{"id":69903,"date":"2026-03-24T17:57:43","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T22:57:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/24\/california-governor-poll-raises-prospect-of-two-republicans-contesting-runoff\/"},"modified":"2026-03-24T17:57:43","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T22:57:43","slug":"california-governor-poll-raises-prospect-of-two-republicans-contesting-runoff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/24\/california-governor-poll-raises-prospect-of-two-republicans-contesting-runoff\/","title":{"rendered":"California governor poll raises prospect of two Republicans contesting runoff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Survey puts Steve Hilton and Chad Bianco ahead with Democratic vote split between large field of candidates<\/p>\n<p>Republicans continue to lead the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/california\">California<\/a> governor\u2019s race amid a crowded field of Democrats, a <a href=\"https:\/\/cadem.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/CA-Voter-Index-Baseline-Survey-03.23.26.pdf\">new poll<\/a> commissioned by the state\u2019s Democratic party found, fueling concerns of a conservative win in the famously liberal state.<\/p>\n<p>The party on Tuesday published the results of a large-scale poll of 2,000 likely voters conducted by Evitarus Research<strong> <\/strong>that revealed that 16% of participants would back the conservative political commentator Steve Hilton in the upcoming primary, while 14% would support Chad Bianco, the Riverside county sheriff.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/mar\/24\/california-governor-election-republicans\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Survey puts Steve Hilton and Chad Bianco ahead with Democratic vote split between large field of candidates Republicans continue to lead the California governor\u2019s race amid a crowded field of Democrats, a new poll commissioned by the state\u2019s Democratic party found, fueling concerns of a conservative win in the famously liberal state. The party on &#8230; <a title=\"California governor poll raises prospect of two Republicans contesting runoff\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/24\/california-governor-poll-raises-prospect-of-two-republicans-contesting-runoff\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about California governor poll raises prospect of two Republicans contesting runoff\">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-69903","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\/69903","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=69903"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69903\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}