{"id":363580,"date":"2026-06-17T00:41:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T00:41:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/363580\/"},"modified":"2026-06-17T00:41:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T00:41:09","slug":"california-special-primary-election-results-candidates-seek-eric-swalwells-seat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/363580\/","title":{"rendered":"California special primary election results: Candidates seek Eric Swalwell&#8217;s seat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"Q33ESEIWB5AC7NPLVNIGL5IYI4\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">California is holding a special primary election Tuesday to fill the vacancy in its 14th Congressional District left by former Rep. Eric Swalwell (D), who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2026\/04\/13\/eric-swalwell-resigns-congress\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">resigned<\/a> from Congress in mid-April after allegations of sexual assault and misconduct, which he denies.<\/p>\n<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"AKEVHJSWVJGDDOQSWRGUAAEZVI\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">Under California\u2019s primary system, all candidates run on the same ballot regardless of party. The top two vote-getters advance to the general election, which will be held on Aug. 18 for the 14th district.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"California is holding a special primary election Tuesday to fill the vacancy in its 14th Congressional District left&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":343141,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7,9,8],"class_list":["post-363580","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\/363580","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=363580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363580\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/343141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=363580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=363580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=363580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}