{"id":344705,"date":"2026-06-03T12:35:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T12:35:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/344705\/"},"modified":"2026-06-03T12:35:14","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T12:35:14","slug":"a-breakdown-of-fresno-countys-voter-turnout-for-primary-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/344705\/","title":{"rendered":"A breakdown of Fresno County&#8217;s voter turnout for primary election"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Billionaire climate activist Tom Steyer told supporters he and his backers &#8220;know we finished really strong.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Billionaire climate activist Tom Steyer told supporters he and his backers &#8220;know we finished really strong.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Steyer pledged to advance progressive policies like universal healthcare and aggressive climate policy, ideas he reiterated as votes were still being tallied.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">&#8220;We should have a system based on fairness, not on asking for fairness,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Steyer&#8217;s campaign spent or booked more than $203 million in ads for broadcast TV, cable and radio, yielding accusations from some that he had tried to buy the election.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">But Steyer noted that major corporate interests, including a major California utility, dumped money into defeating him because he&#8217;s the candidate willing to take them on.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">&#8220;I welcome their hatred,&#8221; Steyer said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Billionaire climate activist Tom Steyer told supporters he and his backers &#8220;know we finished really strong.&#8221; Billionaire climate&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":344706,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[141168,112,114,113],"class_list":["post-344705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-141168","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344705","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=344705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344705\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/344706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=344705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=344705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=344705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}