June 2, 2026 • 36 mins
In Hour 2 of The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show, Clay Travis and Buck Sexton continue their in-depth coverage of California primary election day, national political trends, economic conditions, and voter behavior, delivering sharp analysis and commentary that ties into broader 2026 midterm election strategy and conservative political messaging.
The hour begins with continued focus on California and Iowa primaries, with the hosts emphasizing the importance of turnout and positioning these races as indicators of national political momentum heading into the midterms. They also briefly touch on strong stock market performance and ongoing economic optimism, while noting the lack of major developments in Iran negotiations, which they describe as stalled and repetitive.
A major segment of Hour 2 centers on the growing relevance of political prediction markets, which Clay argues are more accurate than traditional polling. He discusses his own active wagers on key races, including multiple U.S. Senate contests, House control, and long-term presidential projections, highlighting how real-money betting markets are shaping modern election analysis and offering insight into voter expectations. This reinforces a broader theme of the show: skepticism toward conventional polling and increasing reliance on data-driven political forecasting.
The hosts also debate whether California’s political landscape has national significance, asking whether issues like crime, homelessness, and governance failures will resonate with voters outside the state. They contrast this with what they see as a more immediate concern for most Americans: gas prices, inflation, and overall cost of living. The discussion underscores a key political question—whether economic pressures or cultural issues will ultimately drive voter decisions in upcoming elections.
Economic commentary plays a major role in this hour, with Clay predicting that gas prices could fall closer to $3 per gallon by Election Day, while also emphasizing that voters tend to focus on current expenses rather than past price comparisons. The hosts stress that consumer sentiment is driven by everyday experiences, particularly at the gas pump, making affordability a central issue in shaping political outcomes.
The conversation then broadens into a discussion of economic growth, technological progress, and quality of life, referencing the idea that modern Americans—even at lower income levels—benefit from significantly higher living standards than previous generations. Clay and Buck explore the distinction between “wealth versus status”, arguing that while overall prosperity has increased, perceptions of inequality still influence political and cultural attitudes.
They also highlight the challenges of modern abundance, discussing how technology has created a world of limitless options in entertainment, products, and services, leading to decision fatigue and “analysis paralysis.” This segment reflects on how abundance has transformed daily life, shifting societal challenges from scarcity to overabundance and choice overload, with implications for behavior, happiness, and productivity.
The centerpiece of Hour 2 is an extended interview with California gubernatorial candidate Steve Hilton, who outlines his campaign message and policy priorities. Hilton argues that California is ready for change, pointing to widespread dissatisfaction with taxes, crime, homelessness, regulatory burdens, and high cost of living. He emphasizes the importance of the state’s primary system, warning that without sufficient support, Republicans risk being excluded from the general election if two Democratic candidates advance.
Hilton presents a platform focused on economic reform and practical solutions, including plans to lower gas prices, reduce regulation, increase opportunity, and address homelessness through enforcement and treatment-based approaches. He also highlights concerns about businesses leaving California and population decline, framing the state’s current trajectory as unsustainable without major policy changes. His campaign emphasizes “common sense” governance and outsider leadership, appealing to voters frustrated with long-term one-party control.
The discussion also touches on the impact of endorsements from President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance, with Hilton arguing that alignment with federal leadership could accelerate reforms and help restore economic growth. The interview reinforces broader themes of anti-establishment sentiment, voter frustration, and the appeal of non-traditional candidates.
The hour concludes with listener interaction and lighter commentary, including humorous discussion about future political figures and speculation on the 2028 presidential race, maintaining the show’s conversational and engaging tone.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome in our number two California Primary Day, Iowa Primary Day,
and more. As we are coming on with all of you,
stock market continues to set yet another record high. The
stocks have been on a tear all throughout May. We
have now moved into June and there remains a great
(00:23):
deal of economic optimism continuing to be back and forth.
I described that yesterday Buck as Groundhog Day when it
comes to what is or is not going to happen
with Iran.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
Nothing particularly new.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
There as that talks continue surrounding the strait of horror
moves now several different stories. Graham Platner is in Washington,
d C. Today meeting with many different Senate Democrats as
his Senate primary campaign in Maine remains imperiled. I'm curious
(01:02):
maybe to dive into some of this with Buck during
the course of today's program. We have a primary in
both California and in LA and Buck, I told you
in the first hour are thanks, by the way, to
Andrew Giuliani talking about the eleven different United States stadiums
that are going to be hosting the World Cup starting
(01:23):
next week on Thursday, nine days from now, things will
begin to get a bit chaotic in a good way,
I think when it comes to everything surrounding there. As
the US hosts the World Cup for the first time
since nineteen ninety four, the US men's soccer team, by
the way, Buck scheduled to play two games in la
(01:44):
and one in Seattle in the group stages, the first
one on June twelfth, and they played well in their
matchup I think against Senegal, and Christian Polistic scored his
first goal in five months. So for those of you
who are interested, I would like to think that we
could win some games and start to have some pro
US positivity. I know for a fact there are a
(02:09):
bunch of diehard Trump guys on the US men's soccer team.
I'll leave it at that, so we will see how
all of this ends up shaking out. Now, we were
talking about what the prediction markets say as we get
ready for the midterm cycle and Buck. I have been
(02:32):
talking with Buck a lot off air. I'm obsessed with
these and I understand some of you are going to say, Oh,
I don't know why you care about what Polymarket's gonna say, Clay,
or what Kyl She's gonna say. I am far more
interested when people put their actual money down on what
they think is going to happen than trying to glean
what's going to happen from all of the different poll
(02:55):
results out there. So the we'll see what happens. Everybody
in California go vote. Karen Bass and Spencer Pratt right
now are favored to advance to the runoff. Karen Bass
is the incumbent mayor of Los Angeles. Javier Bessara and
Steve Hilton are favored to advance in the in the
(03:18):
California Governor's race. But Buck, you were asking me, I've
got right now about thirty five hundred dollars relatively small
amount of money, but I am putting my money where
my mouth is, and so I have a bunch of
different predictions here I have you asked. I have Susan
Collins to win the main Senate race. Right now, the
(03:43):
prediction markets give her a forty one percent chance to win.
I have Ken Paxton to win the Texas Senate race.
They give him a fifty nine percent chance to win.
I have the ninth district of Tennessee, the one that
they redrew in Memphis. I have the Republican Party to
(04:06):
win that race, which I think they will. I have
the Republicans to win the House. That pays out at
four to one, that is a less likely outcome. I
have Kamala to be the twenty twenty eight Democrat presidential nominee.
I have a ten to one payout if that were
(04:26):
to become a reality. And I have Mike Rodgers to
win the Michigan Senate race. Right now, they give him
a twenty nine percent chance to win. So all of
these markets are out there every single day on Calshie
and on poly market, and I pay attention to them
because I think they are a better arbiter of where
(04:48):
the current market is than trying to look at polls,
which we know are often paid for by candidates or
paid for by political parties to try and convince people
of the legitimacy of those polls as a method, as
Russia said for a long time, to drive the overall
(05:09):
narratives surrounding all of these different cases. So Buck Spencer Pratt,
I have said if I lived in Los Angeles, I
would vote for Spencer Pratt, No doubt I would. At
this point, I think you have to vote for Steve
Hilton because Chad Bianco. I don't think has a chance
to advance to the runoff, and I'm concerned that otherwise
(05:31):
we could end up with two Democrats both in the
mayor's race and in the governor's race, which I think
would be the worst outcome from the primaries in California today.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
I have this thought.
Speaker 3 (05:43):
I'm wondering about it, and again I go back to
what people that people whom I see in person just
sort of ask me, which I was appreciated. Do you
get the same thing too, that when you see people
and you just want to hang out and talk to, like, well,
explain the thing that you talk about for three hours
a day on rating, you get the personal radio show asks.
I get that sometimes. Can you just do a show
(06:03):
for me right now? Is like I want to talk
about dogs and like recipes and my baby. I have
no anyway, But people ask me this when they see me,
and they say, what is more likely here with the
California situation.
Speaker 4 (06:16):
That it will be a test case that affects whether
Democrats as a brand are on defense going into the midterms,
or that people still care more about prices.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
You see this thing on the cover. I think it
was the Wall Street Journal.
Speaker 3 (06:32):
Clay your favorite paper, oh yeah, my favorite, your favorite.
I think it was in the cover Wallstery Journal that truckers.
Maybe our truckers can tell us if this is accurate.
Some of them are spending twelve hundred dollars every two
days on fuel something like that, because they're fuel. Now,
obviously those are for those are for major transport commercial vehicles.
But the point here being gas price. Now we're heading
(06:56):
into a long summer where I think people here we go, well, yeah,
some commercial truck drivers this is cover the Wall Street Journal,
or I should say on the website, America's truckers are
driving just a little slower to save gas. Some commercial
truck drivers are slowing down to cut costs at the pump.
One driver set it costs him twelve hundred dollars to
refuel his truck every two days. Clay, there's a part
of me that wants to say, all this focus on
(07:18):
the California madness is going to help us out. But
do people in Iowa, do people in uh, well more
to the point, Georgia, Pennsylvania, do they care?
Speaker 5 (07:29):
You know?
Speaker 3 (07:29):
Is this situation in California something that the political elites
and commentators and Californians care about or does it have
national residents in an election year, that's my question.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
Yeah, I think it's a great question, and I think
this is where California can kind of give us an
indication of how viable is the Republican Party argument, because
if Spencer Pratt were to lose and you end up
with two Democrats there, and you end up with two
Democrats in the Democrat for a governor as well, it's
(08:02):
just gradations of blueness and the competition is not going
to require any real addressing of the larger issues there.
I also think narratively, if Spencer Pratt is one of
the finalists, and if Steve Hilton is one of the finalists,
you have to acknowledge that there still is enthusiasm for
Republican arguments nationwide, and I think that is significant as well.
(08:28):
I will say price of oil and gas has comeback.
It's come back an average of about thirty cents ish.
I believe, based on the numbers that I have seen
since Memorial Day, as I told you, based on oil
and gas prices, was likely to happen. I'm on the
record as saying I think we're going to be around
three dollars a gallon by the time we get to
(08:50):
the election in November. Right now, the average gas price
is four dollars ish like nationwide. And again I always
like to have fun with this, but average gas price
nationwide does not mean that is what you paid this morning.
So I appreciate that if you live in California, you,
for instance, are paying way more than if you live
in Louisiana or Texas. And so there is a wide
(09:15):
variety of different prices that people pay. I noticed in
my particular neighborhood driving home a couple of days ago,
prices were down to three ninety on the gas stations
as I was driving past near where I live, So
back under four dollars. Year average gas price around four
dollars as well, And so I think all of these,
(09:38):
all of these factors are huge, but I think gas
price is going to be a big part and candidly
of how people feel about the overall economics situation. And
now I was reading Great Peace in the Wall Street
Journal over the weekend that kind of ran through. In fact,
I flagged this buck because I did think it was
Perspective is important in life, and I think a lot
(10:01):
of times here is Warren Buffett said recently, and I
flagged it because I thought it was so interesting that
the poorest people in America today live richer than the
richest people in the world did in the early twentieth century.
Speaker 3 (10:19):
It just sounds like your buddy Buck over here, who's
been telling everybody that wealth and status are different things,
that wealth and where you fall within the hierarchy of
the society around you are different things.
Speaker 2 (10:28):
And this is this is go ahead. Sorry.
Speaker 1 (10:30):
I sent this in to producer Greg and it is
cut eight. You will appreciate what Warren Buffett said. It's
from I think a couple of years ago, but I
do think it goes to perspective and to your point
on wealth versus status, all these different things. But listen
to Warren Buffett, the greatest, probably the greatest capitalist other
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than Elon Musk of all time. Certainly Warren Buffett is
the greatest investor, I think it's fair to say, of
all time.
Speaker 2 (10:57):
Listen to this Bottom Cooper.
Speaker 6 (11:00):
In terms of income in the United States, the bottom
through five percent, and for sure the top one percent
all live better than John D. Rockefeller was living when
I was six years old.
Speaker 5 (11:13):
John D.
Speaker 6 (11:13):
Rockerfeller was the richest man in the world. And today
you can get better medicine, better education, better entertainment, better transportation.
You can do everything better than he could. It's astounding.
That's in my lifetime. If you wanted to launch a
football game, he still had to go there. And I
(11:36):
can sit there with this big screen and they keep
showing me the replay, so they're explaining to me what
happened and everything. And maybe everybody doesn't have a screen
as big as mine, but damn near everybody has a
screen or have an iPhone or a computer or access
to one. I mean when I was born, you know,
the Denis didn't use novagate.
Speaker 5 (11:57):
I mean you.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
Really well said.
Speaker 3 (12:01):
Well, this is what I've been telling everyone, and this
is what I keep saying. In the context of artificial intelligence.
Will there be some job displacement and that is a
societal concern?
Speaker 2 (12:10):
Yes? Absolutely, Will AI.
Speaker 3 (12:12):
Make everyone, everyone, no matter where you are on the
income scale, markedly wealthier in terms of those things that
Warren Buffett just laid out. The answer is certainly yes,
certainly yes. The same with the Internet has made everyone
because of productivity gains and every product and every service
(12:32):
and everything that you are exposed to the Internet has
made everyone wealthier as well. It has been hard on
you know, stockbrokers and travel agents, but overall the Internet
has made people much much wealthier. So wealth and status
are different things, and wealth relative to other people versus
(12:53):
versus wealth in an absolute sense. And this is also
why I think Clay, you have a society now here
in America, and a lot of this is around the world,
the same situation where we and now have problems including diseases,
physical diseases of over abundance, but we even have over
abundance in terms of entertainment options. If you had told
(13:13):
me twenty years ago that I would be able to
turn on without commercials a movie library with almost with
basically any movie that I had ever wanted to see,
and I could just press A but I would have said,
oh my gosh, that's amazing. Now what happens? You get
analysis paralysis? How many of you sit there? The only
thing you know is you've got to listen to Clay
and Buck every day for three hours. But after that,
(13:34):
what do you do with your time? How do you
spend your time? So this is the great wealth abundance
problem that we have now. People are too fat from
too many calories. People have too much entertainment. People are
glued to all the screens that are everywhere, with more entertaining,
more addictive things for your eyes than ever before. People
could shop with the stroke of a thumb, you know,
(13:57):
et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.
Speaker 2 (13:58):
This is going to continue.
Speaker 3 (14:00):
And this is why I think spirituality and connection to
people who matter in your life and family and those
things actually become more important.
Speaker 2 (14:06):
But that's a conversation for another time.
Speaker 1 (14:08):
I think the analysis paralysis is going to become more
and more commonplace. And my concern is that you're gonna
see I mean, I had to go buy I think
it was peanut butter.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
The other day.
Speaker 1 (14:23):
How do you decide which peanut butter to buy? You know,
like there are there is an element where you go
from Okay, I want crunchy or I want plane to
their twenty different brands, and god forbid you even make
a decision about what makes sense.
Speaker 3 (14:40):
I used to I used to like hummus when I
was younger, and the hummus that I used to eat
like the from the grocery store. Now I think of
it's like trash a la poubelle. It is it is
terrible quality.
Speaker 2 (14:51):
Hummus.
Speaker 3 (14:52):
It was delicious to me twenty years ago, but now Clay,
you go in there and there's all these amazing the
same thing as true of milks to say this. So
we have more and more choice, and we have hedonic adaptation.
We have so much access and so much wealth that
we forget how things were before, and it's important to
keep that. Gratitude and humility are two of the most important,
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Speaker 3 (16:50):
I wish everyone would remember that in June of twenty
twenty two, gas in the Detroit, Michigan area was five
dollars and twenty nine cents a gallon due to Biden's regulations, Barb,
I'm just gonna say it. The other guy was worse.
Gas prices were higher. No one will remember, no one
will care. That's not gonna do it at all. People
just know what their credit card is getting dinged with
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right now. They know what it was yesterday, they know
what they think it'll be next week. They do not
care what the price of gas was, unless you're gonna
say it's the highest or the lowest that it's been
in thirty years or something, oh, a few years ago,
a clay, you can disagree with this. I don't think
that's gonna help us at all.
Speaker 1 (17:29):
But yeah, well, look, it is simultaneously the case that
the price of oil and gas four years ago was
higher than it is today. It is also the case
that people have very short memories, and Trump said I
will bring down costs, So.
Speaker 3 (17:44):
Being I would disagree with bar I just don't think
that's gonna help us. I don't think that's gonna help
Trump at all. Is my feeling on that unfortunately.
Speaker 1 (17:53):
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He is in Huntington Beach, California. Pretty fantastic coastal community there, Steve.
(19:03):
We know you're running around like crazy. We encourage everybody
out there in the primary world to go vote in California,
and I'll let you make the case to this audience
why if they want a Republican into the final two,
that vote needs to be for you.
Speaker 5 (19:20):
Thank you, guys. It's really great to be with you,
and I think it's really important just to think about
the opportunity here in November. Today we've got the primary,
and I'll get to that in a second, But the
reason it matters is because actually this state is ready
for change. We are done with the insanity, the crime,
the chaos, the homelessness, that taxes, the regulations, the bloat,
(19:42):
the bureaucracy, the nanny state nonsense. We have done with it.
And you can see that in the energy in La
around Spencer Pratts campaign. You see it in the crowds
that we're getting up and down the state. So I
think when you look at the November election, we really
can turn it around. It is not a lot cause
it really is the year when we can win. There's
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a majority of Californians now who want to go in
a new direction. That is shown by every single poll.
The Democrat candidates for governor are a disaster. You've got
the billionaire climate fanatic Tom Steier, You've got Biden's useless
HHS secretary Javier Besra. So the opportunity, the golden opportunity,
is very, very big this year, but we only get
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it if we can get a Republican into the top two.
And because we have this crazy system in California where
you could end up with two Democrats, we've got to
really take that seriously today because the poles have been tightening.
Tom Steier, he's already spent two hundred and twenty million
dollars trying to buy this election. He's creeping up, and
(20:44):
most of the polls now now show pretty much a
three horse race, Myself, Stier, and Besserah. They're up there.
There's a few points difference in the different poles. But
that's how we have to think about it. There is
no guarantee at this moment that a Republican will make
it into the top two. That's why every single vote
is vital, like truly vital. And I want to address
(21:06):
directly something that I hear from many people in our state,
which is Steve looks like he's got this. He's been
leading in most of the polls for most of the year.
Let's see if we can get two Republicans in the
top two by voting for the other guy running, who's
the Republican, Chad Bianco. And I understand the sentiment there,
but it is really dangerous thinking because the facts and
(21:26):
the math don't bear it out. I'll just give you
one example. Poll came out on Friday. This is from
a Democrat pollster has me at twenty seven percent, Javier
Besara twenty six percent, Tom Steier twenty two percent, Chad
Bianco nine percent. There is actually now no possibility that
he can get in the top two. It's nothing personal.
We don't disagree on policy, we have a good relationship.
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It's just where we are in the campaign. And so
every single vote for anybody other than me, including Chad Bianco,
is actually a vote to get two Democrats in the
top two, and that kills the chance change. That's why
I'm so happy to have had the President restate his
endorsement and urge everyone to get out and vote for me. Today,
and I've just seen that the Vice President jd Vance
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has done the same, and I'm so honored to have
his support on this very special day. But it's not
going to happen this amazing opportunity to save California unless
we really take this seriously. Every vote counts. If you're
listening in California, please make sure you get your vote in,
Please make sure you vote for me. And if you've
already voted, tell all your friends, text, email, you know.
(22:31):
The drill we've got to get every single vote is
up till eight pm.
Speaker 3 (22:33):
Tonight, Steve, I just want to note that we've been
having you here on this show to tell our California
audience about your extremely viable and now leading you know,
in the in the very top of this race candidacy
from the beginning. So we're very proud that we saw
that this was something that could Yes, thank you, thank you.
(22:55):
Of course, that we knew that you were a serious contender,
We knew that you were going to connect with the
voters there. There's just a desire for things to be better.
One of the aspects of this that I see in
both your campaign and the Spencer Pratt campaign for the
Mayor's office in LA that that one thing, a common
thread that runs between the two of them is why
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leave the people who mess everything up still? Why leave
them in charge? And also why not have people who
are just promising to fix the things that the people
of California want fixed. It feels like that's the mental
hurdle that we just need enough voters to get beyond.
Speaker 5 (23:32):
Exactly and just to believe that change is possible, that
we just to just to say we don't have to
live like this, We do not have to put up
with this. The choice is in our hands with our
votes today. And what's really interesting, Spencer's very different character.
In many ways. I know him a little bit. I
endorsed him, We actually both. I spoke at the same
event where he announced his candidacy on January the seventh,
(23:54):
the one year anniversary of the five that they let
us burn rally. He's very different, different race. It's non
partisan in the LA Mayor's race. I'm running as a Republican.
But here's the similarity. We are both outsiders. Neither of
us have run for office before, and we're not afraid
to just tell the truth about this totally broken, corrupt,
failed system in LA and across California, and you see
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the results all around us, and so we've just got
to tell the truth about that. And honestly, for these
Democrats sometimes I even wonder how they have the nerve
to ask for another four years in power. They've had
sixteen years of total control of California, all the state
wide offices, that both chambers in the Legislature with the
two thirds majority, all the major cities, all the major counties,
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the state Supreme Court with a six' to one. Majority
they've had sixteen years of total control to show us
that this progressive model of governance, works and they've had totally.
Failed we have the highest poverty rate in the, country
the highest unemployment, rate the highest cost of living by,
far ranked fifty out of fifty for opportunity BY Us
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news and W Old, report fiftieth out of fifty states
for business climate By Chief Executive. Magazine we have the
highest taxes in the country for the worst. Results the
education results are a, disaster, homelessness rampant, crime and chaos.
Everywhere the cities are a total like third World scholler
in our great. Cities and it's not Just, la it's
right across the. STATE i, mean they've completely, Failed but
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how dare they ask for another four? Years how you
don't deserve another four? Minutes and we've just got to
have people who are representing common sense. Change that's the
other thing about our. Campaigns they're not, divisive they're not.
Ideological what AM i running? On your first one hundred
grand tax, free three dollar, gas cut your electric bills in,
half a home you're can afford to, buy cut your,
costs help your, business fix our. Schools just practical things
(25:45):
that make life. Better Because californy has got everything we.
Need amazing natural, beauty incredible, people the best, weather, talent, energy.
Innovators we got everything we. Need we're going to have
unlimited natural, resources oil and, gas, water everything we. Need
accept a good governor and once we have, that all
we got to do is get out the way And
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california will thrive like you've never seen.
Speaker 1 (26:07):
Before what will the results of the primary tell? YOU
i think you're going to be advancing into the final.
TWO i Think Spencer pratt will as well in order
to get into the. General AND i know the primary is.
Today we want everybody to go. Vote we want you
into that final too. Tomorrow in, theory you pivot and
it becomes a general. Election how many persuadable voters do
(26:32):
you think there are In? California Because california has voted overwhelmingly.
Blue the analogy we've used on this program Is juliani
And bloomberg got elected In New York city because people
were fed up with the status quo with Traditional. Democrats,
california potentially With Spencer, pratt potentially with you is finally
saying as part of your, candidacies, hey the old blue
(26:55):
ways don't make. Sense let's just bring in some. Sanity
how many persuadable do you think there are in the.
Speaker 5 (27:01):
General, Well i'm going to give you a real. Number
this is a poll that The California post commissioned and
published just at the end of last. Week fifty six
that's the number who say the state's going in the wrong.
Direction that's and that's a, majority AND i think that's the.
Group it's more than we. Need we just be fifty
percent plus. One BUT i think that's where you, start
(27:23):
and that is really what this is. About it's, saying
we really can change is, possible but you're not going
to get it if you keep voting the same. Way
and so actually a big theme of the general election,
campaign which as we plan to, do starts, tomorrow is
just those two simple, words vote. Different you've got to
stop voting the same way and think you're going to
(27:45):
get a different. Result we've tried that now for a
very long time In california and it hasn't. WORKED i,
mean you Still Gavin newson last time in his re
election campaign acknowledging he'd failed to solve, homelessness failed to
deal with the housing, crisis to reduce the bloat and,
bureaucracy and they go all these things he were saying
and made all these, promises none of them have been.
Delivered everything's got. Worse housing costs are, higher gas prices are.
(28:09):
Higher the homelessness is more than it. Was you, know
it's even though we've spent tens of billions of dollars on,
homelessness and in, fact we estimate four hundred and twenty
five billion dollars in, fraud waste and abused in the
last five years In. California so they're, Done.
Speaker 2 (28:25):
Steve steve CAN i CAN i jump in With we
know that it's a.
Speaker 3 (28:29):
Disaster as you're outlining the previous or the up to this,
point the recent, governor the the you know what's going
On Los Angeles. County but you hit on three things
there THAT i think go to not only critical issues For,
california but in other Misgoverned blue. States these tend to
be problems as well. Well certainly housing gas right, Now
(28:52):
blue states tend to have higher prices depends and then
homelessness depends on Which blue. State but a place Like
New york certainly has a lot of those challenges.
Speaker 2 (28:58):
Too but what are.
Speaker 3 (28:59):
Your in in shorthand how do you actually make those
three things?
Speaker 2 (29:05):
Better as governor In. California, Well i'll deal with the.
Speaker 5 (29:08):
Specifics on. Gas you, know my target is three dollar.
Gas that's the pledge That i've. Made we're going to
try and get to three dollar, gas and people that
are how you going to do? That it's so? High, now,
yeah that's, Right but before The Iran war in forty
four zero states In, america gas was three dollars or.
Less most of them don't have oil. Reserves we have
(29:28):
abundant oil serves right here In, california but because of
their insane climate, policy we're importing it eighty percent nearly
of our oil is now. Imported that's what we can.
Change and by the, WAY i can do that directly
through the executive, branch through the state, agencies not needing
the legislature to do, that even if it's A democrat,
LEGISLATURE i can make that. Happen that's the starting. Point
(29:48):
instead of the cost and idiocy of shipping in, oil
we'll use our. Own then there's a whole bunch of
climate regulation that we can roll back and start to
get back, to because most of the two dollars or
more increase in gas prices In california compared to the
rest of the country is not actually The Gas. Tact
that's about sixty odd cents of. It most of it
is these regulations that we can. Change in terms of,
(30:10):
homelessness is very. Straightforward we've got a number one enforced the.
Law these homeless campments are, Illegal they've always been, illegal
but they've refused to actually remove them by some misguided
notion of. Compassion how compassion is it to let people
live in those. Conditions so my starting point will be
to say to local politicians are getting with a certain
amount of time between three and six, months to say
(30:32):
you've got to clean it up all of, it not
some you know usems bragging about a nine percent, reduction
which is which is bs, anyway if you look at the, Data,
no it needs to be one hundred percent. Reduction you
don't see this in other. States you don't see it
in other. Countries it's totally avoidable if you just start
by that principle of we going to enforced the. Law
by the, way it's exactly What Spensive practice saying IN.
(30:54):
La he's making the same, point and so that the
next step is to get people into drug and. Alcohol
we have because eighty percent of people who are homeless
have those problems and mental health. Services and the money's
there for, that because we've seen the billions that has
gone into what they call the homeless industrial, complex all
these useless nonprofits doing nothing except keeping themselves in, business
and crony developers who are selling these apartment units to
(31:17):
the government for about a million dollars, each which are
just they put people in there who addicted to, fentanel
nothing ever. Happens so we've got the resources to do.
It Spencer praht's plan is basically the same as. MINE
i THINK La if he, wins AS i very much
hope and think he, will then well that's one CITY
i can check off my list because he's going to
(31:38):
get it done. THERE i want to make a broader, point,
though which is the foundation of all this is a strong,
economy and actually the main MISSION i think for me
is going to be rescuing our. Economy we're heading for real.
Disasters so many business leaders That i've met in the
last year or so have said to, me we're just
waiting for your, election and if you don't make, it
we are. Out the exodus that we've seen so far
(31:59):
is going to be a dampede if we have another
four years Of democrat. Rule and this state is in real,
trouble and so we've got to turn that. Around we
made an estimate last week we published this that the
total cost of the bloated regulatory nanny state bureaucracy In
california on our, economy it's seven hundred and forty five
billion dollars a year in economic. Cost if we cut that,
(32:20):
out Then california would become not just we're now the
fourth biggest, economy we'd be the third biggest economy in the.
World if we just cut out all the. Nonsense that's
what we've got to do to start getting businesses back,
here so we create the, jobs so we don't have
the highest unemployment in the country and good paying jobs
so we don't have the highest poverty in the. Country
so the economic crisis is something that's very much top
(32:42):
of my.
Speaker 1 (32:43):
List Steve, elton last question for. You from eighteen fifty
to twenty, twenty to your, Point california gain population every.
Year starting in twenty, twenty the population began to. Decline
that needs to be. Fixed Jade vance just endorsed. YOU
i just saw on social Media President trump has endorsed.
You last, question what is the impact of The Trump
(33:05):
vance endorsement on primary day?
Speaker 5 (33:07):
Here it's huge because it will tell everyone who wants,
change but Particularly republican voters because it's a primary and
typically it's the it's people who are the more committed
partisans who vote in. Primaries you've got to get this
done because what that means is that you're going to
have a partner for the administration who are wanting to
make common sense change. Happen The president wants to open
(33:30):
up energy, production so DO. I newsom is blocking. It
The vice president is heading his fraud task for was
trying to save taxpayer money In, california so DO, i
But newsom is blocking. It it's going to be a
new day when you have a governor In, california in
our biggest, state actually working with the administration to make
common sense change to. Happen it's going to benefit everyone
(33:51):
In california but our whole country as. Well but it
won't happen unless people go and vote for. It and
you've got to do that.
Speaker 2 (33:57):
Today go, Vote, Californians go vot.
Speaker 3 (34:00):
Vote even if it takes a week or a month
for these votes to be counted because of the dysfunction.
Speaker 2 (34:04):
There you got to go vote.
Speaker 3 (34:05):
Today go vote for a, Man Steve hilton for, governor And,
steve we are pulling for. You we're counting on, you
or we're you, know what's the Word i'm looking not
counting on. You what's the Word i'm looking?
Speaker 1 (34:17):
For, oh we're looking forward to celebrating your advancement to
the final. Two do you expect to find out tonight
or do you think this thing is going to drag
on for?
Speaker 5 (34:25):
Weeks by the, way we, think we think that there's
a strong chance that will get a sense that we've done. It.
YEAH i don't want to put a number on, it
but we think it's possible that tonight will know not for,
certain it won't be, confirmed but we'll have a very
good sense of. It we think that's.
Speaker 3 (34:41):
Possible maybe no vote For Steve, Hilton, californians go get it, Done.
Speaker 2 (34:44):
Steve best of, luck we'll talk to you. Soon thank.
Speaker 3 (34:47):
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on the iheartapp or wherever you get your. Podcasts welcome
back In Steve hilton on with. Us thank you for.
That jason and San antonio has been. Way you can
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Speaker 7 (35:52):
Away hey, guys how's it going?
Speaker 1 (35:56):
FANTASTIC i had a great.
Speaker 7 (35:59):
Idea for the both of you that you don't have
to do a voice or. Anything but if you were
in charge of the speech That Kamala harrison would have
given to celebrate the fourth Of, JULY i think both
you could come up with some hilarious stuff two or three.
Minutes it would be. Hilarious it would have to start
with the land acknowledgment for the.
Speaker 2 (36:20):
Displace, well, no.
Speaker 3 (36:21):
No kamala would start off by telling everybody two hundred
and fifty years Of america unburdened by The america that has.
Speaker 1 (36:30):
Been OH i thank The lord that we don't have
to deal with, that although she's gonna be the nominee
in twenty twenty, eight so we may have to worry about.
Speaker 2 (36:38):
It, Nine i'm just gonna keep saying you're.
Speaker 3 (36:40):
CRAZY i don't even care if you're, right because that's
such a crazy idea THAT i just can't allow.
Speaker 2 (36:45):
IT i can't process.
Speaker 5 (36:46):
It
Welcome in our number two California Primary Day, Iowa Primary Day,
and more. As we are coming on with all of you,
stock market continues to set yet another record high. The
stocks have been on a tear all throughout May. We
have now moved into June and there remains a great
(00:23):
deal of economic optimism continuing to be back and forth.
I described that yesterday Buck as Groundhog Day when it
comes to what is or is not going to happen
with Iran.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
Nothing particularly new.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
There as that talks continue surrounding the strait of horror
moves now several different stories. Graham Platner is in Washington,
d C. Today meeting with many different Senate Democrats as
his Senate primary campaign in Maine remains imperiled. I'm curious
(01:02):
maybe to dive into some of this with Buck during
the course of today's program. We have a primary in
both California and in LA and Buck, I told you
in the first hour are thanks, by the way, to
Andrew Giuliani talking about the eleven different United States stadiums
that are going to be hosting the World Cup starting
(01:23):
next week on Thursday, nine days from now, things will
begin to get a bit chaotic in a good way,
I think when it comes to everything surrounding there. As
the US hosts the World Cup for the first time
since nineteen ninety four, the US men's soccer team, by
the way, Buck scheduled to play two games in la
(01:44):
and one in Seattle in the group stages, the first
one on June twelfth, and they played well in their
matchup I think against Senegal, and Christian Polistic scored his
first goal in five months. So for those of you
who are interested, I would like to think that we
could win some games and start to have some pro
US positivity. I know for a fact there are a
(02:09):
bunch of diehard Trump guys on the US men's soccer team.
I'll leave it at that, so we will see how
all of this ends up shaking out. Now, we were
talking about what the prediction markets say as we get
ready for the midterm cycle and Buck. I have been
(02:32):
talking with Buck a lot off air. I'm obsessed with
these and I understand some of you are going to say, Oh,
I don't know why you care about what Polymarket's gonna say, Clay,
or what Kyl She's gonna say. I am far more
interested when people put their actual money down on what
they think is going to happen than trying to glean
what's going to happen from all of the different poll
(02:55):
results out there. So the we'll see what happens. Everybody
in California go vote. Karen Bass and Spencer Pratt right
now are favored to advance to the runoff. Karen Bass
is the incumbent mayor of Los Angeles. Javier Bessara and
Steve Hilton are favored to advance in the in the
(03:18):
California Governor's race. But Buck, you were asking me, I've
got right now about thirty five hundred dollars relatively small
amount of money, but I am putting my money where
my mouth is, and so I have a bunch of
different predictions here I have you asked. I have Susan
Collins to win the main Senate race. Right now, the
(03:43):
prediction markets give her a forty one percent chance to win.
I have Ken Paxton to win the Texas Senate race.
They give him a fifty nine percent chance to win.
I have the ninth district of Tennessee, the one that
they redrew in Memphis. I have the Republican Party to
(04:06):
win that race, which I think they will. I have
the Republicans to win the House. That pays out at
four to one, that is a less likely outcome. I
have Kamala to be the twenty twenty eight Democrat presidential nominee.
I have a ten to one payout if that were
(04:26):
to become a reality. And I have Mike Rodgers to
win the Michigan Senate race. Right now, they give him
a twenty nine percent chance to win. So all of
these markets are out there every single day on Calshie
and on poly market, and I pay attention to them
because I think they are a better arbiter of where
(04:48):
the current market is than trying to look at polls,
which we know are often paid for by candidates or
paid for by political parties to try and convince people
of the legitimacy of those polls as a method, as
Russia said for a long time, to drive the overall
(05:09):
narratives surrounding all of these different cases. So Buck Spencer Pratt,
I have said if I lived in Los Angeles, I
would vote for Spencer Pratt, No doubt I would. At
this point, I think you have to vote for Steve
Hilton because Chad Bianco. I don't think has a chance
to advance to the runoff, and I'm concerned that otherwise
(05:31):
we could end up with two Democrats both in the
mayor's race and in the governor's race, which I think
would be the worst outcome from the primaries in California today.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
I have this thought.
Speaker 3 (05:43):
I'm wondering about it, and again I go back to
what people that people whom I see in person just
sort of ask me, which I was appreciated. Do you
get the same thing too, that when you see people
and you just want to hang out and talk to, like, well,
explain the thing that you talk about for three hours
a day on rating, you get the personal radio show asks.
I get that sometimes. Can you just do a show
(06:03):
for me right now? Is like I want to talk
about dogs and like recipes and my baby. I have
no anyway, But people ask me this when they see me,
and they say, what is more likely here with the
California situation.
Speaker 4 (06:16):
That it will be a test case that affects whether
Democrats as a brand are on defense going into the midterms,
or that people still care more about prices.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
You see this thing on the cover. I think it
was the Wall Street Journal.
Speaker 3 (06:32):
Clay your favorite paper, oh yeah, my favorite, your favorite.
I think it was in the cover Wallstery Journal that truckers.
Maybe our truckers can tell us if this is accurate.
Some of them are spending twelve hundred dollars every two
days on fuel something like that, because they're fuel. Now,
obviously those are for those are for major transport commercial vehicles.
But the point here being gas price. Now we're heading
(06:56):
into a long summer where I think people here we go, well, yeah,
some commercial truck drivers this is cover the Wall Street Journal,
or I should say on the website, America's truckers are
driving just a little slower to save gas. Some commercial
truck drivers are slowing down to cut costs at the pump.
One driver set it costs him twelve hundred dollars to
refuel his truck every two days. Clay, there's a part
of me that wants to say, all this focus on
(07:18):
the California madness is going to help us out. But
do people in Iowa, do people in uh, well more
to the point, Georgia, Pennsylvania, do they care?
Speaker 5 (07:29):
You know?
Speaker 3 (07:29):
Is this situation in California something that the political elites
and commentators and Californians care about or does it have
national residents in an election year, that's my question.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
Yeah, I think it's a great question, and I think
this is where California can kind of give us an
indication of how viable is the Republican Party argument, because
if Spencer Pratt were to lose and you end up
with two Democrats there, and you end up with two
Democrats in the Democrat for a governor as well, it's
(08:02):
just gradations of blueness and the competition is not going
to require any real addressing of the larger issues there.
I also think narratively, if Spencer Pratt is one of
the finalists, and if Steve Hilton is one of the finalists,
you have to acknowledge that there still is enthusiasm for
Republican arguments nationwide, and I think that is significant as well.
(08:28):
I will say price of oil and gas has comeback.
It's come back an average of about thirty cents ish.
I believe, based on the numbers that I have seen
since Memorial Day, as I told you, based on oil
and gas prices, was likely to happen. I'm on the
record as saying I think we're going to be around
three dollars a gallon by the time we get to
(08:50):
the election in November. Right now, the average gas price
is four dollars ish like nationwide. And again I always
like to have fun with this, but average gas price
nationwide does not mean that is what you paid this morning.
So I appreciate that if you live in California, you,
for instance, are paying way more than if you live
in Louisiana or Texas. And so there is a wide
(09:15):
variety of different prices that people pay. I noticed in
my particular neighborhood driving home a couple of days ago,
prices were down to three ninety on the gas stations
as I was driving past near where I live, So
back under four dollars. Year average gas price around four
dollars as well, And so I think all of these,
(09:38):
all of these factors are huge, but I think gas
price is going to be a big part and candidly
of how people feel about the overall economics situation. And
now I was reading Great Peace in the Wall Street
Journal over the weekend that kind of ran through. In fact,
I flagged this buck because I did think it was
Perspective is important in life, and I think a lot
(10:01):
of times here is Warren Buffett said recently, and I
flagged it because I thought it was so interesting that
the poorest people in America today live richer than the
richest people in the world did in the early twentieth century.
Speaker 3 (10:19):
It just sounds like your buddy Buck over here, who's
been telling everybody that wealth and status are different things,
that wealth and where you fall within the hierarchy of
the society around you are different things.
Speaker 2 (10:28):
And this is this is go ahead. Sorry.
Speaker 1 (10:30):
I sent this in to producer Greg and it is
cut eight. You will appreciate what Warren Buffett said. It's
from I think a couple of years ago, but I
do think it goes to perspective and to your point
on wealth versus status, all these different things. But listen
to Warren Buffett, the greatest, probably the greatest capitalist other
(10:51):
than Elon Musk of all time. Certainly Warren Buffett is
the greatest investor, I think it's fair to say, of
all time.
Speaker 2 (10:57):
Listen to this Bottom Cooper.
Speaker 6 (11:00):
In terms of income in the United States, the bottom
through five percent, and for sure the top one percent
all live better than John D. Rockefeller was living when
I was six years old.
Speaker 5 (11:13):
John D.
Speaker 6 (11:13):
Rockerfeller was the richest man in the world. And today
you can get better medicine, better education, better entertainment, better transportation.
You can do everything better than he could. It's astounding.
That's in my lifetime. If you wanted to launch a
football game, he still had to go there. And I
(11:36):
can sit there with this big screen and they keep
showing me the replay, so they're explaining to me what
happened and everything. And maybe everybody doesn't have a screen
as big as mine, but damn near everybody has a
screen or have an iPhone or a computer or access
to one. I mean when I was born, you know,
the Denis didn't use novagate.
Speaker 5 (11:57):
I mean you.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
Really well said.
Speaker 3 (12:01):
Well, this is what I've been telling everyone, and this
is what I keep saying. In the context of artificial intelligence.
Will there be some job displacement and that is a
societal concern?
Speaker 2 (12:10):
Yes? Absolutely, Will AI.
Speaker 3 (12:12):
Make everyone, everyone, no matter where you are on the
income scale, markedly wealthier in terms of those things that
Warren Buffett just laid out. The answer is certainly yes,
certainly yes. The same with the Internet has made everyone
because of productivity gains and every product and every service
(12:32):
and everything that you are exposed to the Internet has
made everyone wealthier as well. It has been hard on
you know, stockbrokers and travel agents, but overall the Internet
has made people much much wealthier. So wealth and status
are different things, and wealth relative to other people versus
(12:53):
versus wealth in an absolute sense. And this is also
why I think Clay, you have a society now here
in America, and a lot of this is around the world,
the same situation where we and now have problems including diseases,
physical diseases of over abundance, but we even have over
abundance in terms of entertainment options. If you had told
(13:13):
me twenty years ago that I would be able to
turn on without commercials a movie library with almost with
basically any movie that I had ever wanted to see,
and I could just press A but I would have said,
oh my gosh, that's amazing. Now what happens? You get
analysis paralysis? How many of you sit there? The only
thing you know is you've got to listen to Clay
and Buck every day for three hours. But after that,
(13:34):
what do you do with your time? How do you
spend your time? So this is the great wealth abundance
problem that we have now. People are too fat from
too many calories. People have too much entertainment. People are
glued to all the screens that are everywhere, with more entertaining,
more addictive things for your eyes than ever before. People
could shop with the stroke of a thumb, you know,
(13:57):
et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.
Speaker 2 (13:58):
This is going to continue.
Speaker 3 (14:00):
And this is why I think spirituality and connection to
people who matter in your life and family and those
things actually become more important.
Speaker 2 (14:06):
But that's a conversation for another time.
Speaker 1 (14:08):
I think the analysis paralysis is going to become more
and more commonplace. And my concern is that you're gonna
see I mean, I had to go buy I think
it was peanut butter.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
The other day.
Speaker 1 (14:23):
How do you decide which peanut butter to buy? You know,
like there are there is an element where you go
from Okay, I want crunchy or I want plane to
their twenty different brands, and god forbid you even make
a decision about what makes sense.
Speaker 3 (14:40):
I used to I used to like hummus when I
was younger, and the hummus that I used to eat
like the from the grocery store. Now I think of
it's like trash a la poubelle. It is it is
terrible quality.
Speaker 2 (14:51):
Hummus.
Speaker 3 (14:52):
It was delicious to me twenty years ago, but now Clay,
you go in there and there's all these amazing the
same thing as true of milks to say this. So
we have more and more choice, and we have hedonic adaptation.
We have so much access and so much wealth that
we forget how things were before, and it's important to
keep that. Gratitude and humility are two of the most important,
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He is in Huntington Beach, California. Pretty fantastic coastal community there, Steve.
(19:03):
We know you're running around like crazy. We encourage everybody
out there in the primary world to go vote in California,
and I'll let you make the case to this audience
why if they want a Republican into the final two,
that vote needs to be for you.
Speaker 5 (19:20):
Thank you, guys. It's really great to be with you,
and I think it's really important just to think about
the opportunity here in November. Today we've got the primary,
and I'll get to that in a second, But the
reason it matters is because actually this state is ready
for change. We are done with the insanity, the crime,
the chaos, the homelessness, that taxes, the regulations, the bloat,
(19:42):
the bureaucracy, the nanny state nonsense. We have done with it.
And you can see that in the energy in La
around Spencer Pratts campaign. You see it in the crowds
that we're getting up and down the state. So I
think when you look at the November election, we really
can turn it around. It is not a lot cause
it really is the year when we can win. There's
(20:03):
a majority of Californians now who want to go in
a new direction. That is shown by every single poll.
The Democrat candidates for governor are a disaster. You've got
the billionaire climate fanatic Tom Steier, You've got Biden's useless
HHS secretary Javier Besra. So the opportunity, the golden opportunity,
is very, very big this year, but we only get
(20:24):
it if we can get a Republican into the top two.
And because we have this crazy system in California where
you could end up with two Democrats, we've got to
really take that seriously today because the poles have been tightening.
Tom Steier, he's already spent two hundred and twenty million
dollars trying to buy this election. He's creeping up, and
(20:44):
most of the polls now now show pretty much a
three horse race, Myself, Stier, and Besserah. They're up there.
There's a few points difference in the different poles. But
that's how we have to think about it. There is
no guarantee at this moment that a Republican will make
it into the top two. That's why every single vote
is vital, like truly vital. And I want to address
(21:06):
directly something that I hear from many people in our state,
which is Steve looks like he's got this. He's been
leading in most of the polls for most of the year.
Let's see if we can get two Republicans in the
top two by voting for the other guy running, who's
the Republican, Chad Bianco. And I understand the sentiment there,
but it is really dangerous thinking because the facts and
(21:26):
the math don't bear it out. I'll just give you
one example. Poll came out on Friday. This is from
a Democrat pollster has me at twenty seven percent, Javier
Besara twenty six percent, Tom Steier twenty two percent, Chad
Bianco nine percent. There is actually now no possibility that
he can get in the top two. It's nothing personal.
We don't disagree on policy, we have a good relationship.
(21:48):
It's just where we are in the campaign. And so
every single vote for anybody other than me, including Chad Bianco,
is actually a vote to get two Democrats in the
top two, and that kills the chance change. That's why
I'm so happy to have had the President restate his
endorsement and urge everyone to get out and vote for me. Today,
and I've just seen that the Vice President jd Vance
(22:09):
has done the same, and I'm so honored to have
his support on this very special day. But it's not
going to happen this amazing opportunity to save California unless
we really take this seriously. Every vote counts. If you're
listening in California, please make sure you get your vote in,
Please make sure you vote for me. And if you've
already voted, tell all your friends, text, email, you know.
(22:31):
The drill we've got to get every single vote is
up till eight pm.
Speaker 3 (22:33):
Tonight, Steve, I just want to note that we've been
having you here on this show to tell our California
audience about your extremely viable and now leading you know,
in the in the very top of this race candidacy
from the beginning. So we're very proud that we saw
that this was something that could Yes, thank you, thank you.
(22:55):
Of course, that we knew that you were a serious contender,
We knew that you were going to connect with the
voters there. There's just a desire for things to be better.
One of the aspects of this that I see in
both your campaign and the Spencer Pratt campaign for the
Mayor's office in LA that that one thing, a common
thread that runs between the two of them is why
(23:16):
leave the people who mess everything up still? Why leave
them in charge? And also why not have people who
are just promising to fix the things that the people
of California want fixed. It feels like that's the mental
hurdle that we just need enough voters to get beyond.
Speaker 5 (23:32):
Exactly and just to believe that change is possible, that
we just to just to say we don't have to
live like this, We do not have to put up
with this. The choice is in our hands with our
votes today. And what's really interesting, Spencer's very different character.
In many ways. I know him a little bit. I
endorsed him, We actually both. I spoke at the same
event where he announced his candidacy on January the seventh,
(23:54):
the one year anniversary of the five that they let
us burn rally. He's very different, different race. It's non
partisan in the LA Mayor's race. I'm running as a Republican.
But here's the similarity. We are both outsiders. Neither of
us have run for office before, and we're not afraid
to just tell the truth about this totally broken, corrupt,
failed system in LA and across California, and you see
(24:15):
the results all around us, and so we've just got
to tell the truth about that. And honestly, for these
Democrats sometimes I even wonder how they have the nerve
to ask for another four years in power. They've had
sixteen years of total control of California, all the state
wide offices, that both chambers in the Legislature with the
two thirds majority, all the major cities, all the major counties,
(24:38):
the state Supreme Court with a six' to one. Majority
they've had sixteen years of total control to show us
that this progressive model of governance, works and they've had totally.
Failed we have the highest poverty rate in the, country
the highest unemployment, rate the highest cost of living by,
far ranked fifty out of fifty for opportunity BY Us
(24:59):
news and W Old, report fiftieth out of fifty states
for business climate By Chief Executive. Magazine we have the
highest taxes in the country for the worst. Results the
education results are a, disaster, homelessness rampant, crime and chaos.
Everywhere the cities are a total like third World scholler
in our great. Cities and it's not Just, la it's
right across the. STATE i, mean they've completely, Failed but
(25:21):
how dare they ask for another four? Years how you
don't deserve another four? Minutes and we've just got to
have people who are representing common sense. Change that's the
other thing about our. Campaigns they're not, divisive they're not.
Ideological what AM i running? On your first one hundred
grand tax, free three dollar, gas cut your electric bills in,
half a home you're can afford to, buy cut your,
costs help your, business fix our. Schools just practical things
(25:45):
that make life. Better Because californy has got everything we.
Need amazing natural, beauty incredible, people the best, weather, talent, energy.
Innovators we got everything we. Need we're going to have
unlimited natural, resources oil and, gas, water everything we. Need
accept a good governor and once we have, that all
we got to do is get out the way And
(26:05):
california will thrive like you've never seen.
Speaker 1 (26:07):
Before what will the results of the primary tell? YOU
i think you're going to be advancing into the final.
TWO i Think Spencer pratt will as well in order
to get into the. General AND i know the primary is.
Today we want everybody to go. Vote we want you
into that final too. Tomorrow in, theory you pivot and
it becomes a general. Election how many persuadable voters do
(26:32):
you think there are In? California Because california has voted overwhelmingly.
Blue the analogy we've used on this program Is juliani
And bloomberg got elected In New York city because people
were fed up with the status quo with Traditional. Democrats,
california potentially With Spencer, pratt potentially with you is finally
saying as part of your, candidacies, hey the old blue
(26:55):
ways don't make. Sense let's just bring in some. Sanity
how many persuadable do you think there are in the.
Speaker 5 (27:01):
General, Well i'm going to give you a real. Number
this is a poll that The California post commissioned and
published just at the end of last. Week fifty six
that's the number who say the state's going in the wrong.
Direction that's and that's a, majority AND i think that's the.
Group it's more than we. Need we just be fifty
percent plus. One BUT i think that's where you, start
(27:23):
and that is really what this is. About it's, saying
we really can change is, possible but you're not going
to get it if you keep voting the same. Way
and so actually a big theme of the general election,
campaign which as we plan to, do starts, tomorrow is
just those two simple, words vote. Different you've got to
stop voting the same way and think you're going to
(27:45):
get a different. Result we've tried that now for a
very long time In california and it hasn't. WORKED i,
mean you Still Gavin newson last time in his re
election campaign acknowledging he'd failed to solve, homelessness failed to
deal with the housing, crisis to reduce the bloat and,
bureaucracy and they go all these things he were saying
and made all these, promises none of them have been.
Delivered everything's got. Worse housing costs are, higher gas prices are.
(28:09):
Higher the homelessness is more than it. Was you, know
it's even though we've spent tens of billions of dollars on,
homelessness and in, fact we estimate four hundred and twenty
five billion dollars in, fraud waste and abused in the
last five years In. California so they're, Done.
Speaker 2 (28:25):
Steve steve CAN i CAN i jump in With we
know that it's a.
Speaker 3 (28:29):
Disaster as you're outlining the previous or the up to this,
point the recent, governor the the you know what's going
On Los Angeles. County but you hit on three things
there THAT i think go to not only critical issues For,
california but in other Misgoverned blue. States these tend to
be problems as well. Well certainly housing gas right, Now
(28:52):
blue states tend to have higher prices depends and then
homelessness depends on Which blue. State but a place Like
New york certainly has a lot of those challenges.
Speaker 2 (28:58):
Too but what are.
Speaker 3 (28:59):
Your in in shorthand how do you actually make those
three things?
Speaker 2 (29:05):
Better as governor In. California, Well i'll deal with the.
Speaker 5 (29:08):
Specifics on. Gas you, know my target is three dollar.
Gas that's the pledge That i've. Made we're going to
try and get to three dollar, gas and people that
are how you going to do? That it's so? High, now,
yeah that's, Right but before The Iran war in forty
four zero states In, america gas was three dollars or.
Less most of them don't have oil. Reserves we have
(29:28):
abundant oil serves right here In, california but because of
their insane climate, policy we're importing it eighty percent nearly
of our oil is now. Imported that's what we can.
Change and by the, WAY i can do that directly
through the executive, branch through the state, agencies not needing
the legislature to do, that even if it's A democrat,
LEGISLATURE i can make that. Happen that's the starting. Point
(29:48):
instead of the cost and idiocy of shipping in, oil
we'll use our. Own then there's a whole bunch of
climate regulation that we can roll back and start to
get back, to because most of the two dollars or
more increase in gas prices In california compared to the
rest of the country is not actually The Gas. Tact
that's about sixty odd cents of. It most of it
is these regulations that we can. Change in terms of,
(30:10):
homelessness is very. Straightforward we've got a number one enforced the.
Law these homeless campments are, Illegal they've always been, illegal
but they've refused to actually remove them by some misguided
notion of. Compassion how compassion is it to let people
live in those. Conditions so my starting point will be
to say to local politicians are getting with a certain
amount of time between three and six, months to say
(30:32):
you've got to clean it up all of, it not
some you know usems bragging about a nine percent, reduction
which is which is bs, anyway if you look at the, Data,
no it needs to be one hundred percent. Reduction you
don't see this in other. States you don't see it
in other. Countries it's totally avoidable if you just start
by that principle of we going to enforced the. Law
by the, way it's exactly What Spensive practice saying IN.
(30:54):
La he's making the same, point and so that the
next step is to get people into drug and. Alcohol
we have because eighty percent of people who are homeless
have those problems and mental health. Services and the money's
there for, that because we've seen the billions that has
gone into what they call the homeless industrial, complex all
these useless nonprofits doing nothing except keeping themselves in, business
and crony developers who are selling these apartment units to
(31:17):
the government for about a million dollars, each which are
just they put people in there who addicted to, fentanel
nothing ever. Happens so we've got the resources to do.
It Spencer praht's plan is basically the same as. MINE
i THINK La if he, wins AS i very much
hope and think he, will then well that's one CITY
i can check off my list because he's going to
(31:38):
get it done. THERE i want to make a broader, point,
though which is the foundation of all this is a strong,
economy and actually the main MISSION i think for me
is going to be rescuing our. Economy we're heading for real.
Disasters so many business leaders That i've met in the
last year or so have said to, me we're just
waiting for your, election and if you don't make, it
we are. Out the exodus that we've seen so far
(31:59):
is going to be a dampede if we have another
four years Of democrat. Rule and this state is in real,
trouble and so we've got to turn that. Around we
made an estimate last week we published this that the
total cost of the bloated regulatory nanny state bureaucracy In
california on our, economy it's seven hundred and forty five
billion dollars a year in economic. Cost if we cut that,
(32:20):
out Then california would become not just we're now the
fourth biggest, economy we'd be the third biggest economy in the.
World if we just cut out all the. Nonsense that's
what we've got to do to start getting businesses back,
here so we create the, jobs so we don't have
the highest unemployment in the country and good paying jobs
so we don't have the highest poverty in the. Country
so the economic crisis is something that's very much top
(32:42):
of my.
Speaker 1 (32:43):
List Steve, elton last question for. You from eighteen fifty
to twenty, twenty to your, Point california gain population every.
Year starting in twenty, twenty the population began to. Decline
that needs to be. Fixed Jade vance just endorsed. YOU
i just saw on social Media President trump has endorsed.
You last, question what is the impact of The Trump
(33:05):
vance endorsement on primary day?
Speaker 5 (33:07):
Here it's huge because it will tell everyone who wants,
change but Particularly republican voters because it's a primary and
typically it's the it's people who are the more committed
partisans who vote in. Primaries you've got to get this
done because what that means is that you're going to
have a partner for the administration who are wanting to
make common sense change. Happen The president wants to open
(33:30):
up energy, production so DO. I newsom is blocking. It
The vice president is heading his fraud task for was
trying to save taxpayer money In, california so DO, i
But newsom is blocking. It it's going to be a
new day when you have a governor In, california in
our biggest, state actually working with the administration to make
common sense change to. Happen it's going to benefit everyone
(33:51):
In california but our whole country as. Well but it
won't happen unless people go and vote for. It and
you've got to do that.
Speaker 2 (33:57):
Today go, Vote, Californians go vot.
Speaker 3 (34:00):
Vote even if it takes a week or a month
for these votes to be counted because of the dysfunction.
Speaker 2 (34:04):
There you got to go vote.
Speaker 3 (34:05):
Today go vote for a, Man Steve hilton for, governor And,
steve we are pulling for. You we're counting on, you
or we're you, know what's the Word i'm looking not
counting on. You what's the Word i'm looking?
Speaker 1 (34:17):
For, oh we're looking forward to celebrating your advancement to
the final. Two do you expect to find out tonight
or do you think this thing is going to drag
on for?
Speaker 5 (34:25):
Weeks by the, way we, think we think that there's
a strong chance that will get a sense that we've done. It.
YEAH i don't want to put a number on, it
but we think it's possible that tonight will know not for,
certain it won't be, confirmed but we'll have a very
good sense of. It we think that's.
Speaker 3 (34:41):
Possible maybe no vote For Steve, Hilton, californians go get it, Done.
Speaker 2 (34:44):
Steve best of, luck we'll talk to you. Soon thank.
Speaker 3 (34:47):
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Speaker 1 (35:36):
Keeping it, real keeping it, right Claian. Buck find them
on the iheartapp or wherever you get your. Podcasts welcome
back In Steve hilton on with. Us thank you for.
That jason and San antonio has been. Way you can
bet waiting a, While jason fire.
Speaker 7 (35:52):
Away hey, guys how's it going?
Speaker 1 (35:56):
FANTASTIC i had a great.
Speaker 7 (35:59):
Idea for the both of you that you don't have
to do a voice or. Anything but if you were
in charge of the speech That Kamala harrison would have
given to celebrate the fourth Of, JULY i think both
you could come up with some hilarious stuff two or three.
Minutes it would be. Hilarious it would have to start
with the land acknowledgment for the.
Speaker 2 (36:20):
Displace, well, no.
Speaker 3 (36:21):
No kamala would start off by telling everybody two hundred
and fifty years Of america unburdened by The america that has.
Speaker 1 (36:30):
Been OH i thank The lord that we don't have
to deal with, that although she's gonna be the nominee
in twenty twenty, eight so we may have to worry about.
Speaker 2 (36:38):
It, Nine i'm just gonna keep saying you're.
Speaker 3 (36:40):
CRAZY i don't even care if you're, right because that's
such a crazy idea THAT i just can't allow.
Speaker 2 (36:45):
IT i can't process.
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