{"id":80801,"date":"2026-11-02T11:54:56","date_gmt":"2026-11-02T16:54:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/02\/xavier-becerras-california-dream-faces-reality-check-as-governors-mansion-beckons\/"},"modified":"2026-11-02T11:54:56","modified_gmt":"2026-11-02T16:54:56","slug":"xavier-becerras-california-dream-faces-reality-check-as-governors-mansion-beckons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/02\/xavier-becerras-california-dream-faces-reality-check-as-governors-mansion-beckons\/","title":{"rendered":"Xavier Becerra\u2019s \u2018California dream\u2019 faces reality check as governor\u2019s mansion beckons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former US representative, health secretary and state attorney general is a shoo-in after a stunning comeback victory in primary<\/p>\n<p>It was Tuesday, and the man poised to be the next governor of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/california\">California<\/a> wanted to talk about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/donaldtrump\">Donald Trump<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Xavier Becerra had come to Guelaguetza restaurant in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/los-angeles\">Los Angeles<\/a> to talk about Trump\u2019s attacks on voting in the state, but instead found himself answering questions about a presidential provocation of a different order.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/nov\/02\/xavier-becerra-california-governor-race\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former US representative, health secretary and state attorney general is a shoo-in after a stunning comeback victory in primary It was Tuesday, and the man poised to be the next governor of California wanted to talk about Donald Trump. Xavier Becerra had come to Guelaguetza restaurant in Los Angeles to talk about Trump\u2019s attacks on &#8230; <a title=\"Xavier Becerra\u2019s \u2018California dream\u2019 faces reality check as governor\u2019s mansion beckons\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/02\/xavier-becerras-california-dream-faces-reality-check-as-governors-mansion-beckons\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Xavier Becerra\u2019s \u2018California dream\u2019 faces reality check as governor\u2019s mansion beckons\">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_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80801","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=80801"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80801\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}