Watch or listen live @ 6:00 PM tonight to California Politics Now election discussion with state of California gubernatorial candidates
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ONME News will talk with some of the state of California gubernatorial candidates
By ONME News
Tonight, join Julia Ann Dudley Najieb, Brigitte Jones and Cheryl Smith as they host and moderate the California Politics Now Election Forum featuring state of California gubernatorial candidates.
Moderation Protocols: (time starts after the question is asked)
4 min. for introductions
2 min. 30 sec. to answer questions from the news moderators
1 min. to respond to direct rebuttals on name mentions
3 min. for closing remarks
Key topics news hosts will address:
Discussion regarding California’s annual billions-of-dollars, structural budget deficit ($18+)
Affordability: housing and gas at an all-time high for all Californians
Homelessness crisis that continues
Utility rates/AI infusion and electricity overload
The show feed will broadcast live from its ONME studio in Downtown Fresno, Calif. as news hosts review the following candidates:
2026 State of California Governor Candidates
Democratic Party (22)
(10 have withdrawn)
Akinyemi Agbede, mathematician and educator
Mohammad Arif, immigrants organizer
Larry Azevedo, businessman
Xavier Becerra, former U.S. secretary of health and human services (2021–2025) and attorney general of California (2017–2021)[6][1]
Carolina Buhler, UCLA student
Louis De Barraicua, teacher and business owner
Sophia Edum-a-Sam, project manager
Derek Grasty, San Jose school district trustee (2024–present)
Joel Jacob, business owner
Gary Howard Kidgell, building consultant
Matthew Levy, physicist
Matt Mahan, mayor of San Jose (2023–present)
Barack Obama Shaw, business owner
Thunder Parley, software engineer
Katie Porter, former U.S. representative from California's 47th congressional district (2019–2025) and candidate for U.S. Senate in 2024[11]
Raji Rab, pilot and perennial candidate
Satish Rao, UC Berkeley professor
Scott Shields, executive director
Tom Steyer, environmental activist, founder of Farallon Capital and candidate for president in 2020
Tony Thurmond, superintendent of public instruction of California (2019–present)
Antonio Villaraigosa, former mayor of Los Angeles (2005–2013), former speaker of the California State Assembly (1998–2000), and candidate for governor in 2018
Erin Zezulak, consultant
Republican Party (12)
(4 have withdrawn/4 DQ)
James Athans Jr., real estate agent
Chad Bianco, Riverside County Sheriff-Coroner (2019–present)
Patricia De Luca Basualdo, real estate broker
Randeep Dhillon, businessman and farmer
Rafael Hernandez, businessman
Steve Hilton, political commentator and former adviser to UK prime minister David Cameron (2010–2012)
Alicia Olivia Lapp
Leo Naranjo IV, veteran
Tim Nelson, diplomat
Gretha Solórzano, retired nuclear engineer
Leo Zacky, vice president of Zacky Farms and candidate for governor in 2021 and 2022
David Zickefoose, real estate investor
Green Party (1)
Butch Ware, associate professor and Green Party 2024 vice presidential nominee (write-in)
Libertarian Party (1)
(1 withdrawn)
Not on primary ballot
Nicholas Thompson, college student
Peace and Freedom Party (1)
Ramsey Robinson, school social worker
No party preference (23)
Naomi Bar-Lev, musician and writer
Joseph Cabrera, administrator
Elaine Culotti, entrepreneur
LivingForGod AndCountry DeMott, chaplain
Serge Fiankan, real estate broker
Lukasz Adam Filinski
Max Fomin, business owner
Don Grundmann, chiropractor
Jon Henderson, business owner
Lewis Herms
Dawit Kellel
Anne Komarovsk, communications executive
Duane Terrence Loynes Jr., nominee of the American Solidarity Party
Amanda Martin, entrepreneur
Brent Maupin, civil engineer
Daniel Mercuri, author, Republican candidate for governor in 2021 and 2022, and candidate for California's 25th congressional district in 2020
Mauro Alberto Orozco, business owner
Reza Safarnejad, business owner
Sam Sandak, filmmaker
Christine Sarmiento, public health nurse
Frederic Schultz, human rights attorney
Margaret Trowe, hospitality worker
Nancy Young, businesswoman
Not on primary ballot (3)
Leonard Jackson, shipping company CEO
Ryan Tillman, police officer
David Thelen, blogger
Coming up Tomorrow:
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