Former Democratic President Barack Obama endorsed fellow Democrat Gavin Newsom for governor of California on Wednesday and praised him for being “the first to recognize the right to marry who you love” when he briefly legalized gay marriage in 2004, during his time as mayor of San Francisco.
A newly-released poll from the Public Policy Institute of California (PPIC) has found that over half (56%) of likely registered voters in the Golden State say a political candidate’s positions on environmental issues will be very important in determining their vote in the upcoming governor’s race.
California’s Lieutenant Governor Gavin Newsom (D), who is competing against Republican John Cox to become California’s next governor, reportedly said he regrets implementing a policy while he was mayor of San Francisco that required law enforcement officers to report juvenile illegal aliens who were charged with committing violent crimes to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
Georgia Secretary of State Brian Kemp has pulled ahead of his opponent in the Republican gubernatorial primary election on Tuesday after President Donald Trump endorsed him last week.
President Donald Trump on Wednesday endorsed Georgia Secretary of State Brian Kemp for the state’s Republican race for governor.
A newly released USC Dornsife/Los Angeles Times poll has found that Democratic Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom is leading Republican John Cox by a wide margin in the race for governor.
Gavin Newsom threw in with Nancy Pelosi. He put her on the November ballot — and not just in her San Francisco district.
California Gov. Jerry Brown endorsed Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom to take over his job after this year in a Democratic Party “unity” ceremony in Sacramento on Wednesday.
Former Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa spent almost $35 million in the California primary to come in third for governor behind Republican businessman and first-time candidate John Cox, who spent just $6.6 million.
President Donald Trump tweeted several endorsements Tuesday morning for the California primary, including Republican businessman John Cox for governor.
Republican businessman John Cox has strengthened his second-place position in the race for California governor, making him likely to qualify for the general election against Democrat Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom after the June 5 primary, according to a new poll.
Lieutenant Governor Gavin Newsom is offering some unusual advice to California voters in the June 5 primary: support the leading Republican candidate, businessman John Cox, rather than the other Democratic contender, former Los Angeles mayor Antonio Villaraigosa.
President Donald Trump on Monday once again voiced his support for Republican candidate for California governor John Cox.
Billionaire Meg Whitman, who was the Republican nominee for California governor in 2010 and lost to Jerry Brown, is backing Democrat Antonio Villaraigosa for governor in 2018.
A new poll has confirmed that Republican businessman John Cox is in second place in the race for California governor, meaning that he has a good chance of qualifying for the general election ballot in November.
Critics say that an advertisement supporting Democrat gubernatorial candidate Antonio Villaraigosa is falsely claiming that former President Barack Obama endorsed his campaign.
Republican businessman John Cox is in a dead heat for second place with former Los Angeles mayor Antonio Villaraigosa in the race for California governor, with less than two weeks to go before the June 5 primary.
The California Republican Party will not be backing one single candidate in the race for governor this year, after neither of the two frontrunners managed to win 60% of the delegates’ votes at the party convention in San Diego over the weekend.
A group of prominent African American leaders endorsed former Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa for governor Thursday, boosting a crucial demographic to the Democratic candidates voting bloc.
Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom, the Democrat who is the frontrunner in the race to become California’s next governor, continues to lead the crowded field of candidates in fundraising, having raised approximately $4.6 million in this most recent filing period.
Two Republicans, businessman John Cox and Assemblyman Travis Allen (R-Huntington Beach), have now passed former Los Angeles mayor Antonio Villaraigosa in the race for California governor, according to a new poll.
Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom, the frontrunner to be California’s next governor, reportedly did not go to rehab for alcoholism in 2007, which he blamed for an affair he had that ended his first marriage to Fox News anchor Kimberly Guilfoyle.
The increasingly expensive and crowded California governor’s race has turned into a proxy war between the Golden State’s teachers’ unions and activists who back charter schools.
State Rep. Jeanne Ives (R-Wheaton) conceded the gubernatorial primary to incumbent Republican Governor Bruce Rauner just after 10:30 p.m. Central time– after coming tantalizingly close to an upset victory.
Jeanne Ives, on the home stretch of a hard-fought Republican primary, describes her gubernatorial campaign in Illinois as proof that conservatives can hold “lame, fake Republicans” like Gov. Bruce Rauner (R-IL) accountable.
State Representative Jeanne Ives (R-Wheaton) is hoping to pull off an upset Tuesday against incumbent Republican governor Bruce Rauner, who is clinging to a narrow lead in the polls.
Conservative insurgent State Representative Jeanne Ives (R-Wheaton) says she has nearly caught incumbent Gov. Bruce Rauner, just days before the Republican primary on Tuesday.
Amanda Renteria, Hillary Clinton’s national political director in the 2016 presidential race, insists that she is not a tool for fellow Democratic candidate Antonio Villaraigosa.
Amanda Renteria, Hillary Clinton’s national political director for her 2016 presidential campaign, entered the Democrat-heavy gubernatorial race in California on Wednesday.
Susan B. Anthony List, a national pro-life advocacy group, has endorsed gubernatorial challenger Jeanne Ives in the upcoming Illinois GOP primary race, citing sitting Republican Governor Bruce Rauner’s support of a law mandating taxpayer-funded abortion in the state.
Jeanne Ives is challenging the go-along-to-get-along caucus, bringing life back to the race and hope back to a state that has been failed by the establishment of both parties and needs bold leadership.
Billionaire J.B. Pritzker, the leading Democrat candidate for governor in Illinois, apologized Tuesday for comments he made in 2008 as he joked about Barack Obama’s “God d*mn America” scandal earlier that year.
Illinois Republican State Representative Jeanne Ives and sitting Illinois GOP Governor Bruce Rauner met for the first time Monday as Rauner fights to win re-election but by many accounts the meeting ended in favor of the challenger.
Chicago Tribune columnist John Kass sat in on his newspaper’s interview of the two candidates running for Illinois governor in the Republican primary — incumbent Gov. Bruce Rauner and conservative State Rep. Jeanne Ives (R-Wheaton) — and judged Ives the clear winner.
The Republican National Committee (RNC) already has its eye on the 2018 midterm elections—as well as some gubernatorial races this year—a spokesman told Breitbart News Saturday on SiriusXM 125 the Patriot Channel this weekend.
