{"id":348798,"date":"2026-06-06T00:15:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-06T00:15:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/348798\/"},"modified":"2026-06-06T00:15:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-06T00:15:11","slug":"democrat-xavier-becerra-advances-in-california-governors-race-ap-projects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/348798\/","title":{"rendered":"Democrat Xavier Becerra Advances in California Governor\u2019s Race, AP Projects"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Democrat Xavier Becerra advanced to California\u2019s general election for governor, <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/california-governor-election-primary-2026-98b2b4dcca6813c3ffeb9754bd09805d\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">The Associated Press<\/a> projected, after campaigning on his decades of experience in public office and pledging to continue the state\u2019s opposition to President Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<p>A former California attorney general and U.S. health secretary, Becerra highlighted his more than 35 years in government service and his record of filing more than 120 legal actions against the first Trump administration.<\/p>\n<p>If elected, Becerra said he would address housing, energy and insurance costs. He would be California\u2019s first Latino governor since the late 1800s.<\/p>\n<p><a data-no-instant=\"1\" href=\"https:\/\/gvwire.com\/contact\/\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"a2t-link\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"GVWire-Ad-Get-our-mobile-app-1280\u00d790-1\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/GVWire-Ad-Get-our-mobile-app-1280x90-1-1.jpg\" alt=\"\"   width=\"1280\" height=\"90\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/california-governor-election-primary-2026-98b2b4dcca6813c3ffeb9754bd09805d\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read more at AP.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Democrat Xavier Becerra advanced to California\u2019s general election for governor, The Associated Press projected, after campaigning on his&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":348799,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7,9,8],"class_list":["post-348798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348798","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=348798"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348798\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/348799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=348798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=348798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=348798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}