If Democrats around the nation have a problem with Maine’s Democratic nominee for the U.S. Senate, Maine’s Democratic voters certainly do not seem to, as discussed on today’s BradCast along with the latest primary election results from five different states and much more. [Audio to full show follows this summary…] Among our stories on today’s […]
Investigations into fatal shootings by California police now take so long that officers often can’t be decertified or prosecuted.
Insurgents are defeating establishment candidates across the country. But bad election laws and Trumpian interventions could frustrate these trends.
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He said it wouldn’t cost taxpayers a single dime! He never said it wouldn’t cost them 500,000,000,000 dimes! (That’s $50,000 billion, which seems to be what it is costing all of us, so far.) On today’s BradCast, it’s back to the ballroom…and the slush fund and the IRS immunity, among the rest of the unprecedented […]
It’s a quiet Tuesday morning in Sacramento. On any given weekday this past year, the City of Trees is normally bustling with state workers heading to their offices, construction workers hammering away at the new Capitol Annex, or City Parking Enforcement Officer Grant Nakamura breaking his previous record of having handed out 22,000 parking
tickets in 2025.
But, with last week’s primary results…
Today on The BradCast: Election coverage for a change! Of tomorrow’s primary elections in four states and on the pretend “controversy” about several primary elections from last week that are still being tallied up. [Audio to show follows below this summary.] FIRST UP… We get you caught up with the latest news on the U.S. […]
California Republican gubernatorial candidate Steve Hilton advanced in the state's gubernatorial race and will compete against former Biden administration Secretary of Health and Human Services Xavier Becerra.
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Democrats avoided the worst outcome in the California governor’s race. While it will take several more days for the state’s mail-in ballots to be counted, former congressman, California attorney general, and U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra will finish among the top two candidates and therefore advance to the general election. What’s not yet clear is whether Republican…
Tom Steyer leads the California gubernatorial race at Stanford, with over 50% of the votes.
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Two GOP members lead in the District 40 race, seen as key to the Democratic Party’s strategy to win control of the House of Representatives
Tuesday’s results—some not yet final—bode well for the fall.
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A victory for the Democrat Xavier Becerra in November would signal continuity in the confrontational approach toward Trump. A win for Republican Steve Hilton would mark a shift toward a conservative agenda
Xavier Becerra and Steve Hilton are leading the race for California governor in early returns, as they seek to advance to a November runoff, while Tom Steyer trailed in third place. It may take days before the top two finishers in the primary are known. Becerra, a former health secretary in the Biden administration, had […]
Former Fox News host Steve Hilton, a Republican, and former Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra, a Democrat, led in initial returns in the race for California governor. According to the results, per the AP, the two candidates were nearly tied, with each drawing about 26% of the vote, with about half of the […]
California voters will go to the polls Tuesday to select which candidates will face off in November’s midterm elections, led by the races for governor and Los Angeles mayor. Hollywood has showered candidates with contributions and fundraising events, as is typical, but the difference this cycle has been on the focus contenders have paid to […]
We’re back after a week off from The BradCast, with a lot to catch up with, including some interesting observations over our week away. [Audio to full show follows this summary.] The week away from the daily grind of the show was instructive. The helicopter view of events — while not looking at them too […]
Progressive economics has swept the Democratic base, but the jungle primary has kept it from emerging in force in this crucial contest.
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Saturday on "The Alex Marlow Show," former Fox News commentator and California Republican gubernatorial hopeful Steve Hilton said former Biden Cabinet Secretary Xavier Becerra, one of his opponents, pushed migrant kids "into the arms of child sex traffickers."
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The question speaks to how in the Democratic Party, there is no price paid for the inability to govern.
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"I’m totally in favor of trans athletes in high school," he said. Also, here is where the other California candidates stand.
Leading in the polls to be the next governor or California, former U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Xavier Becerra is holding to the physician oath of “do no harm,” at least when it comes to his plans to preserve and grow production in the home of Hollywood. “I will defend what has been […]
Xavier Becerra, the leading Democrat in the race for California governor, on Friday called for a summit of studio, labor and tech leaders to address the sharp drop in Hollywood jobs. Becerra became the latest candidate to offer a proposal to revive the entertainment industry, which has lost 51,000 production jobs in the last three […]
NC families with disabled children press lawmakers to maintain funding as federal Medicaid cuts loom; Ex-residents of Chicago apartment building targeted in massive immigration raid seek millions in damages
On today’s BradCast: Maybe the $1.8 billion slush fund for felons was the final straw. Still too early to know for sure. But, between that, the billion dollar ballroom and his recent electoral victories against fellow Republicans, members of his own party in Congress couldn’t run fast enough enough to the exits on Thursday for […]
Even as Mark Zuckerberg is now funding a pro-Becerra PAC, Steyer lacks the only two endorsements that could actually help him.
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California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) shared that there was a "break the glass scenario" in order to ensure that Democrats running for governor in the state move forward in the race.
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California’s Republican Party is so weak that no Republican has won statewide office there in 20 years. Yet there’s some danger this fall that the Golden State—where nearly twice as many voters register Democratic as Republican—will elect a Republican governor. It’s even conceivable that the general election will be a contest between two MAGA Republican gubernatorial candidates. Blame…
When was the last time you thought about Joe Biden? If the answer is “recently,” that’s probably a sign that you should consider taking up a hobby or joining a club—anything, really, that doesn’t involve politics.
An irrelevancy from the moment he belatedly ended his campaign in July 2024, the former president has kept a low profile since leaving the White House. And for good reason. His…
This is a lightly edited transcript of the May 6 edition of Right Now With Perry Bacon. You can watch the video here or by following this show on YouTube or Substack.
Perry Bacon: I’m Perry Bacon, the host of the The New Republic show Right Now. We have a great guest who’s really up early in the morning. This is David Dayen. He’s the executive editor of The American Prospect ,…
On Tuesday’s “CNN NewsNight,” CNN Political Commentator Xochitl Hinojosa, who served as Director of the DOJ Office of Public Affairs during the Biden administration, said that she doesn’t trust California gubernatorial candidate former HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra (D) to stand
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