{"id":279770,"date":"2026-04-22T05:18:06","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T05:18:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/279770\/"},"modified":"2026-04-22T05:18:06","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T05:18:06","slug":"leading-candidates-to-square-off-in-tv-debate-at-critical-point-in-california-governors-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/279770\/","title":{"rendered":"Leading candidates to square off in TV debate at critical point in California governor&#8217;s race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"2J2BZ65NE5BQTFGF6I6MJIPFME\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">LOS ANGELES \u2014 Six leading candidates for California governor will meet in a televised debate Wednesday \u2014 all of them eager for a breakout moment in a chaotic race with no clear leader.<\/p>\n<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"A7BLQK5YXZDJXPKHJIXU2QFVQU\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">With mail ballots scheduled to go to voters early next month in advance of the June 2 primary election, candidates are running short on time to break into contention. Under California election rules, only the top two vote-getters advance to the November election, regardless of party. Democrats have been fretting for months that a crowded field could result in two Republicans making it to November, a result that would be a historic calamity for Democrats in a famously left-leaning state.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LOS ANGELES \u2014 Six leading candidates for California governor will meet in a televised debate Wednesday \u2014 all&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":279771,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[110083,7,9,8,110084,110081,110082,989,18,33908,106269,13,17,110080],"class_list":{"0":"post-279770","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-california","8":"tag-2026-election-news","9":"tag-california","10":"tag-california-headlines","11":"tag-california-news","12":"tag-election-latest-news","13":"tag-election-news","14":"tag-election-news-2026","15":"tag-elections","16":"tag-general-news","17":"tag-government-regulations","18":"tag-political-debates","19":"tag-politics","20":"tag-u-s-news","21":"tag-us-election-2026-governor-california"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279770","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=279770"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279770\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/279771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=279770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=279770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=279770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}