{"id":357828,"date":"2026-06-12T13:14:07","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T13:14:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/357828\/"},"modified":"2026-06-12T13:14:07","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T13:14:07","slug":"opinion-california-economy-leaves-voters-frustrated-and-democrats-in-trouble","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/357828\/","title":{"rendered":"Opinion | California economy leaves voters frustrated and Democrats in trouble"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"TNZZQYRPE5HYXKHGZSOF7S6HRM\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">At a time when President Donald Trump and Republicans are faring poorly in most polls, the story has been different in California. Republican Steve Hilton finished ahead of many high-spending Democrats in the governor\u2019s race to advance to the November election facing Democrat Xavier Becerra. In Los Angeles, an overwhelmingly Democratic city, Spencer Pratt, a Republican who ran as an independent and is a former reality television personality, looked as if he might make the mayoral general election before finishing third.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"At a time when President Donald Trump and Republicans are faring poorly in most polls, the story has&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":357829,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7,9,8],"class_list":["post-357828","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\/357828","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=357828"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357828\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/357829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=357828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=357828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=357828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}