Xavier Becerra
American attorney and politician (born 1958)
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Races
- 2026 · Governor, CA · General · Democratic · on the ballot
- 2018 · Attorney General, CA · General · Democratic · won · 7,790,743 votes (63.6%) · source
Background
Xavier Becerra is an American attorney and politician who served as the 25th United States secretary of health and human services under President Joe Biden from 2021 to 2025.
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A member of the Democratic Party, Becerra previously served as the 33rd attorney general of California from 2017 to 2021 and as a U.S. representative from California from 1993 to 2017. He has advanced to the 2026 general election for governor of California, where he will face Republican Steve Hilton.
In the news
- California voters back a billionaire tax, but the proposal falls short of majority support
- Xavier Becerra’s excruciating interview sees him stumble over basic questions, gets name wrong in painful watch
- Xavier Becerra mocked migrant kids as ‘little Juanitos’, ex-aide claims
- California Supreme Court orders Riverside County sheriff to return 650,000 seized ballots
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Sources
- Portrait — United States Department of Health and Human Services · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons (file page)
- Background — Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0, retrieved 2026-09-24 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xavier_Becerra
- Website and social links — Wikidata (CC0) — https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1855840
- Roster — Wikipedia (secondary source) — https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=2026_California_gubernatorial_election&oldid=1375164727
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- photo_gallery — https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Xavier_Becerra_113th_Congress.jpg
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