{"id":353247,"date":"2026-06-09T15:36:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T15:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/353247\/"},"modified":"2026-06-09T15:36:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T15:36:08","slug":"decision-desk-hq-projects-steve-hilton-will-advance-in-californias-gubernatorial-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/353247\/","title":{"rendered":"Decision Desk HQ projects Steve Hilton will advance in California’s gubernatorial race"},"content":{"rendered":"

WASHINGTON (TNND) \u2014 Decision Desk HQ on Monday evening predicted that California Republican gubernatorial candidate Steve Hilton<\/a> will advance to the top-two primary.<\/p>\n

\u201cDecision Desk HQ projects Steve Hilton wins the second of two spots in the CA Governor Top-Two Primary,\u201d Decision Desk HQ wrote on the social media platform, X. \u201c#DecisionMade 8:37 PM EDT.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hilton said that it was an exciting night, but the Associated Press had not called the race yet<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cThank you so much for all your congratulations!\u201d he wrote on X. \u201cWe always said we would wait for @AP_RaceCalls before declaring victory so we’re not popping the champagne just yet…but it’s definitely time for a beer!\u201d<\/p>\n

Former Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra has advanced to the primary election with 27.7% of the vote with 82.9% of the vote counted.<\/p>\n

Hilton is at 25.1% and Democratic billionaire Tom Steyer is at 22.4%, according to NBC News.<\/a><\/p>\n

The election took place on June 2, but its taken days to count ballots.<\/p>\n

Last week, Hilton slammed the state for the amount of time it took to count ballots.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThis is COMPLETELY unacceptable,\u201d he wrote on X. \u201cThere must be accountability for all the officials responsible for California’s election shambles.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WASHINGTON (TNND) \u2014 Decision Desk HQ on Monday evening predicted that California Republican gubernatorial candidate Steve Hilton will…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":353248,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7,9,8],"class_list":["post-353247","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\/353247","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=353247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353247\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/353248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=353247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=353247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=353247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}