Xavier Becerra, California's former attorney general and US health secretary, has secured a spot in the state's November gubernatorial general election after a remarkable recovery from just 3% in the polls only months ago. The Associated Press declared his advance under California's "top-two" primary system, in which the highest two vote-getters proceed to the general election regardless of party affiliation, though ballot counting continues to determine whether he will face fellow Democrat Tom Steyer or Trump-endorsed Republican Steve Hilton. If elected, Becerra would become California's first Latino governor since 1875, while the result has been overshadowed by unsubstantiated claims of election fraud from Donald Trump and a federal prosecutor dispatched by the Justice Department to observe ballot processing in Los Angeles.