{"id":289786,"date":"2026-04-28T14:39:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T14:39:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/289786\/"},"modified":"2026-04-28T14:39:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T14:39:08","slug":"who-is-ahead-in-californias-14th-congressional-district","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/289786\/","title":{"rendered":"Who Is Ahead in California&#8217;s 14th Congressional District?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"svelte-17kb3tr\">Eric Swalwell, the incumbent Democrat in this district, did not seek reelection, as he was originally planning to run for governor. The open seat set off a crowded primary in a district in which Swalwell received <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2024\/11\/05\/us\/elections\/results-california-us-house-14.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">almost 70 percent<\/a> of the vote in 2024. The leading contenders for the seat are Aisha Wahab, a state senator endorsed by the California Democratic Party, and Melissa Hernandez, a former mayor of Dublin who is president of the BART Board of Directors. They will face off against Wendy Huang, a Republican, among other challengers. <\/p>\n<p class=\"svelte-17kb3tr\">As a result of Swalwell\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/04\/13\/us\/eric-swalwell-resignation-sex-abuse-accusations.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">resignation<\/a> in early April following numerous allegations of sexual assault and misconduct, voters in the 14th district will also vote in a special primary on June 16 to fill this seat until January (two weeks after the regular primary). A candidate can win the seat outright in the special primary by receiving more than 50 percent of the vote. If not, the race would advance to a special general election in August. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Eric Swalwell, the incumbent Democrat in this district, did not seek reelection, as he was originally planning to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":136897,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7,9,8,989,11272,86842,69598],"class_list":["post-289786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news","tag-elections","tag-house-of-representatives","tag-midterm-elections-2026","tag-polls-and-public-opinion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289786","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=289786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289786\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/136897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=289786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=289786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=289786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}