{"id":20690,"date":"2026-03-28T20:22:13","date_gmt":"2026-03-28T20:22:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/what-would-it-take-for-republicans-to-win-californias-gubernatorial-race\/"},"modified":"2026-03-28T20:22:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-28T20:22:13","slug":"what-would-it-take-for-republicans-to-win-californias-gubernatorial-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/what-would-it-take-for-republicans-to-win-californias-gubernatorial-race\/","title":{"rendered":"What would it take for Republicans to win California&#8217;s gubernatorial race?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>California&#8217;s 2026 gubernatorial primary presents a challenge for Republicans to exploit the state&#8217;s top-two system, as they must become less electable in the general election to win the primary&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/opinion\/campaign\/5804476-california-republican-top-two-strategy\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>California&#8217;s 2026 gubernatorial primary presents a challenge for Republicans to exploit the state&#8217;s top-two system, as they must become less electable in the general election to win the primary&#8230;Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20691,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20690","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\/20690","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=20690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20690\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}