California Republican gubernatorial candidate Steve Hilton has issued an impassioned plea to the leaders of California’s oil and gas industry — urging them to “not give up” on the state. The letter, sent Tuesday to the Golden State’s largest oil companies and trade groups,

"I am the antithesis to California state government because I am going to take a nuclear bomb into that building and absolutely destroy everything that they do to us behind closed doors," Chad Bianco

Anxious about a Republican winning the governor's race, the California Democratic Party plans to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars polling voters in an effort to shrink the sprawling field of candidates running to replace termed-out Gov.

Sergey Brin, the billionaire co-founder of Google, is emerging as a major financier in California’s gubernatorial race, throwing his weight behind competing candidates just months after moving his primary residence out of the state.

Brin gave to a Republican candidate and backed pro‑housing ballot efforts. Tech money is hedging bets in California’s 2026 race.