{"id":63233,"date":"2025-11-21T05:25:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T05:25:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/63233\/"},"modified":"2025-11-21T05:25:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T05:25:09","slug":"rep-eric-swalwell-joins-competitive-california-governor-race-nbc-bay-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/63233\/","title":{"rendered":"Rep. Eric Swalwell joins competitive California governor race \u2013 NBC Bay Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Congressman Eric Swalwell announced he is running for California governor Thursday night.<\/p>\n<p>Swalwell&#8217;s candidacy for California governor was revealed through the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ericswalwell.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">congressman&#8217;s new website<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>The announcement came as many others have also joined the already crowded and competitive race for the governor&#8217;s seat, including former California Attorney General Xavier Becerra, former Congresswoman Katie Porter, former Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, and California State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tony Thurmond.<\/p>\n<p>Swalwell represents the 14th California Congressional District, which covers parts of the East Bay including Dublin, Livermore, Hayward, San Leandro, Fremont and Union City. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Congressman Eric Swalwell announced he is running for California governor Thursday night. Swalwell&#8217;s candidacy for California governor was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":59642,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7,9,8,332,13],"class_list":["post-63233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news","tag-east-bay","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63233","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=63233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63233\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}