Will Steve Hilton and Spencer Pratt Emerge From California's Jungle Primary?
WSJ Opinion: Potomac Watch
The Wall Street Journal
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🗓️ 3 June 2026
⏱️ 25 minutes
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| 0:32.8 | From the opinion pages of the Wall Street Journal, this is Potomac Watch. |
| 0:41.0 | After primary voters go to the polls in six states Tuesday, notably California, New Jersey, and Iowa, which candidates came out on top? |
| 0:48.1 | What can we learn about the mood of the electorate in 2026? Is there hope yet maybe, just maybe, for better leadership in the great state of |
| 0:56.5 | California? Welcome, I'm Kyle Peterson with the Wall Street Journal. We're joined today by my |
| 1:02.3 | colleagues on the WSJ's opinion pages, columnist Alicia Finley and Matt Contenetti, who is always |
| 1:09.1 | worth reading in the journal's free expression newsletter. |
| 1:13.0 | Plenty of interesting results from Tuesday's primaries, but let's start at the top of the ticket in California, |
| 1:18.1 | the race to replace Governor Gavin Newsom, who will soon be riding off into the sunset, probably toward 2028. |
| 1:24.8 | And as a reminder, California has an unusual election system in a couple of ways. |
| 1:29.2 | First, this all-candidate jungle primary that sometimes results in two Democrats facing off |
| 1:35.1 | against each other in November. And second, mail ballots postmarked on time are valid if they |
| 1:41.7 | arrive a week later. And then at that point, the processing begins. So there is |
| 1:46.3 | often a heavy delay in reporting final winners in California. But here are the results in the |
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