{"id":299527,"date":"2026-05-04T19:04:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T19:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/299527\/"},"modified":"2026-05-04T19:04:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T19:04:09","slug":"2026-primary-election-california-attorney-general-race-explainer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/299527\/","title":{"rendered":"2026 Primary Election: California Attorney General race explainer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>        Party: Republican<\/p>\n<p>Professional background: Deputy United States Attorney<\/p>\n<p>Gates, a former trial attorney, served as Huntington Beach city attorney for a decade. In that role, he challenged what he viewed as lenient criminal justice policy emanating from the state capital. He also fought elements of the new housing laws that would have compelled Huntington Beach to build more affordable housing. In 2025, Gates was appointed a deputy assistant attorney general in the U.S. Department of Justice\u2019s Civil Rights Division, a job he left in November when he returned to the Huntington Beach city attorney\u2019s office.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Party: Republican Professional background: Deputy United States Attorney Gates, a former trial attorney, served as Huntington Beach city&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":299528,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[124030,3149,7,9,8,2575,13],"class_list":["post-299527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-2026-primary-election","tag-attorney-general","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news","tag-democracy","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299527","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=299527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299527\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/299528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=299527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=299527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=299527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}