{"id":74485,"date":"2026-06-05T09:55:50","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T14:55:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/05\/california-governors-race-remains-too-close-to-call-as-vote-counting-continues\/"},"modified":"2026-06-05T09:55:50","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T14:55:50","slug":"california-governors-race-remains-too-close-to-call-as-vote-counting-continues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/05\/california-governors-race-remains-too-close-to-call-as-vote-counting-continues\/","title":{"rendered":"California governor\u2019s race remains too close to call as vote-counting continues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Experts warn primary vote-counting could go on for days in governor\u2019s race, LA mayoral race and congressional races<\/p>\n<p>Three days after Californians headed to the polls, key races in the primary election remained too close to call and experts warned the counting could continue for days.<\/p>\n<p>In the governor\u2019s race, the British-born conservative pundit Steve Hilton was narrowly leading with an estimated 60% of ballots counted by Friday morning. Xavier Becerra, a former US health and human services secretary under Joe Biden, followed closely behind, and billionaire Tom Steyer trailed behind the pair. The top two vote-getters will advance to the general election in November.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/jun\/05\/california-primary-election-races-too-close-to-call\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Experts warn primary vote-counting could go on for days in governor\u2019s race, LA mayoral race and congressional races Three days after Californians headed to the polls, key races in the primary election remained too close to call and experts warned the counting could continue for days. In the governor\u2019s race, the British-born conservative pundit Steve &#8230; <a title=\"California governor\u2019s race remains too close to call as vote-counting continues\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/05\/california-governors-race-remains-too-close-to-call-as-vote-counting-continues\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about California governor\u2019s race remains too close to call as vote-counting continues\">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-74485","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\/74485","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=74485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74485\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}