{"id":348083,"date":"2026-06-05T14:53:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T14:53:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/348083\/"},"modified":"2026-06-05T14:53:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T14:53:11","slug":"gop-gubernatorial-candidate-hilton-slams-california-as-state-takes-days-to-count-votes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/348083\/","title":{"rendered":"GOP gubernatorial candidate Hilton slams California as state takes days to count votes"},"content":{"rendered":"

WASHINGTON (TNND) \u2014 California GOP gubernatorial candidate Steve Hilton on Friday slammed the state as it takes days to count votes for the election.<\/a><\/p>\n

Hilton was responding to a report that stated that Ventura County wouldn’t have another election update until June 9.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is COMPLETELY unacceptable,\u201d he wrote on X<\/a>. \u201cThere must be accountability for all the officials responsible for California’s election shambles.\u201d<\/p>\n

The election for governor in California took place on June 2. As of June 5, 60% of the votes have been counted, according to The New York Times.<\/a><\/p>\n

Hilton leads at 27.2%, former Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra is at second place with 26% and billionaire Tom Steyer has 20.2% of the vote.<\/p>\n

Decision Desk HQ has already predicted Becerra as one of the two winners in the California primary.<\/p>\n

The top two candidates will advance to the election in November.<\/p>\n

In the race for Los Angeles mayor, 64% of the votes have been counted. Incumbent Karen Bass has already advanced to the November election. Former reality TV star Spencer Pratt is in second place with 29.4% of the vote and Los Angeles Councilmember Nithya Raman has 23.4% of the vote.<\/p>\n

\u201cGod always wins,\u201d Pratt wrote on X earlier this week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WASHINGTON (TNND) \u2014 California GOP gubernatorial candidate Steve Hilton on Friday slammed the state as it takes days…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":348084,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7,9,8,142598,17942,65343,4132,51488,17382,142597],"class_list":["post-348083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news","tag-election-update","tag-gop","tag-gubernatorial","tag-karen-bass","tag-los-angeles-mayor","tag-steve-hilton","tag-vote-counting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348083","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=348083"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348083\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/348084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=348083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=348083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=348083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}