{"id":247458,"date":"2026-04-01T23:01:20","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T23:01:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/247458\/"},"modified":"2026-04-01T23:01:20","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T23:01:20","slug":"california-gubernatorial-candidate-forum-held-at-fresno-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/247458\/","title":{"rendered":"California gubernatorial candidate forum held at Fresno State"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The race for Governor of California kicks into overdrive Wednesday with two candidate forums taking place in Fresno.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Western Growers Association and 30 farm groups hosted the first forum at Fresno State.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The candidates participating were Republicans Steve Hilton and Chad Bianco and four Democrats: Xavier Becerra, Katie Porter, Matt Mahan and Antonio Villaraigosa.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The moderators for the debate were former North Valley Assemblymember Kristin Olsen-Cate and Fresno County Supervisor Buddy Mendes.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The forum focused on &#8220;Affordability and Rural California.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The second gubernatorial forum will take place Wednesday night at Fresno City College.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The debate will focus on issues ranging from job creation, immigration and agriculture.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The race for Governor of California kicks into overdrive Wednesday with two candidate forums taking place in Fresno.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":247459,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[3702,28687,112,1907,622,114,113,742,70134,146,4421,17382,110503,3707],"class_list":{"0":"post-247458","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fresno","8":"tag-antonio-villaraigosa","9":"tag-chad-bianco","10":"tag-fresno","11":"tag-fresno-city-college","12":"tag-fresno-county","13":"tag-fresno-headlines","14":"tag-fresno-news","15":"tag-fresno-state","16":"tag-governor-of-california","17":"tag-katie-porter","18":"tag-matt-mahan","19":"tag-steve-hilton","20":"tag-western-growers-association","21":"tag-xavier-becerra"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247458","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=247458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247458\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/247459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}