{"id":5370,"date":"2026-06-09T09:00:26","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T06:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/?p=5370"},"modified":"2026-06-09T09:00:26","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T06:00:26","slug":"republican-steve-hilton-advances-in-california-gubernatorial-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/republican-steve-hilton-advances-in-california-gubernatorial-race\/","title":{"rendered":"Republican Steve Hilton Advances in California Gubernatorial Race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to <em>Breitbart News<\/em>, Becerra captured 2,177,556 votes, representing 27.67 percent of the total, while Hilton finished in second place with 1,975,062 votes, or 25.10 percent, according to Decision Desk HQ.<\/p>\n<p>Democrat candidate <strong>Tom Steyer<\/strong> placed third in the primary with 1,759,328 votes, earning 22.36 percent of the vote.<\/p>\n<p>President <strong>Donald Trump<\/strong> threw his support behind Hilton in April, praising him as someone who has witnessed California&#8217;s decline under Democrat control. In a Truth Social post, Trump wrote that Hilton is <em>a truly fine man<\/em> who has observed how the once-great state has deteriorated. Trump criticized Governor Gavin Newsom and state Democrats for presiding over mass exodus, rising crime, and the nation&#8217;s highest tax burden.<\/p>\n<p>Following the June 2 primary, Hilton took aim at California&#8217;s slow vote-counting process, suggesting that the state&#8217;s inability to tally ballots efficiently has become an international embarrassment.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DecisionDeskHQ\/status\/2064145059839152635\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Nearly a week after the election, Hilton posted on X criticizing Governor Newsom&#8217;s absence from addressing the counting delays. He questioned where Newsom was during what he termed the state&#8217;s election shambles, noting the governor rejected his proposal to accelerate the process. Hilton argued that Californians deserve better than a disengaged, do-nothing governor and called for change.<\/p>\n<p>As reported by <em>Breitbart News<\/em>, The Hill noted that Becerra benefited from his statewide campaign experience and his tenure in the Biden administration. He was also characterized as having appeal among Latino voters.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SteveHiltonx\/status\/2063842693646828014\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:right\"><em>With information from <a href=\"https:\/\/breitbart.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Breitbart News<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Republican Steve Hilton will face Democrat Xavier Becerra in California&#8217;s gubernatorial race after finishing second in the primary with 25.10 percent of votes to Becerra&#8217;s 27.67 percent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":47,"featured_media":5369,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[651,196,4376,414,2582,2580],"nfg_topic":[135],"class_list":["post-5370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-california","tag-donald-trump","tag-gubernatorial-race","tag-republican-party","tag-steve-hilton","tag-xavier-becerra","nfg_topic-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5370","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/47"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5370"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5370\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5386,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5370\/revisions\/5386"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5370"},{"taxonomy":"nfg_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/nfg_topic?post=5370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}