{"id":74669,"date":"2026-06-09T19:05:55","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T00:05:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/09\/republican-steve-hilton-advances-in-tight-california-governors-race\/"},"modified":"2026-06-09T19:05:55","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T00:05:55","slug":"republican-steve-hilton-advances-in-tight-california-governors-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/09\/republican-steve-hilton-advances-in-tight-california-governors-race\/","title":{"rendered":"Republican Steve Hilton advances in tight California governor\u2019s race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former UK political operative endorsed by Trump will face off against Democrat Xavier Becerra in November election<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/republicans\">Republican<\/a> Steve Hilton, the former UK political operative turned Fox News personality, has advanced to the November general election in the race to become <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/california\">California<\/a>\u2019s next governor, facing off against Democrat <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/apr\/19\/xavier-becerra-california-governor-interview\">Xavier Becerra<\/a>, a former congressman, state attorney general and US health secretary.<\/p>\n<p>Hilton\u2019s success, a remarkable achievement for a recent immigrant, came after he was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/apr\/06\/trump-steve-hilton-endorsement-california-governor\">endorsed<\/a> by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/donaldtrump\">Donald Trump<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/jun\/09\/steve-hilton-california-governor-primary-election-result\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former UK political operative endorsed by Trump will face off against Democrat Xavier Becerra in November election Republican Steve Hilton, the former UK political operative turned Fox News personality, has advanced to the November general election in the race to become California\u2019s next governor, facing off against Democrat Xavier Becerra, a former congressman, state attorney &#8230; <a title=\"Republican Steve Hilton advances in tight California governor\u2019s race\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/09\/republican-steve-hilton-advances-in-tight-california-governors-race\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Republican Steve Hilton advances in tight California governor\u2019s race\">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-74669","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\/74669","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=74669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74669\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}