{"id":64997,"date":"2026-04-16T09:30:04","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T16:30:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/internal-poll-puts-matt-mahan-higher-in-ca-governor-contest\/"},"modified":"2026-04-16T09:30:04","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T16:30:04","slug":"internal-poll-puts-matt-mahan-higher-in-ca-governor-contest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/internal-poll-puts-matt-mahan-higher-in-ca-governor-contest\/","title":{"rendered":"Internal poll puts Matt Mahan higher in CA governor contest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>San Jose Mayor Matt Mahan is touting a new optimistic poll in his struggle to leave the back of the pack in the crowded race for California governor. An internal poll of 900 likely primary voters \u2014 100 of whom were Republicans and 800 described by the survey as \u201copen to Democratic candidates\u201d \u2014 says Mahan has floated to third place among Democratic candidates in the June 2 election. Yet the poll shows Mahan is still well behind the remaining frontrunners at 8% favorability, while Republican candidate Steve Hilton saw 25%, billionaire Democrat Tom Steyer got 16% and former Democratic&hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sanjosespotlight.com\/internal-poll-puts-matt-mahan-higher-in-california-governor-contest\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a>@San Jose Spotlight<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>San Jose Mayor Matt Mahan is touting a new optimistic poll in his struggle to leave the back of the pack in the crowded race for California governor. An internal poll of 900 likely primary voters \u2014 100 of whom were Republicans and 800 described by the survey as \u201copen to Democratic candidates\u201d \u2014 says &hellip;<\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":64998,"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-64997","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\/64997","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=64997"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64997\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}