{"id":74324,"date":"2026-06-02T05:55:20","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T10:55:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/02\/californians-head-to-the-polls-as-governor-primary-goes-down-to-the-wire-us-politics-live\/"},"modified":"2026-06-02T05:55:20","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T10:55:20","slug":"californians-head-to-the-polls-as-governor-primary-goes-down-to-the-wire-us-politics-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/02\/californians-head-to-the-polls-as-governor-primary-goes-down-to-the-wire-us-politics-live\/","title":{"rendered":"Californians head to the polls as governor primary goes down to the wire \u2013 US politics live"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Other races also taking place in state as well as primaries in New Jersey, South Dakota, New Mexico, Iowa and Montana<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2026\/feb\/17\/sign-up-for-the-breaking-news-us-email-to-get-newsletter-alerts-direct-to-your-inbox?utm_medium=ACQUISITIONS_STANDFIRST&amp;utm_campaign=BN22326&amp;utm_content=signup&amp;utm_term=standfirst&amp;utm_source=GUARDIAN_WEB\"><strong>Sign up to the Breaking News US email<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Donald Trump is reconsidering whether to keep pressing for a $1.8bn fund to compensate his allies, a person familiar with his thinking said on Monday, as the justice department paused the program to comply with a court order.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Trump\u2019s \u201canti-weaponization\u201d fund has faced legal setbacks since it was announced two weeks ago. The idea has also faced a mounting political backlash from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/republicans\">Republicans<\/a> concerned by a lack of oversight and the possibility of payouts to participants in the January 6 2021 riot at the US Capitol.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/live\/2026\/jun\/02\/donald-trump-primaries-midterms-california-governor-iran-latest-news-updates\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Other races also taking place in state as well as primaries in New Jersey, South Dakota, New Mexico, Iowa and Montana Sign up to the Breaking News US email Donald Trump is reconsidering whether to keep pressing for a $1.8bn fund to compensate his allies, a person familiar with his thinking said on Monday, as &#8230; <a title=\"Californians head to the polls as governor primary goes down to the wire \u2013 US politics live\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/02\/californians-head-to-the-polls-as-governor-primary-goes-down-to-the-wire-us-politics-live\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Californians head to the polls as governor primary goes down to the wire \u2013 US politics live\">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-74324","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\/74324","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=74324"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74324\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}