Republicans fail to endorse CA governor candidates

(The Center Square) – Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco and former Fox News host Steve Hilton, the two leading Republican candidates for California governor, both failed to get an endorsement Sunday from the California Republican Party less than 60 days before the June 2 primary election. Bianco got 49% of the delegates' votes and Hilton, 44%, at the California Republican Convention at the Sheraton San Diego Resort. That put both short of the required 60% threshold to clinch the party’s endorsement. “The California Republican Party has an amazing candidate problem,” California Republican Party Chairwoman Corrin Rankin said at the podium during the general session of the California Republican Party’s third and last day of the convention. Hilton was endorsed in California’s gubernatorial race by President Donald Trump on Monday. The state Republican Party did make endorsements for other statewide races on the convention's