{"id":15268,"date":"2025-11-05T02:20:33","date_gmt":"2025-11-05T02:20:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/alex-padilla-passes-on-california-governor-run-2\/"},"modified":"2025-11-05T02:20:33","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T02:20:33","slug":"alex-padilla-passes-on-california-governor-run-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/alex-padilla-passes-on-california-governor-run-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Alex Padilla passes on California governor run"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. Alex Padilla (D-Calif.) announced Tuesday he will not run for governor in 2026. Speaking from the U.S. Capitol on Tuesday, Padilla said it was &ldquo;with a full heart&rdquo; and &ldquo;more commitment than ever&rdquo; that he was choosing to remain in Congress rather than seek the governor&rsquo;s mansion&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2025\/11\/04\/congress\/alex-padilla-california-governor-00635881\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. Alex Padilla (D-Calif.) announced Tuesday he will not run for governor in 2026. Speaking from the U.S. Capitol on Tuesday, Padilla said it was &ldquo;with a full heart&rdquo; and &ldquo;more commitment than ever&rdquo; that he was choosing to remain in Congress rather than seek the governor&rsquo;s mansion&#8230;Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15268","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=15268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15268\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}