{"id":482144,"date":"2026-10-02T00:12:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-02T00:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/482144\/"},"modified":"2026-10-02T00:12:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T00:12:09","slug":"california-governor-debate-takeaways-and-how-gas-prices-are-shaping-swing-house-races","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/482144\/","title":{"rendered":"California Governor Debate Takeaways and How Gas Prices Are Shaping Swing House Races"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In what may be their only debate of the season, Becerra avoided a misstep and Hilton pitched himself as the change California needs. <\/p>\n<p>Oct 1, 2026<\/p>\n<p>Updated 4:27 pm PT<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kqed.org\/author\/mlagos\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Marisa Lagos<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kqed.org\/author\/gmarzorati\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Guy Marzorati<\/a><img src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/GettyImages-2297487550.jpg\"   width=\"1772\" height=\"1233\" alt=\"\" loading=\"eager\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Viewers at Victorio&#8217;s Ristorante in North Hollywood attend a watch party for the CNN debate between gubernatorial candidates Democrat Xavier Becerra, left, and Republican Steve Hilton Wednesday night, Sept. 30, 2026. \u00a0(Jason Almond \/ Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In what may be their only debate of the season, Becerra avoided a misstep and Hilton pitched himself&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":482145,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7,9,8],"class_list":["post-482144","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\/482144","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=482144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482144\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/482145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=482144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=482144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=482144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}