Xavier Becerra walked into CNN’s Burbank studio Wednesday night as the heavy favorite to be California’s next governor. He walked out the same way. But anyone expecting the debate to demonstrate why the state’s former attorney general and Biden Cabinet secretary holds such a commanding lead in the race was disappointed.

Xavier Becerra, a cabinet secretary in the Biden administration, and Steve Hilton, a former Fox News host, are vying to lead the country’s most populous state and one of the world’s largest economies.

Roxanne Hoge, chair of the LA County GOP and Pomona politics professor Sara Sadhwani break down the key takeaways from the California gubernatorial debate between Xavier Becerra and Steve Hilton. Tom Wait reports.

Becerra and Hilton sparred over housing, education and AI in their first debate since the primary. Here are five key takeaways.

“People actually want to be in California and in L.A. particularly, and so I think we don’t have to go crazy,” says gubernatorial candidate Steve Hilton on the need for greater film and TV tax incentives in the Golden State and from the federal government.

Becerra and Hilton face off in a CNN debate as they vie to become California's next governor.

One of Donald Trump’s fiercest TV defenders got into a heated clash with a CNN host over the fallout of the president’s war with Iran. Scott Jennings, 48, was discussing the price of diesel with other panelists when Abby Phillip,

Debates matter. This is not because the candidate declared the winner by the media goes on to win the election: Hillary Clinton and Kamala Harris were widely viewed as “winning” their debates with Donald Trump,

The major candidates running to be Arizona’s top election officer square off in their final TV debate before the November midterm elections.