{"id":483679,"date":"2026-10-03T07:36:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-03T07:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/483679\/"},"modified":"2026-10-03T07:36:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-03T07:36:08","slug":"2026-general-election-national-city-mayoral-race-explainer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/483679\/","title":{"rendered":"2026 General Election: National City mayoral race explainer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What does the National City mayor do?<\/p>\n<p>National City has a council-manager form of government. Under this system, the city council selects a city manager to oversee the day-to-day operations.<\/p>\n<p>The mayor of National City mostly serves as another member of the city council \u2014 but with a few added responsibilities. The mayor represents the city at official events and in regional bodies like SANDAG. The city\u2019s mayor also has more of a say in what items are on the weekly city council agenda.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"What does the National City mayor do? National City has a council-manager form of government. Under this system,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":483680,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[144001,79871,5119,189384,189385,74,76,75,16607],"class_list":["post-483679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-2026-general-election","tag-mayoral-race","tag-national-city","tag-national-city-mayor","tag-national-city-mayoral-race","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news","tag-voter-guide"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483679","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=483679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483679\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/483680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=483679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=483679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=483679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}