{"id":352417,"date":"2026-06-09T01:18:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T01:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/352417\/"},"modified":"2026-06-09T01:18:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T01:18:08","slug":"california-governor-race-tom-steyer-gains-but-it-may-not-be-enough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/352417\/","title":{"rendered":"California Governor Race: Tom Steyer Gains, But It May Not Be Enough"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tDemocrat Tom Steyer<\/a>, still hoping to compete against Democrat Xavier Becerra<\/a> in November\u2019s California gubernatorial election, has made gains in the vote count, but it may not be enough to overtake Republican Steve Hilton<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe latest results after Monday\u2019s vote drop have Hilton with 25% of the vote, and Steyer with 22.3%. Becerra, who on Friday was projected to move on to the November election, has 27.6%.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn the latest counts, Steyer has made gains in areas such as Los Angeles County, where he added 58,642 votes in the latest drop, to Hilton with 26,496. But those gains have been countered by Hilton\u2019s performance outside Democratic strongholds.<\/p>\n

\n\tAccording to the California Secretary of State, about 2.4 million ballots remain to be counted statewide.<\/p>\n

\n\tCalifornia\u2019s open primary means that the top two finishers go on to the November general election, regardless of party.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn Los Angeles County, Steyer trails Becerra, 25.64% to 31.4%, but leads Hilton, who is at 25.6%. <\/p>\n

\n\tBecerra, the former secretary of health and human services and state attorney general, was written off as an also-ran in the race until the Democratic front runner, Eric Swalwell, dropped out amid sexual misconduct allegations in April. Becerra rose in the polls, surpassing Steyer, who has shelled out more than $200 million on his campaign ad, per the AP. <\/p>\n

\n\tHilton, the former Fox News host, has been running a campaign focused on what he calls the failures of one-party rule in the state, given Democrats control of all statewide offices and the legislature. No Republican has been elected statewide since 2006, the year Arnold Schwarzenegger was reelected as governor. If he makes the November race, Hilton will face the hurdle of running in a blue state and with the endorsement of Donald Trump, who is deeply unpopular.<\/p>\n

\n\tOn Monday, Becerra posted a response to Trump\u2019s claim that the state\u2019s protracted vote count is an example of Democrats cheating. Becerra wrote on X, \u201cCalifornia isn\u2019t the problem. Trump\u2019s hatred of our democracy is. In California, we count every vote. Not just the ones Donald Trump likes.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Democrat Tom Steyer, still hoping to compete against Democrat Xavier Becerra in November\u2019s California gubernatorial election, has made…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":352418,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7,2926,9,8,17353,17382,25299,3707],"class_list":["post-352417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-california","tag-california-governor","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news","tag-electionline","tag-steve-hilton","tag-tom-steyer","tag-xavier-becerra"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352417","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=352417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352417\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/352418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=352417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=352417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=352417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}