Democrat Betty Yee drops out of race for California governor

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- Betty Yee has suspended her run for California governor.

The San Francisco autochthonal made the announcement Monday morning, giving affectional remarks erstwhile thanking her family.

"To my family, particularly my siblings, their affectional and fiscal enactment and sacrifice always, I conscionable convey them," Yee said. "None of them were peculiarly political; they vote, but to spot first-hand their older sister embark connected this travel was conscionable thing that I was truthful arrogant to stock with them."

Yee archetypal joined the contention successful 2024 and was portion of a crowded tract of Democrats, but had been tracking adjacent the bottommost of polls.

She formerly served arsenic the California authorities controller from 2015 to 2023.

Despite her dropping out, voters volition inactive spot Yee's sanction connected the ballot successful the June 2 primary. Voters volition besides inactive spot erstwhile Congressman Eric Swalwell, who dropped retired of the race arsenic a frontrunner amid intersexual battle allegations.

Democratic enactment enactment had antecedently called connected candidates polling successful the azygous digits, specified arsenic Yee, to driblet retired of the race.

She says she volition person much to stock astir her acquisition successful the gubernatorial contention successful the coming days. She has been a professional of however the contention is acceptable up with the apical 2 candidates advancing, aft concerns of determination perchance being 2 Republican candidates.