Becerra to the Basement: Day 8.
My bet is Democrat Xavier Becerra will stay in the basement until the scheduled September 30th California gubernatorial debate with challenger Republican Steve Hilton.
Xavier Becerra reaches Day 8 since his last verified, in-person public campaign appearance in Long Beach on Labor Day. Even then Becerra did not take questions.
The last time Becerra didn’t duck the media was a month ago. Since then, he has taken a playbook from Biden and Harris and gone to the basement.
Becerra’s campaign had a Friday virtual meet-and-greet with the California Academy of Family Physicians, but it was not a public, in-person campaign appearance. So it does not reset our counter.
I also found no newly announced public Becerra campaign stop for this weekend. His campaign last released a press release in early August.
Currently the campaign does not show any public-events on the calendar.
In fact his campaign has gone dark.
No public appearances, no press releases, no stumping across the state.
Beccera is on auto-pilot.
And that would normally hurt a politician, but this is California and state Democrats don’t care to have a vetted, capable candidate. Just that he or she is a Democrat.
The next appearance we can firmly put on the calendar is the CNN debate in Los Angeles. Becerra had previously said there would be “lots of debates,” but it appears this will be the only debate Becerra is willing to schedule.
Hilton continues to make Becerra’s limited public schedule an issue, and has committed to several debates.
Becerra to the Basement: Day 8.
This report was aided by AI.
