{"id":253271,"date":"2026-06-03T04:49:57","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T04:49:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/253271\/"},"modified":"2026-06-03T04:49:57","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T04:49:57","slug":"tom-steyer-sings-karaoke-with-drag-queens-night-before-california-primary-on-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/253271\/","title":{"rendered":"Tom Steyer Sings Karaoke With Drag Queens Night Before California Primary, On video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            Play video content<\/p>\n<p>                    <img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/800a5421d6f840e7bdbaac9f35d40cf8_md.png\" alt=\"060226_tom_steyer_kal\" width=\"728\" height=\"410\" class=\"img-fluid\"\/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/people\/tom-steyer\/\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tom Steyer<\/a> spent the final hours before Election Day making one thing clear &#8230; he&#8217;s not backing down &#8230; and he used karaoke and drag queens to make his point.<\/p>\n<p>TMZ obtained video of the California gubernatorial candidate taking the stage Monday night at GYM Bar WeHo, where he grabbed a microphone and belted out <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/people\/tom-petty\/\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tom Petty<\/a>&#8216;s classic anthem, &#8220;I Won&#8217;t Back Down,&#8221; alongside drag performers.<\/p>\n<p>Roll the tape &#8230; Tom appears right at home under the lights &#8230; smiling, singing, and working the crowd. He sticks close to the song&#8217;s defiant message, tailor-made for a candidate heading into a crucial primary.<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"continued\" class=\"continued-anchor\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Tom was there for the bar&#8217;s &#8220;CrayCray Karaoke&#8221; night &#8230; and it was a packed house. Not a bad place to do some last-minute campaigning.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ll see if Tom stands his ground in the crowded race for California governor &#8230; votes are due today &#8230; so stay tuned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Play video content Tom Steyer spent the final hours before Election Day making one thing clear &#8230; he&#8217;s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":253272,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[9,24,63,122,124,123],"class_list":["post-253271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=253271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253271\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/253272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}