Becerra Leads California Governor Race at 23% in PPIC Poll
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- Xavier Becerra leads a bipartisan pack of California gubernatorial candidates with 23% support in a new Public Policy Institute of California (PPIC) poll released Wednesday.
- The Democrat and former Biden Health and Human Services secretary has widened his lead specifically over other Democrats in the field, per the survey.
- PPIC's poll measures voter preference across the full bipartisan candidate slate, with Becerra at the front of the pack at 23%.
- A Republican candidate also factors into the race, though the article text is truncated before identifying the GOP contender's name or standing.
Why it matters: California's open governor's seat now has a clear Democratic frontrunner in Becerra at 23%, but the bipartisan field leaves the Republican challenger's identity and numbers — the actual general-election test — undefined in this dispatch.
