{"id":246368,"date":"2026-04-01T07:05:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T07:05:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/246368\/"},"modified":"2026-04-01T07:05:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T07:05:08","slug":"a-messy-california-governors-race-raises-democratic-fears-of-potential-loss-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/246368\/","title":{"rendered":"A messy California governor&#8217;s race raises Democratic fears of potential loss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. Eric Swalwell, D-Calif., departs following votes at the Capitol, Thursday, March 5, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo\/Allison Robbert)FILE &#8211; California gubernatorial candidate Antonio Villaraigosa speaks at the 2026 California Democratic Party State Convention in San Francisco, Feb. 21, 2026. (AP Photo\/Jeff Chiu, File)FILE &#8211; Steve Hilton speaks during the California gubernatorial candidate debate, Feb. 3, 2026, in San Francisco. (AP Photo\/Laure Andrillon, File)<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 ldQoSP\">Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 eUNKoh\">Rep. Eric Swalwell, D-Calif., departs following votes at the Capitol, Thursday, March 5, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo\/Allison Robbert)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rep. Eric Swalwell, D-Calif., departs following votes at the Capitol, Thursday, March 5, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo\/Allison&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":246369,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7,9,8,28687,36305,536,989,24115,457,13867,13934,146,13,88115,17382,25299,17],"class_list":["post-246368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news","tag-chad-bianco","tag-dan-newman","tag-donald-trump","tag-elections","tag-eric-swalwell","tag-gavin-newsom","tag-gray-davis","tag-jerry-brown","tag-katie-porter","tag-politics","tag-rusty-hicks","tag-steve-hilton","tag-tom-steyer","tag-u-s-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246368","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=246368"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246368\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/246369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}