{"id":909513,"date":"2026-05-31T13:14:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-31T18:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/31\/top-candidates-for-california-governor-spar-over-wealth-experience-and-race-in-fiery-debate\/"},"modified":"2026-05-31T13:14:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-31T18:14:08","slug":"top-candidates-for-california-governor-spar-over-wealth-experience-and-race-in-fiery-debate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/31\/top-candidates-for-california-governor-spar-over-wealth-experience-and-race-in-fiery-debate\/","title":{"rendered":"Top candidates for California governor spar over wealth, experience and race in fiery debate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The debate takes place at a critical moment in the turbulent contest to replace termed-out Gov. Gavin Newsom. Ballots will start landing in Californians&#8217; mailboxes in less than two weeks, and voters are split by a crowded field of eight prominent candidates&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/california\/story\/2026-04-22\/as-primary-election-nears-top-candidates-for-california-governor-debate-tonight\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><br \/>\n Seema Mehta, Nicole Nixon<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The debate takes place at a critical moment in the turbulent contest to replace termed-out Gov. Gavin Newsom. Ballots will start landing in Californians&#8217; mailboxes in less than two weeks, and voters are split by a crowded field of eight prominent candidates&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":909514,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[921,297,192],"tags":[5229,5343],"class_list":["post-909513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","category-candidates","category-sports","tag-california","tag-candidates"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/909513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=909513"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/909513\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/909514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=909513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=909513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=909513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}