{"id":289982,"date":"2026-04-28T17:31:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T17:31:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/289982\/"},"modified":"2026-04-28T17:31:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T17:31:07","slug":"los-angeles-times-becerras-surge-in-california-governor-race-draws-fresh-scrutiny-to-candidacy-long-government-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/289982\/","title":{"rendered":"Los Angeles Times | Becerra&#8217;s Surge in California Governor Race Draws Fresh Scrutiny to Candidacy, Long Government Record"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/ca-on-map.jpg\" class=\"singular-image entry-image\" alt=\"Photo map of Los Angeles California. Shallow depth of field, focus on the Los Angeles city of the map and the area nears it.\" decoding=\"async\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>Fernando Guerra, director of LMU\u2019s Center for the Study of Los Angeles, commented on the history of Xavier Beccera\u2019s political career in California. \u201cHe certainly has been and is part of the incorporation of Latinos into California history and California politics, and it really begins in the early \u201990s\u2026His rise and political career is really a reflection of the rise and political incorporation of Latinos.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/california\/story\/2026-04-27\/becerras-surge-california-governor-race-draws-attention-to-candidacy-long-government-record\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Los Angeles Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fernando Guerra, director of LMU\u2019s Center for the Study of Los Angeles, commented on the history of Xavier&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":289983,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[7,123909,123910,989,32338,48,52,51,47,50,49,13],"class_list":{"0":"post-289982","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"tag-california","9":"tag-center-for-the-study-of-los-angeles","10":"tag-centers-and-institutes","11":"tag-elections","12":"tag-faculty","13":"tag-la","14":"tag-la-headlines","15":"tag-la-news","16":"tag-los-angeles","17":"tag-los-angeles-headlines","18":"tag-los-angeles-news","19":"tag-politics"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289982","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=289982"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289982\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/289983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=289982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=289982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=289982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}