{"id":343226,"date":"2026-06-02T18:19:07","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T18:19:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/343226\/"},"modified":"2026-06-02T18:19:07","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T18:19:07","slug":"why-the-results-of-the-california-primary-might-not-come-in-on-election-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/343226\/","title":{"rendered":"Why the Results of the California Primary Might Not Come in on Election Night"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-testid=\"paragraph-element\" class=\"rich-text mb-6 font-graphik text-body-large text-black-coffee focus-visible:outline focus-visible:outline-black-coffee focus-visible:outline-2 focus-visible:outline-offset-2 focus-visible:shadow-focus-color text-left\">The outcome of the primary in the race for <a href=\"https:\/\/time.com\/7293440\/gavin-newsom-california-governor-career-president-trump-rivalry-ambition-history\/\" title=\"undefined\" target=\"undefined\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Gov. Gavin Newsom<\/a>\u2019s successor in particular is the subject of widespread anticipation, with two candidates set to advance after months of tumult and uncertainty. After former Vice President Kamala Harris, who many expected to launch a bid for Newsom\u2019s seat, announced that she wasn\u2019t going to run, it seemed as though then-Rep. Eric Swalwell was the leading candidate in the <a href=\"https:\/\/time.com\/7335905\/newsom-california-governor-race-candidates-election-primary\/\" title=\"undefined\" target=\"undefined\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">crowded field<\/a> of Democrats vying for the governor\u2019s office. But with less than two months until the day of the primary, Swalwell <a href=\"https:\/\/time.com\/article\/2026\/04\/12\/eric-swalwell-sexual-misconduct-allegations\/\" title=\"undefined\" target=\"undefined\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ended his campaign<\/a> following several reported allegations of sexual misconduct, which he denied.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The outcome of the primary in the race for Gov. Gavin Newsom\u2019s successor in particular is the subject&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":343227,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7,9,8,13482],"class_list":["post-343226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news","tag-news-desk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343226","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=343226"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343226\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/343227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=343226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=343226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=343226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}