gubernatorial

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An ID isn’t required to register or vote in California elections in which federal offices aren’t contested, such as the 2021 gubernatorial recall.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 5, 2026

“We’ve already seen in the Virginia and New Jersey legislative and gubernatorial elections really large shifts in the Latino vote, 25 points back to the Democratic Party,” Barreto said.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 29, 2026

Newsom’s executive order prohibits gubernatorial appointees “from using any non-public information obtained due to their public service to personally profit or assist another person…in profiting from participation in predictive markets.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 27, 2026

Those elements could very well describe the current gubernatorial race, which, as it happens, is the most wide-open since that volatile campaign a generation ago.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 25, 2026

Hodges’ chief political foe at this time was an outspoken segregationist named I. Beverly Lake, an assistant state attorney general, who, it was rumored, planned to oppose Hodges in the 1956 gubernatorial race.

From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson