AGP Executive Report
Last update: 8 hours agoGovernor’s Race: Xavier Becerra defeated Steve Hilton, becoming California’s first elected Latino governor in nearly 150 years. He takes office facing a budget shortfall, housing costs and pressure on health care and wildfire insurance. Ballot Measures: Proposition 1, an $11.25 billion affordable-housing bond, is projected to pass. Proposition 40, a proposed one-time tax on billionaires, remained too close to call as early returns showed it trailing; the voter ID measure, Proposition 39, is projected to fail. Election Dispute: The U.S. Supreme Court rejected the Trump administration’s bid to set aside about 20,000 California mail ballots, clearing the way for the count to continue. Los Angeles: The mayor’s race between Karen Bass and Nithya Raman remained razor-thin, with votes still being tallied. Congress: Democrat Richard Pan declared victory over Kevin Kiley in the Sacramento-area 6th District after Kiley conceded.
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