:06","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T05:26:06","slug":"a-messy-california-governors-race-raises-democratic-fears-of-potential-loss-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/246258\/","title":{"rendered":"A messy California governor&#8217;s race raises Democratic fears of potential loss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"GUEXPEDLVNDWJMX3ANXWVOF35U\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">LOS ANGELES \u2014 Democrats have run California for years, but in a nationally critical election the <a href=\"https:\/\/cadem.org\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">party<\/a> is being confronted by the limits of its own power: the race for governor is out of control.<\/p>\n<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"35UQFW7EEZG37PEQG47CADWMSE\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">Barely a month before the start of mail-in voting, Democratic leaders are openly <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/california-governor-democrats-gavin-newsom-republicans-porter-7138e44bd9f4d474910e111aea13d8c4\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">dreading<\/a> the possible loss of a statewide election for the first time in two decades. As candidates jockey in a crowded field, the contest has degenerated into finger-pointing over debate <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/california-governor-debate-usc-candidates-bias-91539c81a8ecaf8612c0eacd04dc1312\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">eligibility<\/a> , identity politics and 2025 ballot <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/sheriff-chad-bianco-seized-ballot-riverside-legal-challenge-b56ba10726618ceaf4db803b7df10555\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">counting<\/a> , issues distant from voters <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/projects\/polling-tracker\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">struggling<\/a> with the soaring cost of gas and groceries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LOS ANGELES \u2014 Democrats have run California for years, but in a nationally critical election the party is&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":246259,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[110083,7,9,8,2575,110084,110081,110082,989,18,69320,106269,13,17,110080],"class_list":["post-246258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-2026-election-news","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news","tag-democracy","tag-election-latest-news","tag-election-news","tag-election-news-2026","tag-elections","tag-general-news","tag-oil-and-gas-industry","tag-political-debates","tag-politics","tag-u-s-news","tag-us-election-2026-governor-california"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246258","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=246258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246258\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/246259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}