{"id":105339,"date":"2026-01-31T11:46:40","date_gmt":"2026-01-31T11:46:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/31\/can-a-centrist-democrat-win-the-governors-race\/"},"modified":"2026-01-31T11:46:40","modified_gmt":"2026-01-31T11:46:40","slug":"can-a-centrist-democrat-win-the-governors-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/31\/can-a-centrist-democrat-win-the-governors-race\/","title":{"rendered":"Can a Centrist Democrat Win the Governor&#8217;s Race?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">With more than half a dozen Democrats already running for governor, San Jos\u00e9 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kqed.org\/news\/12071306\/san-jose-mayor-matt-mahan-announces-run-for-california-governor\">Mayor Matt Mahan<\/a> added his name to the field this week. Scott, Marisa and Guy discuss whether the centrist Silicon Valley Democrat and outspoken critic of Gov. Gavin Newsom\u2019s social media tactics can break through an already competitive race. They also dig into<\/span>\u00a0an effort in Sacramento to make it easier for residents to sue U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents who use excessive force.<\/p>\n<p><span data-slate-node=\"text\"><span class=\"sc-dhKdcB cgUUbz\" data-slate-leaf=\"true\">Check out\u00a0<\/span><\/span><a class=\"e-91036-text-link e-91036-baseline e-91036-overflow-wrap-anywhere encore-internal-color-text-announcement e-91036-text-link--use-focus sc-cwHptR fShHsZ\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kqed.org\/newsletters\/political-breakdown\" data-encore-id=\"textLink\" data-slate-node=\"element\" data-slate-inline=\"true\">\u2060<span data-slate-node=\"text\"><span class=\"sc-dhKdcB cgUUbz\" data-slate-leaf=\"true\">\u2060Political Breakdown\u2019s weekly newsletter\u2060<\/span><\/span>\u2060<\/a><span data-slate-node=\"text\"><span class=\"sc-dhKdcB cgUUbz\" data-slate-leaf=\"true\">, delivered straight to your inbox.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/news\/2026\/01\/30\/can-a-centrist-democrat-win-the-governors-race\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With more than half a dozen Democrats already running for governor, San Jos\u00e9 Mayor Matt Mahan added his name to the field this week. Scott,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":105340,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[154,183],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-105339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education","category-spotlight"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105339\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/105340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}