{"id":50025,"date":"2026-06-03T17:34:34","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T17:34:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=50025"},"modified":"2026-06-03T17:34:34","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T17:34:34","slug":"steve-hilton-holds-slim-early-lead-in-california-governors-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=50025","title":{"rendered":"Steve Hilton Holds Slim Early Lead in California Governor\u2019s Race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<p aria-live=\"assertive\" class=\"css-1dv1kvn\">new video loaded: Steve Hilton Holds Slim Early Lead in California Governor\u2019s Race<\/p>\n<p>transcript<\/p>\n<p><span>Back<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1nng8z9\">transcript<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"css-8p0vwh\">Steve Hilton Holds Slim Early Lead in California Governor\u2019s Race<\/h2>\n<h4 class=\"css-qsd3hm\">Steve Hilton, a Republican and former Fox News host, held a narrow lead in early votes over two Democratic opponents in California\u2019s nonpartisan primary for governor. The top two candidates will advance to the general election in November.<\/h4>\n<p class=\"css-8hvvyd\">\u201cChange is coming to California, and it\u2019s long overdue. I want to just say something from my heart to every single person who\u2019s voted for me. We\u2019re not \u2014 We\u2019re not there yet, but it\u2019s looking good.\u201d [cheers] \u201cTonight, the people of the great state of California, in the greatest nation on earth, have spoken. [cheers] Loudly and proudly. [cheers] And while I take nothing for granted, there are lots of ballots left to be counted, it appears that we are on track to advance to November.\u201d [cheers] \u201cIt might take some time to figure out where this is going. We\u2019re going to wait until every ballot is counted. We\u2019re going to give democracy a time to work, and we know we finished really strong.\u201d [cheers]<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"css-hple31\">Steve Hilton, a Republican and former Fox News host, held a narrow lead in early votes over two Democratic opponents in California\u2019s nonpartisan primary for governor. The top two candidates will advance to the general election in November.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>By Axel Boada<\/p>\n<p>June 3, 2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>new video loaded: Steve Hilton Holds Slim Early Lead in California Governor\u2019s Race transcript Back transcript Steve Hilton Holds Slim Early Lead in California Governor\u2019s Race Steve Hilton, a Republican and former Fox News host, held a narrow lead in early votes over two Democratic opponents in California\u2019s nonpartisan primary for governor. The top two<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":50026,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[667,442,16747,922,518,1660,2475,13492,4393],"class_list":{"0":"post-50025","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-crime-justice","8":"tag-california","9":"tag-early","10":"tag-governors","11":"tag-hilton","12":"tag-holds","13":"tag-lead","14":"tag-race","15":"tag-slim","16":"tag-steve"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50025","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=50025"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50025\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/50026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}