Many of the party's key candidates are taking a friendlier tack towards the oil and gas industry. The single-most viewed clip of the 2026 election cycle might be from Xavier Becerra’s appearance at the League of California Cities conference last month. A moderator asks Becerra, a former state attorney general and the frontrunner in the governor’s race, about other candidates’ criticism of his decision to accept a donation from Chevron, the oil giant founded in Southern California. Becerra