{"id":49139,"date":"2026-05-06T09:42:23","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T09:42:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=49139"},"modified":"2026-05-06T09:42:23","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T09:42:23","slug":"california-governors-race-heats-up-on-crowded-debate-stage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=49139","title":{"rendered":"California Governor\u2019s Race Heats Up on Crowded Debate Stage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<p aria-live=\"assertive\" class=\"css-1dv1kvn\">new video loaded: California Governor\u2019s Race Heats Up on Crowded Debate Stage<\/p>\n<p>transcript<\/p>\n<p><span>Back<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1nng8z9\">transcript<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"css-8p0vwh\">California Governor\u2019s Race Heats Up on Crowded Debate Stage<\/h2>\n<h4 class=\"css-qsd3hm\">Attacks got personal as California\u2019s top seven candidates for governor faced off on Tuesday ahead of the primary on June 2.<\/h4>\n<p class=\"css-8hvvyd\">\u201cDon\u2019t pull those stupid statements out and expect to not be called out.\u201d \u201cYou\u2019re an oathkeeper.\u201d \u201cYou\u2019re not qualified to be governor of California.\u201d \u201cTom, one of these days let us know how much money you have in the Cayman Islands so we can make sure we tax you.\u201d \u201cXavier Becerra has taken the max amount of money from Chevron.\u201d \u201cI think everyone\u2019s invoking my name. It\u2019s nice to hear my name quite a bit, and they\u2019re at least pronouncing it correctly.\u201d \u201cHe is mired personally in a corruption scandal.\u201d \u201cI was not involved.\u201d \u201cPresident Biden openly talked about firing him.\u201d \u201cCalifornians can decide for themselves about my temperament based on what they\u2019ve seen here tonight. I\u2019m able to take responsibility, I\u2019m able to follow the rules, I\u2019m able to say I\u2019m sorry and I\u2019m able to do better.\u201d \u201cSteve and I sat here smiling at each other because we\u2019re just watching you all prove to everyone why they can\u2019t vote for a Democrat.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"css-hple31\">Attacks got personal as California\u2019s top seven candidates for governor faced off on Tuesday ahead of the primary on June 2.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>By Shawn Paik<\/p>\n<p>May 6, 2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>new video loaded: California Governor\u2019s Race Heats Up on Crowded Debate Stage transcript Back transcript California Governor\u2019s Race Heats Up on Crowded Debate Stage Attacks got personal as California\u2019s top seven candidates for governor faced off on Tuesday ahead of the primary on June 2. \u201cDon\u2019t pull those stupid statements out and expect to not<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":49140,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[667,15194,638,16747,1630,2475,232],"class_list":{"0":"post-49139","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-crime-justice","8":"tag-california","9":"tag-crowded","10":"tag-debate","11":"tag-governors","12":"tag-heats","13":"tag-race","14":"tag-stage"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49139\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/49140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}