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Republican Steve Hilton, a former Fox News host and adviser to former British Prime Minister David Cameron, will advance to November’s general election in the race to become California’s next governor, CBS News projects.<\/p>\n

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Hilton will\u00a0face off against Democrat Xavier Becerra<\/span>, the former U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary and California attorney general, who mounted a late rise in the race after the exit of former Rep. Eric Swalwell. Becerra overtook Hilton in the vote count on Friday, leading to CBS News projecting that he would advance.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Hilton held off billionaire environmentalist Tom Steyer, a Democrat, for the second spot in California’s top-two primary.\u00a0<\/p>\n

If elected, Hilton would become California’s first Republican governor since Arnold Schwarzenegger left office in 2011. He served as Cameron’s director of Strategy from May 2010 to May 2012. Before moving to California in 2012, Hilton unsuccessfully ran for a U.K. parliamentary seat as a member of the Conservative Party in 2005.<\/p>\n

Hilton has worked to position his candidacy as a potential catalyst for change in California, where Democrats also have a supermajority in the state Legislature. As results began to trickle in on Tuesday night, he framed his early success in returns as a referendum on what California voters want to see going forward.<\/p>\n

“It looks very much like Californians really will have the chance to vote for change in November and take our state in a new direction,” he said on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

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Several high-profile candidates saw their campaigns come to an end shortly after polls closed Tuesday. Former Orange County Rep. Katie Porter, San Jose Mayor Matt Mahan and former Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa each acknowledged they would not become California’s next governor.<\/p>\n

Other notable candidates in the race included State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tony Thurmond, a Democrat, and Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco, a Republican. As of Sunday, neither candidate had conceded in the race.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Hilton was one of two major Republicans in the race. Bianco and Hilton kept a similar pace in polling throughout much of the campaign. It wasn’t until President Trump endorsed Hilton<\/span> in April that the former U.K. government officials began to pull away from Bianco.<\/p>\n

“I have known and respected Steve Hilton, who is running for Governor of California, for many years. He is a truly fine man, one who has watched as this once great State has gone to Hell,” Mr. Trump wrote on\u00a0Truth Social. “Steve Hilton has my COMPLETE & TOTAL ENDORSEMENT.” \u00a0<\/p>\n

In the days since election night, Hilton has criticized the state’s lengthy process for counting ballots<\/span>. During a news conference in San Mateo County on Friday, he pledged to “make sure all votes are counted within 48 hours of the mail-in deadline” if elected governor.<\/p>\n

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