{"id":266002,"date":"2026-04-13T19:21:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T19:21:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/266002\/"},"modified":"2026-04-13T19:21:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T19:21:09","slug":"newsnation-to-simulcast-nexstars-california-gubernatorial-debate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/266002\/","title":{"rendered":"NewsNation To Simulcast Nexstar&#8217;s California Gubernatorial Debate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/newsnation\/\" id=\"auto-tag_newsnation\" data-tag=\"newsnation\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NewsNation<\/a> will simulcast a <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/california-gubernatorial-debate\/\" id=\"auto-tag_california-gubernatorial-debate\" data-tag=\"california-gubernatorial-debate\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">California gubernatorial debate<\/a> on April 22, a race scrambled over the weekend by the exit of Democrat Eric Swalwell amid sexual misconduct allegations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe debate, which will start at 10 p.m. ET, is produced by the broadcasting division of NewsNation\u2019s parent, <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/nexstar\/\" id=\"auto-tag_nexstar\" data-tag=\"nexstar\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nexstar<\/a>, and will be carried by its local stations in the state. The Hill also will live stream the event, from KRON-TV Channel 4 studios in San Francisco. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tCandidates participating had to have met a 5% polling threshold in Nexstar\u2019s March statewide poll. Those who qualified include Republicans Steve Hilton and Chad Bianco and Democrats Katie Porter and Tom Steyer. All have accepted the invite to participate.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe debate will be moderated by Nikki Laurenzo, news anchor at KTXL-TV Fox- 40 in Sacramento and host of\u00a0Inside California Politics,\u00a0and Frank Buckley, morning news anchor at KTLA-TV in Los Angeles.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tOn NewsNation, Chris Cuomo will host a special edition of Cuomo at 8 p.m. ET, followed by Leland Vittert with On Balance from San Francisco at 9 p.m. ET. Chris Stirewalt, politics editor of NewsNation and The Hill, will anchor The Hill\u2019s pre- and post- debate coverage and contribute to NewsNation\u2019s coverage. Katie Pavlich will host a special edition of Katie Pavlich Tonight at 11 p.m. ET, following the debate. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe debate also will air on KTLA-TV Channel 5 in Los Angeles, KSWB\/KUSI-TV in San Diego, KTXL-TV in Sacramento, KGET-TV in Bakersfield and KSEE-TV in Fresno. NewsNation will air an encore on April 23 at 2 a.m. ET.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tCNN will host a California gubernatorial debate on May 5, with Elex Michaelson and Kaitlan Collins as moderators.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NewsNation will simulcast a California gubernatorial debate on April 22, a race scrambled over the weekend by the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":266003,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7,116328,9,8,17353,7564,88347],"class_list":{"0":"post-266002","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-california","8":"tag-california","9":"tag-california-gubernatorial-debate","10":"tag-california-headlines","11":"tag-california-news","12":"tag-electionline","13":"tag-newsnation","14":"tag-nexstar"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266002","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=266002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266002\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/266003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=266002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=266002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=266002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}