{"id":37749,"date":"2025-04-02T16:23:20","date_gmt":"2025-04-02T16:23:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/02\/xavier-becerra-joins-crowded-california-governors-race-amid-democratic-shake-up\/"},"modified":"2025-04-02T16:23:20","modified_gmt":"2025-04-02T16:23:20","slug":"xavier-becerra-joins-crowded-california-governors-race-amid-democratic-shake-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/02\/xavier-becerra-joins-crowded-california-governors-race-amid-democratic-shake-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Xavier Becerra joins crowded California governor\u2019s race amid Democratic shake-up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former Biden health secretary and state attorney general enters race as speculation swirls over Kamala Harris\u2019s plans<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/live\/2025\/apr\/02\/donald-trump-tariffs-trade-latest-live-us-politics-news\">US politics live \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Former <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/biden-administration\">Biden administration<\/a> health secretary Xavier Becerra on Wednesday became the latest Democrat to join the crowded field seeking to become California\u2019s next governor, a contest that could be dramatically reshaped if former vice-president <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/kamala-harris\">Kamala Harris<\/a> becomes a candidate.<\/p>\n<p>The Stanford Law School graduate enters the race with a lengthy r\u00e9sum\u00e9 of government service, including stints as California attorney general, US House member and state legislator. In December 2020, Joe Biden picked Becerra to lead the Department of Health and Human Services, putting a defender of the Affordable Care Act in a leading role to oversee his administration\u2019s coronavirus response.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/apr\/02\/xavier-becerra-run-california-governor\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Biden health secretary and state attorney general enters race as speculation swirls over Kamala Harris\u2019s plans US politics live \u2013 latest updates Former Biden administration health secretary Xavier Becerra on Wednesday became the latest Democrat to join the crowded field seeking to become California\u2019s next governor, a contest that could be dramatically reshaped if &#8230; <a title=\"Xavier Becerra joins crowded California governor\u2019s race amid Democratic shake-up\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/02\/xavier-becerra-joins-crowded-california-governors-race-amid-democratic-shake-up\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Xavier Becerra joins crowded California governor\u2019s race amid Democratic shake-up\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37749","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37749"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37749\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}