Defiant low-polling California Democrats are refusing to exit the crowded race for governor — even after party chair Rusty Hicks and Gavin Newsom himself told them to drop their longshot bids for the ...

Despite a plea by the head of their state party for non-viable Democratic candidates running for governor to drop out now, none of the nine better-known Democrats in the race had suspended their ...

A late-hour attempt by California’s top Democratic official to thin out the party’s crowded field for governor emphatically flopped, leaving the contest virtually unchanged and Democrats vexed over ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A late-hour attempt by California’s top Democratic official to thin out the party’s crowded field for governor emphatically flopped, leaving the contest virtually unchanged and ...