{"id":15262,"date":"2025-11-05T02:20:23","date_gmt":"2025-11-05T02:20:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/california-democrat-padilla-says-he-wont-run-for-governor-to-replace-newsom\/"},"modified":"2025-11-05T02:20:23","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T02:20:23","slug":"california-democrat-padilla-says-he-wont-run-for-governor-to-replace-newsom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/california-democrat-padilla-says-he-wont-run-for-governor-to-replace-newsom\/","title":{"rendered":"California Democrat Padilla says he won\u2019t run for governor to replace Newsom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. Alex Padilla (D-Calif.) on Tuesday told reporters he would not run to replace California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D). &ldquo;I am choosing to not run for governor of California next year,&rdquo; Padilla said.  &ldquo;I choose not just to stay in the Senate, I choose to stay in this fight because the Constitution is worth fighting&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/campaign\/5589337-padilla-wont-run-california-governor\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. Alex Padilla (D-Calif.) on Tuesday told reporters he would not run to replace California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D). &ldquo;I am choosing to not run for governor of California next year,&rdquo; Padilla said. &ldquo;I choose not just to stay in the Senate, I choose to stay in this fight because the Constitution is worth fighting&#8230;Read [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15263,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15262\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}