Xavier Becerra is running to be the governor of California, not the president of the United States. Given how obsessed he is with talking about President Donald Trump, you have to wonder if Becerra knows that.

Becerra, the former state attorney general and Biden administration’s Health and Human Services secretary, took to the debate stage against Republican opponent Steve Hilton. Becerra obsessively invoked Trump’s name, with local media reporting that it appeared nearly 50 times in the debate transcript. For comparison, Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA), the incumbent governor whom both men are running to replace, was mentioned up to seven times. This was in a debate that lasted only one hour.

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