{"id":518022,"date":"2026-11-04T07:24:04","date_gmt":"2026-11-04T07:24:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/518022\/"},"modified":"2026-11-04T07:24:04","modified_gmt":"2026-11-04T07:24:04","slug":"democrat-xavier-becerra-projected-to-win-california-governor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/518022\/","title":{"rendered":"Democrat Xavier Becerra projected to win California governor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 Democrat Xavier Becerra is projected to win the California gubernatorial race, according to the Associated Press.<\/p>\n<p>The November 3rd election was against Republican Steve Hilton to succeed Gavin Newsom. Newsom is unable to seek a third term.<\/p>\n<p>Becerra spent 35 years serving California in the state assembly, U.S. Congress, and as state attorney general. He is also a former United States Secretary of Health and Human Services.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.xavierbecerra2026.com\/priorities\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Becerra\u2019s policy agenda<\/a>, he has vowed to issue an executive order on his first day as governor declaring California&#8217;s housing shortage a state of emergency and an executive order to direct state agencies to maintain coverage continuity for \u201cevery Californian affected by federal cuts or Medi-Cal rollbacks.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Becerra will be California\u2019s first Latino governor since the late 19th century.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 Democrat Xavier Becerra is projected to win the California gubernatorial race, according to the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":518023,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":["post-518022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield-headlines","tag-bakersfield-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518022","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=518022"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518022\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/518023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=518022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=518022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=518022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}