{"id":339625,"date":"2026-05-31T00:09:15","date_gmt":"2026-05-31T00:09:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/339625\/"},"modified":"2026-05-31T00:09:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-31T00:09:15","slug":"becerra-pulls-ahead-in-california-gubernatorial-primary-polls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/339625\/","title":{"rendered":"Becerra Pulls Ahead in California Gubernatorial Primary Polls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody___5jDr\" data-component=\"paragraph\">Democrat Xavier Becerra has taken front-runner status in the California gubernatorial primary election on Tuesday, but the race is neck-and-neck for who his opponent might be in the general election.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody___5jDr\" data-component=\"paragraph\">Two polls released days before the June 2 vote show former President Joe Biden\u2019s Health and Human Services secretary in the top spot in the state\u2019s jungle primary, where the top two vote recipients \u2014 regardless of party \u2014 move on to the general elections in November.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Democrat Xavier Becerra has taken front-runner status in the California gubernatorial primary election on Tuesday, but the race&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":339626,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7,9,8,1525,989,139928,123810,13912,5409,13,12417,24125,3707],"class_list":["post-339625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news","tag-democratic-party","tag-elections","tag-eric-michael-swalwell","tag-jason-henry","tag-joe-biden","tag-policy","tag-politics","tag-u-s-democrats","tag-u-s-republicans","tag-xavier-becerra"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339625","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=339625"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339625\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/339626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=339625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=339625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=339625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}