California Republican Steve Hilton was tracking favorably for a chance to qualify for November’s runoff for governor, but the ex-Fox News star’s fate hangs in the balance of the state’s hundreds of thousands of mail-in ballots.
Hilton was leading the pack as counting continued early Wednesday morning. Former Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra was the top Democratic vote-getter, with billionaire Tom Steyer, running in third place.
But it could take days before a final call is made in the high-stakes race to lead the world’s fourth largest economy.
Although Steyer trailed in early tabulations, some data analysts said it was still
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