{"id":335637,"date":"2026-05-28T07:10:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T07:10:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/335637\/"},"modified":"2026-05-28T07:10:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T07:10:07","slug":"california-democrats-shrug-at-their-choices-in-packed-race-to-replace-newsom-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/335637\/","title":{"rendered":"California Democrats shrug at their choices in packed race to replace Newsom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"JXLFK3ZCMJDGBOU4X4I75THML4\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">SACRAMENTO, Calif. \u2014 The packed race for California governor has left many Democrats in the state wrestling with who to vote for in the race\u2019s closing days.<\/p>\n<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"D2VFVRHMTVDCLBQ5XMZITT4WMI\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">Though voting began in early May ahead of the June 2 primary, Democrats have been returning their ballots at a slower pace than normal after a chaotic campaign full of surprises. Unlike recent races for governor, there\u2019s been no clear frontrunner or political superstar (think Republican Arnold Schwarzenegger or Democrat Jerry Brown).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SACRAMENTO, Calif. \u2014 The packed race for California governor has left many Democrats in the state wrestling with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":252672,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[110083,7,9,8,110084,110081,110082,989,18,13,17,138617,1710],"class_list":["post-335637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-2026-election-news","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news","tag-election-latest-news","tag-election-news","tag-election-news-2026","tag-elections","tag-general-news","tag-politics","tag-u-s-news","tag-us-election-2026-california-democrats","tag-voting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335637","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=335637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335637\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/252672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=335637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=335637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=335637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}