Becerra’s place on the November ballot doesn’t just avert a nightmare scenario for Democrats; it reshapes the emotional terrain of California politics. A party that spent months watching its own heavyweights sit out, its rising stars implode, and its base scatter now rallies around a figure defined less by charisma than by persistence and survival. His victory is an argument for experience in a year dominated by spectacle and scandal.
Winner of California Governor’s Race Announced
