{"id":74385,"date":"2026-06-03T09:59:15","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T14:59:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/03\/california-primary-election-results-governors-race-too-close-to-call\/"},"modified":"2026-06-03T09:59:15","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T14:59:15","slug":"california-primary-election-results-governors-race-too-close-to-call","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/03\/california-primary-election-results-governors-race-too-close-to-call\/","title":{"rendered":"California primary election results: governor\u2019s race too close to call"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Early results show Steve Hilton, Xavier Becerra and Tom Steyer emerging in front, with many ballots to be counted<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/live\/2026\/jun\/03\/us-midterm-primaries-politics-donald-trump-california-governor-latest-news-updates\">US politics live: latest news updates<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The high-stakes gubernatorial race in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/california\">California<\/a> remained too close to call on Wednesday morning, with early results showing a tight contest in the crowded race.<\/p>\n<p>With many ballots still left to be counted, three candidates emerged at the top: the Republican Steve Hilton and the Democrats Xavier Becerra and Tom Steyer. Hilton was leading the field, with 28%, trailed closely by Becerra.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/jun\/03\/california-governor-election\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Early results show Steve Hilton, Xavier Becerra and Tom Steyer emerging in front, with many ballots to be counted US politics live: latest news updates The high-stakes gubernatorial race in California remained too close to call on Wednesday morning, with early results showing a tight contest in the crowded race. With many ballots still left &#8230; <a title=\"California primary election results: governor\u2019s race too close to call\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/03\/california-primary-election-results-governors-race-too-close-to-call\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about California primary election results: governor\u2019s race too close to call\">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-74385","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\/74385","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=74385"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74385\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}