• 
• Mike Madrid @madrid_mike

Xavier Becerra social media game is stepping it up leaning into #BecerraEra hashtag

A planned Saturday rally in LA has reportedly tripled in size since Tuesday to over 1000 people.

I’ve decided to fly down to cover it for @TheLatino_Vote Podcast and see if it’s real

• 5:53 PM · Apr 17, 2026

15 minutes ago, Pancho said:

• 
• Mike Madrid @madrid_mike

Xavier Becerra social media game is stepping it up leaning into #BecerraEra hashtag

A planned Saturday rally in LA has reportedly tripled in size since Tuesday to over 1000 people.

I’ve decided to fly down to cover it for @TheLatino_Vote Podcast and see if it’s real

• 5:53 PM · Apr 17, 2026

I wonder what is driving him in the polls? Is it name recognition from Los Angelinos finally realizing there is an election in June in the midst of the scandal? If so, why is Villaraigosa dithering?

Ttrending in the right direction

• 
• InteractivePolls @IAPolls2022

CALIFORNIA POLL - Governor (top 2 advance)

🟥 Hilton: 20% (-2)

🟦 Becerra: 15% (+11)

🟦 Steyer: 15% (+3)

🟥 Bianco: 14% (+1)

🟦 Porter: 13% (+2)

🟦 Mahan: 6% (+1)

🟦 Villaraigosa: 3% (+1)

🟦 Yee: 2% (=)

🟦 Thurmond: 2% (=)

(+/- change vs 4/1-6)

——

(The survey, commissioned by

• 1:21 PM · Apr 20, 2026

5 hours ago, Pancho said:

Ttrending in the right direction

• 
• InteractivePolls @IAPolls2022

CALIFORNIA POLL - Governor (top 2 advance)

🟥 Hilton: 20% (-2)

🟦 Becerra: 15% (+11)

🟦 Steyer: 15% (+3)

🟥 Bianco: 14% (+1)

🟦 Porter: 13% (+2)

🟦 Mahan: 6% (+1)

🟦 Villaraigosa: 3% (+1)

🟦 Yee: 2% (=)

🟦 Thurmond: 2% (=)

(+/- change vs 4/1-6)

——

(The survey, commissioned by

• 1:21 PM · Apr 20, 2026

Betty Yee dropped out but no endorsement yet. I think her endorsement would actually be worth more than just the 2% she was polling.

Edited April 20Apr 20 by shakahorn

2 minutes ago, shakahorn said:

Betty Yee dropped out but no endorsement yet. I think her endorsement would actually be worth more than just the 2% she was polling.

She's endorsing NOT voting for porter. She hates porter.

4 minutes ago, Gil Bang said:

She's endorsing NOT voting for porter. She hates porter.

Her exit interview was hilarious, I wonder how she really feels?

• 
• Nikki Laurenzo @NikkiLaurenzo

BREAKING: Democrat Betty Yee is suspending her campaign for California governor.

I spoke with her prior to her announcement. She says she made the decision on her own, adding when it came to polling and resources “those things weren’t coming together.”

She isn’t endorsing

• 6:08 PM · Apr 20, 2026

also:

• 
• Ashley Zavala @ZavalaA

Just In:

Poll paid for by California Democratic Party shows two Republicans still lead race for Governor.

Democrats Tom Steyer and Xavier Becerra are tied at 13%

Party Chair Rusty Hicks tells reporters there’s still too many Dems in the race.

• 8:08 PM · Apr 20, 2026

so california is gonna have a republican governor? sounds about right for this timeline.

My California Voters Information Guide came in the mail yesterday.

Included our candidate statements from everyone on the ballot. A couple of them are interesting

Edited April 21Apr 21 by Gil Bang

• 
• Polymarket @Polymarket

JUST IN: Xavier Becerra is now officially the frontrunner to win the California governor's race, overtaking Tom Steyer.

• 4:21 PM · Apr 21, 2026

The lunacy behind Chad Bianco and the seizure of ballots.

CalMatters

How 2 fringe groups and a friendly judge helped pull off...

Emails obtained by CalMatters trace the development of a years-long case that ultimately led to the unprecedented seizure of 650,000 ballots.

Becerra is picking up steam.

I thought it was interesting that Rep. Robert Garcia endorsed Porter yesterday. That is a dying campaign, and I’m not sure what the fuck he’s doing.

Becerra had a rally yesterday or the day before where they only expected 200 but ended up with 2000 reservations. He’s getting a lot of grassroots help online and raised a lot of cash the other day.

I think he needs another ad or two though. Steyer is out with new ads that can entice a voter if they aren’t careful. Porter has some new ads out as well.

Bianco is such a cunt.

Welp…

The Becerra Era might be short lived and we are staring down the barrel of a Tom James Steyer governorship.

His answers at last nights debate = not great.

34 minutes ago, Pancho said:

Welp…

The Becerra Era might be short lived and we are staring down the barrel of a Tom James Steyer governorship.

His answers at last nights debate = not great.

I'm surprised no one has talked about this stuff:

2 hours ago, Pancho said:

Welp…

The Becerra Era might be short lived and we are staring down the barrel of a Tom James Steyer governorship.

His answers at last nights debate = not great.

I thought he seemed much more prepared than his incoherent tv interview he gave last week. Looked much more comfortable and got the clips he wanted for ads.

1 hour ago, Schulz2.0 said:

I'm surprised no one has talked about this stuff:

Villaraigosa’s campaign is acting like it is the scandal of our time.

26 minutes ago, We’reTexas said:

I thought he seemed much more prepared than his incoherent tv interview he gave last week. Looked much more comfortable and got the clips he wanted for ads.

Villaraigosa’s campaign is acting like it is the scandal of our time.

I’ll wait to see what the post debate polls look like, but it seems like the person who may benefit the most from the debate was Mahan.

26 minutes ago, Pancho said:

I’ll wait to see what the post debate polls look like, but it seems like the person who may benefit the most from the debate was Mahan.

I agree insofar as the main question he had to answer was “So, you’re probably wondering who the fuck I am.”

I lol’ed at this, but tbf it probably applies to the average CA Democratic voter:

• 
• Giacomo Volpe 🌹🤝🌐 @_giacomo_volpe_

Average Becerra voter is a 70yo home equity millionaire who pays $19/mo in property tax who thinks the biggest political problems facing the state are lack of parking spaces and insufficient taxpayer subsidy for their property insurance

• 4:42 AM · Apr 23, 2026

• 
• Jordan Grimes (on Bluesky @cafedujord) @cafedujord · Apr 23, 2026

I was okay with Becerra until hearing his answers at the debate tonight. Freezing home insurance rates is quite possibly the worst policy you could pursue in California right now. What the fuck.

Oh hey (this is a Bay Area station, so makes sense).

• 
• First To Hear It @firsttohearit

POLL ALERT: A KRON4 poll of the #CAGOV race finds San Jose Mayor Matt Mahan ROCKETING into the lead after last night's debate.

🟦Matt Mahan: 46%

🟥Steve Hilton: 15%

🟦Tom Steyer: 12%

🟦Xavier Becerra: 11%

🟦Katie Porter: 8%

🟥Chad Bianco: 6%

⬜Undecided: 2%

• 7:42 PM · Apr 23, 2026

the field is terrible. i'm not excited about a billionaire but steyer has the best housing policy.

19 minutes ago, Texas Flood said:

the field is terrible. i'm not excited about a billionaire but steyer has the best housing policy.

His team definitely went from “ban institutional investor slopulism” to putting together a smart-sounding platform and strong messaging, but I’m skeptical the boomer environmentalist who has spent so much effort courting The Groups will follow through. He wrote a substack supporting SB 79 - great! - but he had nothing, despite his insinuations, to with its enactment.

Mahan did not openly support SB 79 either (and opposed SB 9 way back), which is a huge mark against him, but to be fair that puts him on the more supportive end of local elected officials (looking at you LA). But he has been on the YIMBY train for years and is the most pragmatic candidate on housing.

Porter, believe it or not, has the strongest YIMBY platform.

53 minutes ago, We’reTexas said:

His team definitely went from “ban institutional investor slopulism” to putting together a smart-sounding platform and strong messaging, but I’m skeptical the boomer environmentalist who has spent so much effort courting The Groups will follow through. He wrote a substack supporting SB 79 - great! - but he had nothing, despite his insinuations, to with its enactment.

Mahan did not openly support SB 79 either (and opposed SB 9 way back), which is a huge mark against him, but to be fair that puts him on the more supportive end of local elected officials (looking at you LA). But he has been on the YIMBY train for years and is the most pragmatic candidate on housing.

Porter, believe it or not, has the strongest YIMBY platform.

mahan is silicon valley shill. i would take steyer over those billionaires.

great that porter has come around from being a progressive nimby.

On 4/20/2026 at 3:36 PM, mchookem said:

so california is gonna have a republican governor? sounds about right for this timeline.

No that's not going to happen. But some bullshit is going to happen. California is bought by silicon valley. Every Democrat from California is suspect. I mean...still better than any Republican from any state.

1 hour ago, Texas Flood said:

mahan is silicon valley shill. i would take steyer over those billionaires.

great that porter has come around from being a progressive nimby.

I definitely think the Mahan camp picked the likely-fatal decision to jump in late and not spend money until the race really heated up, in that it allowed the “tech bro lackey” angle to pile up on him (having dorks like Garry Tan being his loudest supporters only made it worse).

I suspect there was a major miscalculation that the good-governance liberalism sentiment that swept the Bay Area held throughout the state and his campaign would naturally gain steam, but it’s big state and that was clearly not the case.

Edit: just saw this. Of all the remaining candidates, Becerra is by the least-serious candidate for housing and isn’t even bothering to try.

• 
• The Housing Action Coalition @HACdotorg

JUST CONFIRMED: @tomsteyer, @katieporterca & @mattmahansj will tackle the future of housing at our May 8 CA Gubernatorial Candidates Housing Forum.

Moderated by @ezraklein, broadcast on @nytopinion and The Ezra Klein Show.

🎟️ Tickets are going fast! Get yours today →

• 9:43 PM · Apr 23, 2026

Edited April 24Apr 24 by We’reTexas

I'm in BFE Cali and it's all Steyer all the time with advertising. Mahan is boring, Porter killed her political career a while back, and Becerra doesn't even come up. I think we're going to get Steyer and Hilton in the runoff.

27 minutes ago, Hefeweizen said:

I'm in BFE Cali and it's all Steyer all the time with advertising. Mahan is boring, Porter killed her political career a while back, and Becerra doesn't even come up. I think we're going to get Steyer and Hilton in the runoff.

as long as that cunt Bianco is out, I'm fine with it.

30 minutes ago, Hefeweizen said:

I'm in BFE Cali and it's all Steyer all the time with advertising. Mahan is boring, Porter killed her political career a while back, and Becerra doesn't even come up. I think we're going to get Steyer and Hilton in the runoff.

Ahh Riverside

Mediaite

Eric Swalwell Sent Women ‘Videos of Him Masturbating’ and...

Former Democratic congressman Eric Swalwell was accused by multiple women of sending them sexual messages, including "videos of him masturbating."

27 minutes ago, C-Man said:

Mediaite

Eric Swalwell Sent Women ‘Videos of Him Masturbating’ and...

Former Democratic congressman Eric Swalwell was accused by multiple women of sending them sexual messages, including "videos of him masturbating."

Man....when you get on a campaign spam text list, you never know WHAT you're gonna get.

I'm not victim shaming but if I was one of those women as soon as I got that I would've sent it to pornhub, the NYT and reddit.

6 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

Man....when you get on a campaign spam text list, you never know WHAT you're gonna get.

I'd send those out and say "If you want this to stop, donate to...."

2 minutes ago, Pescado_Rojo said:

I'd send those out and say "If you want this to stop, donate to...."

"What kind of response did you get?"

"475 donations.....and 3 good leads for Saturday night."

1 hour ago, Post Oak said:

I'm not victim shaming but if I was one of those women as soon as I got that I would've sent it to pornhub, the NYT and reddit.

and get sent to jail for revenge porn? just send it to our true news media, TMZ

I never cared much for him. His MAGA trolling was sometimes clever. But goddamn the hubris to think none of his behavior would catch up to him. How do you run for a high profile office and think this doesn't get revealed.

5 hours ago, C-Man said:

Mediaite

Eric Swalwell Sent Women ‘Videos of Him Masturbating’ and...

Former Democratic congressman Eric Swalwell was accused by multiple women of sending them sexual messages, including "videos of him masturbating."

Y'all are slippin'.

5 minutes ago, Orale said:

I never cared much for him. His MAGA trolling was sometimes clever. But goddamn the hubris to think none of his behavior would catch up to him. How do you run for a high profile office and think this doesn't get revealed.

Rule 1 - a hard dick has no conscience.

Rule 2 - it doesn't have much of an IQ, either.

They held a gov debate last night, and Jesus Christ it was a shit show. Kaitlin Collin’s is terrible as a debate moderator.

This was a good comeback by Porter, though:

• 
• Acyn @Acyn

Hilton: That's how we should be growing our economy, not by illegal immigration.

Porter: I mean, given that you're an immigrant and you added to our population and we're all having to live with the consequences of that decision.

• 1:41 AM · May 6, 2026

On 5/4/2026 at 10:38 AM, Brisketexan said:

Man....when you get on a campaign spam text list, you never know WHAT you're gonna get.

Swalwell: “Ohhhhhhh. A SPAM text list. I read that differently. My bad.”

How did Porter do overall in the governor debate?

I've always felt that she would make a poor executive branch leader because she lacks charisma and few would want to follow her. I think she makes a great legislator and probably could be a fantastic Chief of Staff for a governor or President. Put her in the Chief of Staff in the White House, and she would have the President and Exec branch running smooth. But her aspirations look to be higher and I don't see her reaching the levels she wants.

I expect a reply that a qualified, non-charismatic person is better than a charismatic buffoon. I don't disagree but out of 300m people (or 40m for CA) we should be able to find someone that checks all of the boxes.

On 5/4/2026 at 8:10 AM, C-Man said:

Mediaite

Eric Swalwell Sent Women ‘Videos of Him Masturbating’ and...

Former Democratic congressman Eric Swalwell was accused by multiple women of sending them sexual messages, including "videos of him masturbating."

On 5/6/2026 at 10:18 AM, Nice Guy Eddie said:

How did Porter do overall in the governor debate?

I've always felt that she would make a poor executive branch leader because she lacks charisma and few would want to follow her. I think she makes a great legislator and probably could be a fantastic Chief of Staff for a governor or President. Put her in the Chief of Staff in the White House, and she would have the President and Exec branch running smooth. But her aspirations look to be higher and I don't see her reaching the levels she wants.

I expect a reply that a qualified, non-charismatic person is better than a charismatic buffoon. I don't disagree but out of 300m people (or 40m for CA) we should be able to find someone that checks all of the boxes.

I agree completely and I've never understood the fandom on here for her for anything more than the lead enforcer/pitbull that she clearly is of whomever is lucky enough to employ her.

I also think it's a sentiment and taste thing because my friend @Pancho upthread thought she had a clapback that met the moment, but all I saw was middle-age corny in a "she thought she ate" kind of way.

Edited May 7May 7 by Vegas64

Actually no, I never said she had a clapback that met the moment. I Thought it was a good reply to Hilton, who is an immigrant himself.

She should have dropped out weeks ago. She still isn’t getting double digits as of today. Same for Villaraigosa

Shuuuuuut the fuck up, Donkey

Edited May 7May 7 by safe sex

Lolol

• 
• Xavier Becerra @XavierBecerra

You have the power to put an end to the Tom Steyer ads.

• 1:02 AM · May 6, 2026

2 hours ago, safe sex said:

Shuuuuuut the fuck up, Donkey

You are giving

3 hours ago, Pancho said:

Actually no, I never said she had a clapback that met the moment. I Thought it was a good reply to Hilton, who is an immigrant himself.

She should have dropped out weeks ago. She still isn’t getting double digits as of today. Same for Villaraigosa

You said it was a good comeback. It tried so hard to be a good comeback that it was maximum cringe which made it a pretty awkward moment for the audience and made it an "ohh" comeback. IYKYK.

Anyways, I think Hilton and Porter are way more alike than they are different which is probably why they flirt so clumsily in debates.

Ezra Klein moderating a gubernatorial housing forum right now. Steyer has done some impressive work to bring himself up to speed, I will admit. Mahan was born for this. Becerra remains completely incoherent, not sure how that’s even possible at this point.

Edit: watching more closely, Katie Porter was straight fire. A progressive telling the unions to go fuck themselves and calling out California Labor Federation leader Lorena Gonzalez by name? I was erect.

Edited May 9May 9 by We’reTexas

1 hour ago, We’reTexas said:

Ezra Klein moderating a gubernatorial housing forum right now. Steyer has done some impressive work to bring himself up to speed, I will admit. Mahan was born for this. Becerra remains completely incoherent, not sure how that’s even possible at this point.

Fuck you Becerra. This should be dunking on a 7 foot rim, and you can't do it. We're going to end up with Steyer

I'm resigned to Steyer, whatever. It's the least of our problems.

2 minutes ago, Hefeweizen said:

I'm resigned to Steyer, whatever. It's the least of our problems.

yeah IDGAF as long as it's not the fox News limey or that fucking cocksucker Bianco.

1 hour ago, We’reTexas said:

Mahan was born picked by peter thiel and palantir for this.

fify