{"id":63160,"date":"2026-01-20T14:30:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T22:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/poll-gauges-support-for-san-jose-mayor-running-for-governor\/"},"modified":"2026-01-20T14:30:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T22:30:09","slug":"poll-gauges-support-for-san-jose-mayor-running-for-governor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/poll-gauges-support-for-san-jose-mayor-running-for-governor\/","title":{"rendered":"Poll gauges support for San Jose mayor running for governor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amid reports that San Jose Mayor Matt Mahan is considering a run for California governor, someone has launched an exploratory text message poll to gauge public support. The poll \u2014 which runs dozens of questions long \u2014 describes Mahan as a Democrat with a working-class background and tech credentials, according to screenshots obtained by San Jos\u00e9 Spotlight. It adds Mahan jumped into politics and \u201cchallenged\u201d California\u2019s status quo on homelessness by taking affordable housing funds and using them for temporary shelter. The poll said that as governor, Mahan would stand for Democratic values but still be a fiscal hawk. It&hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sanjosespotlight.com\/poll-gauges-support-for-san-jose-mayor-running-for-governor\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a>@San Jose Spotlight<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amid reports that San Jose Mayor Matt Mahan is considering a run for California governor, someone has launched an exploratory text message poll to gauge public support. The poll \u2014 which runs dozens of questions long \u2014 describes Mahan as a Democrat with a working-class background and tech credentials, according to screenshots obtained by San &hellip;<\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":63161,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46,254],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63160\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}