{"id":276475,"date":"2026-04-20T06:20:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T06:20:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/276475\/"},"modified":"2026-04-20T06:20:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T06:20:07","slug":"arambula-knocks-down-2028-fresno-mayor-bid-rumor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/276475\/","title":{"rendered":"Arambula knocks down 2028 Fresno Mayor bid rumor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since the week after the 2024 election,  speculative match-ups for the 2028 Fresno Mayoral race have taken off. <\/p>\n<p>For the subject of many of them \u2013 Asm. Joaquin Arambula (D-Fresno) \u2013 his intentions became clear on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Driving the news: Appearing at a candidate forum for the 3rd Fresno City Council district at Community Media Access Collaborative hosted by GV Wire, the five-term Democratic lawmaker was asked about the rumored bid to succeed Mayor Jerry Dyer.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOh, I\u2019ve answered this question a few times and I\u2019ll just be straight about it,\u201d Arambula said. \u201cI am not planning to run in 2028. I fundamentally believe that you have to do a good job in your job before you\u2019re seeking higher office. I do have young children. My daughters are 14, 13, and 10. I want to see them grow up a little bit and to be able to see them off to college before I\u2019m considering any other positions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Watch the forum:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Since the week after the 2024 election, speculative match-ups for the 2028 Fresno Mayoral race have taken off.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":276476,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[112,114,113],"class_list":["post-276475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276475","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=276475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276475\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/276476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}