{"id":352942,"date":"2026-06-09T10:51:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T10:51:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/352942\/"},"modified":"2026-06-09T10:51:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T10:51:11","slug":"golden-state-democrats-next-challenge-fix-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/352942\/","title":{"rendered":"Golden State Democrats\u2019 Next Challenge: Fix California"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Several<br \/>\nother candidates, including Elizabeth Warren acolyte Katie Porter and former<br \/>\nLos Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, fell short. This was the most expensive<br \/>\nelection in California history, with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/06\/03\/us\/elections\/california-governor-campaign-finance.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">$316 million spent<\/a>. Two hundred million of that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/magazine\/2026\/05\/31\/california-governor-polls-elections-roundtable-00933722\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">came from Steyer<\/a> tapping his personal war chest, along<br \/>\nwith a myriad of corporate donations for Becerra and Hilton. <\/p>\n<p>In any<br \/>\ncase, Californians will have to wait a few more days for the primary dust to<br \/>\nsettle, and then it\u2019s on to November to decide on who will replace the<br \/>\npresumably presidential primary\u2013bound Gavin Newsom and sort out the myriad<br \/>\nchallenges he\u2019ll leave behind: skyrocketing costs of living, a lack of housing,<br \/>\nan increasing number of climate change\u2013driven wildfires, and the constant<br \/>\nanimosity of the Trump administration. <\/p>\n<p>With<br \/>\nBecerra already called as one of the candidates, and Hilton leading by several<br \/>\npercentage points over Steyer, it looks as if the final showdown will be<br \/>\nbetween Becerra and Hilton. If so, Becerra, the sole Democrat in the race, will<br \/>\nlikely take the state. Why that matters nationwide is that Becerra, like many<br \/>\nveteran Democrats, is a poster child for much of the Democratic leadership\u2014experienced<br \/>\nbut moderate. While I would like to give Becerra a chance to prove himself, as<br \/>\nhe stands, he will be much like\u2014well, Gavin Newsom. \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Several other candidates, including Elizabeth Warren acolyte Katie Porter and former Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, fell short.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":352943,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7,9,8],"class_list":["post-352942","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\/352942","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=352942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352942\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/352943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=352942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=352942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=352942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}