Becerra, running for governor of California, faces a health insurance problem
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Xavier Becerra campaigns to be governor of California in Los Angeles' Little Tokyo on August 18. He faces Republican Steve Hilton in the race to succeed two-term Gov. Gavin Newsom. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images hide caption
It's an achievement the former congressman and U.S. secretary of Health and Human Services often touts as he campaigns for California governor against Republican Steve Hilton, a former Fox News commentator.
But should Becerra cruise to victory in November, as polling suggests , he will face what may be the steepest decline in health insurance coverage in a generation, one that will land especially hard in his home state.
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“One of the common things we would hear from him as a leader was, 'Who's being left behind?'”
“It's simple and easy to say, well, the numbers are up so the program must be working,”