In this episode, Tudor sits down with Steve Hilton to break down how decades of Democrat dominance have driven California into decline—from skyrocketing homelessness and stifling regulations to election integrity concerns and failed disaster recovery. Hilton explains why California’s collapse is a warning for the rest of America and outlines how conservatives can fight back, rebuild communities, and make the Golden State thrive again. They also discuss the growing influence of women in politics and why grassroots Republican engagement is key to real change. The Tudor Dixon Podcast is part of the Clay Travis & Buck Sexton Podcast Network. For more visit TudorDixonPodcast.com
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Welcome to the Tutor Dixon Podcast. Well, as the world
is being reshapen by redistricting and everything else that's going
on across the country, and we see the hostages coming home,
and we're so excited about what's happening in Washington, d C.
With President Trump. We still have this state that some
people said would one day fall into the ocean, but
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it is a huge state and it's very important to us,
and we have big hope this year that California is
going to get it together and come out and vote
for a Republican governor. So we have Steve Hilton with us.
Thank you so much for joining the Tutor Dixon Podcast.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
Oh jud it's so fantastic to be with you. I
really really loved your campaign. I followed that so closely
with you, and I feel in spirit we're on the
same kind of journey trying to bring sanity to our state.
It's crazy, but we got to go for it, right,
That's how we feel.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
You and I absolutely and as I'm so, I try
to do a little recent on California because it's different
out there. It's different than it is in most other states.
First of all, you have ballot harvesting, which most people
think is illegal, but California it's actually legal. You guys
legalize this in I think twenty sixteen, so people can
(01:17):
actually go door to door gather at ballots and take
them in for someone else. That blows my mind. How
do you get past that?
Speaker 2 (01:25):
Well, you're right, and that's just just just one example
of the insality. Like, there are so many ways in
which the Democrats are this fifteen years now of one
party rule where they've controlled everything in California. They've had
the governor's seat, they've had all the state wide offices,
total control of the legislature with a supermajority, all the
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big cities, all the big counties. So it's been one
party rule and they get totally corrupted by power, and
that's what's happened. So year after year they've been mucking
around with our elections. And so, yes, you've got ballot harvesting,
just like you assume. When I first heard that term,
I thought that's got to be a joke. If that
was real, they would never give it such a corrupt
(02:08):
sounding name. What are you talking about? Ballot harvesting? You
got anyway, It is exactly right, you got that then
you have the early voting. I know we see that
all over the country now, but wait for this. You
can your ballot can come in seven days after the election, right,
and they do universal mail in voting, so everybody gets
sent a ballot in the mail, everyone on the voter rolls.
(02:30):
The voter rolls that the last count is coming down.
With some great action by some friends and supporters of mine,
we're cleaning up the voter rolls. Not that long ago,
you had five million people on the voter rolls who
shouldn't have been, and so they all get sent ballots
so that they're sitting there ballots. Literally. You have stories
of people, you know, I have like ten ballots in
my house in the hallway. Push through the mail, dead people,
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people who've left the state. Of course, they can all
be harvested. You can send them in the mail. It
counts as long as it's postmarked for election day. You
have seven days after election e fort to be counted.
Then you don't get the results for a month afterwards,
on and on. You know, it's so terrible, but here's
the point that we can't change any of that until
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we're actually elected. So my message always is just as
President Trump said with the presidential election last time, we've
got to make it too big to rig, swamp the vote.
The only response here is, we got to do it too,
and we got to do it better than them. So
let's get out and we do our own harvesting, and
we make sure that our votes get in early and accounted.
(03:33):
So that's what I'm saying all the time. And I
think that, you know, people really have understood that that
we've got to win with this system before we get
to change it.
Speaker 1 (03:42):
That's what I was going to say. I mean exactly
your words what the President was saying, too big to rig,
that's what he accomplished. That when you heard so much
about all of these ground games, that was critical, but
in California so much more so because of what we
just talked about. So how do you recruit those people?
How do you bring people in? Because the Democrats have
done it, they've been very successful doing it. I don't
(04:03):
believe for a second that they have organically won these elections.
And I think the people of California are very fed up.
I know Rick Renelle has worked out in California very
hard to get congressional seats. I think you can win.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
Yes, Well, let me just lay out I mean, you
know this, you know the numbers of what it's all about.
And so my argument is I've always said it's not
going to be easy to win, but it's not impossible.
And here's just a couple of the ingredients that I
think should give us that confidence. Number One, there's a
majority in California now pretty steady majority for the last
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at least two years, saying that we're going in the
wrong direction, the state's on the wrong track. In other words,
there's a majority for change in California, and it's quite
a size that it's over sixty percent. It's not a
small number, and so people know we need change. That's
the first point. Secondly, in the election's last year in
twenty twenty four to ten counties out of fifty eight
flipped from blue to red, including some big counties like
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fresh our fifth biggest city. Then you look at how
President Trump performed in California, the best result for any
presidential nominee from the Republican side for a generation. Didn't
really even campaign here. And then you look at the numbers,
and this is the really important point, exactly to your
point about turnout. So Next year, obviously is a midterm
election and typically you get a lower turnout, But we
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can change the turnout if we do our job right.
And when people say there aren't enough Republican votes in California,
I point them to the numbers. So last year was
a presidential year, but if you take the last two
midterm years to get an estimate of what the vote
will be next year, the total number of votes we
expect in California eleven point eight million, so to win
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you need five point nine million. Roughly had just over half.
President Trump last year got six point one million votes
in California. So the Republican votes are there. We just
need to go and make sure they turn out and
vote for governor for chat. And there's one final ingredient
that should give us optimism. There's a ballot initiative that
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we are collecting signatures for right now in California to
get voter ID on the ballot for next November. If
we had that Republicans Love Vote TRID, that will be
hugely helpful for increasing Republican turnout. So if we have
a great campaign, a good ground game, all those things
make sure our voters turn out, we can absolutely do
(06:25):
this next year.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
Absolutely, and you go to California. I was in California
about a year ago and I thought to myself, it
is so incredibly beautiful here. How are they not wanting
to preserve this? And I was in the Malibu area,
where now I know there was a lot of decimation
from the fire and everything that went on there. We're
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looking at from the middle of the country here in
the Midwest, we're looking out of California, and we think,
after you've suffered these tragedies and what we see with
the homeless population in San Francisco and LA and the
dirty streets, it's just not the beautiful California that it
was in so many of these areas. There's got to
(07:08):
be a lot of motivation to change that.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
Yes, exactly. I mean that's the theme of my campaign.
I mean, the slogan of my campaign is Golden Again. Right,
Let's make California golden again. It's the Golden state. Everyone. Look,
I've moved here in twenty twelve with my wife and
my two sons from England. Became an American in twenty
twenty one, so I've been here thirteen years. Even in
the years that i've been here, the decline has been
so evident. I mean it's been going on a long time.
(07:32):
It's fifteen years now of one party rule, and really
you've had a very little interruption. They've had the state
legislature for nearly thirty years. And so the piling on
of ridiculous regulations and taxes, everything that makes it so
impossible to do anything here, combined with the ideological extremism,
that's what's led to the explosion in homelessness and crime
(07:56):
and chaos and the squalor as you say that, just
the dirt and the squala and the stink. Honestly, it's
disgusting you. I mean, I'm offening downtown Los Angeles and
you just walk around and it stinks. I'm sorry to say,
what are you talking about? This? Right?
Speaker 1 (08:14):
And it's mean to allow that. I think that's what people,
the average person is now understanding, to have people force
people out on the streets, to not have billions of dollars,
I mean, they have hundreds of millions of dollars dedicated
to homelessness, and yet there is no solution for homelessness.
Once you create a gut, right, well, they don't want
(08:34):
to give up the hundreds of millions of dollars all
these people are getting paid. Now, that's not government works.
There needs to be someone who's going to go in
there and say, come on, where's your heart, where's your kindness?
When are you going to start caring about the people
who are drug addicted. They have real problems. They're on
the streets and they're causing real problems for the rest
of the people in the city. I mean, there is
(08:54):
a solution here, it's just that it doesn't want to
be taken.
Speaker 2 (08:59):
You're so right. That's how I argue it the whole time.
I said, look, we would never accept someone we love
living in those conditions. We'd want to do something about
it urgently. We'd get them out of that situation. We'd
get them the help that they need. But these Democrats
who've been in charge, I use this, I talk about
it this way the whole time. It's so cruel and heartless,
and it's ideologicals Oh, we can't you know. There's a
(09:22):
law that was passed twenty six sixteen called Housing First,
which is that any organization working with homeless people to
provide shelter, accommodation, whatever, you cannot require any kind of
behavior change in response, you can't require sobriety, you can't
get of drugs, you can't get them into mental health
children just no, it's just insane. And then actually that
(09:45):
cruelty that you talk about and the heartlessness, I think
that is the story of these ideologues more generally, because
if you look at these obviously homelessness, crime, the things
we've been talking about, those are very visible signs of
California's client But actually, when you look at what's going
on across the board every single day for regular working
people and families and small business in California, everything's a disaster.
(10:09):
We literally right now have the highest unemployment rate in America,
the highest poverty rate in America, the highest taxes, highest
costs for gas, electric bills are the highest in the country,
the worst business climate. Insurance is a nightmare. A lot
of people can't even get insurance because the industry has
been so assaulted by these.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
Insane regulars across the border.
Speaker 2 (10:30):
Well, then you're fine, and I'm in no joke. I mean, no,
people can't afford.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
Well, I wish that were a joke, but that's not
a joke.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
So you can't beat regular working people in California cannot
afford healthcare. Community hospitals are closing. I see this all
the time. I'm on the road the whole time. And
guess what they keep increasing and again they've increased it
from last year's budget to next year's budget, spec taxpayer
spending for free healthcare for illegal immigrants. And now you
have in Los Angeles just now, biggest county in the country,
(11:02):
ten million people's huge county. It's about twenty three percent
of California's population. And you've got the Board of Supervisors.
They're just voted this week for what they called an
immigration emergency to give taxpayer hand at rent, but to
pay the rent of illegal immigrants who are effectisy by
(11:22):
the president's deportation. And you just think the whole We
have the highest house that's another thing. We have the
highest housing costs in the country, highest rent, highest home prices, everything.
So you've got again regular working people who can't who
can barely afford the rent because of the housing crisis.
Why do we have a housing crisis in part because
you've had millions of illegal immigrants coming in, so there's
(11:43):
not enough housing to cope, so that's pushed up the
cost of housing. Regular people can't pay that. So what
are the Democrats do? They take more money out of
their taxes and hand it out free rent to illegal
immigrants who shouldn't even be here. I mean, whose side
are they on? This is why I think we're going
to get changed next year.
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thing I think that people don't see enough. I think
they saw just a glimpse of it with the fire.
They saw the Palisades fire and they went, oh, my gosh,
(13:28):
these people are homeless now. They had these beautiful homes.
They can't rebuild. Then the President went there, he brought
a lot of attention to the fact that these people
can't even rebuild because of your stupid regulations, because government
is so in the business of the average person that
if you lose your house in a tragedy, you are
not allowed to rebuild it for years. And it's still
(13:50):
to me, it's still not getting enough media attention that
this is still happening. These people still they have and
they have mortgages. That's the thing. People don't understand. Your
mortgage doesn't go away because you're home burned down, you
have a mortgage, you have no place to live, and
you can't rebuilds.
Speaker 2 (14:06):
So offensive, and again the way you put it is
so right. It's just heartless because it's this bureaucratic mindset.
So you look at some of the numbers. Now Malibu
where you mentioned Malibu, six hundred homes burned, two permits
have been issued. Two ridiculous the rebuilding. If you look
at all the burned areas, it's under ten percent of
the number of homes burnt permits issued. And it really
(14:28):
gets to the heart of why these democrats are so
utterly useless. I'll just give you this quote from Karen Bassiet.
It just tells you so much about how these people think.
A few months ago, now, maybe four or five months ago,
she did. But by the way, days after the fires,
she sat there at that amazing press conference with the president,
and the president exactly just said what you said, like
(14:50):
people just they could go back tomorrow, they could clear
their own plan. What's the delay, And she said, we'll
get clear out the obstacles. There'll be no delay, she
said to the president. Right months later, nothing had happened.
So she makes an announcement. I saw it and social
media her posts said these words, I Caen bass, I
have just signed an executive order streamlining permitting so people
(15:11):
can rebuild in LA and thought, okay, that's good. Months late,
but whatever. But there was a video underneath of her
actual actual announcement of the prescon, so I thought, I'll
watch what she said. This is what she actually said.
I have just signed an executive order tasking agency heads
with developing paths forward to streamlining permitting. He's like, what
(15:33):
is that? That's nothing. That's total bureaucratic BS. Nothing's going
to happen, No change, is just some BS process that
she's set up.
Speaker 1 (15:45):
I'll tell you ensure what I hear.
Speaker 2 (15:47):
Sorry, just what you know. People I speak to her
the day they said they go to the building department.
The building department says, you've got to go to that department.
You've got to get your insurance. They go to insurance,
they say you need a permit before we get It's
just nightmare for people.
Speaker 1 (16:01):
I mean a very similar situation in Michigan when our
reading scores went way down. The governor comes out and says,
I'm going to form a committee to figure out how
to get the reading scores up. A committee, I mean
that government forming a committee is the worst thing that
can ever happen because it's just a I'm not it's
a press release. That's all it is.
Speaker 3 (16:22):
It is.
Speaker 1 (16:23):
I hope the American people have figured out that when
Democrats put out a press release, that's where it starts
and that's where it ends. It was just to get attention.
I mean the same thing with bringing businesses in and
you talk, I mean, you're in a very similar situation
to Michigan. You talk about the fact that you have
high gas prices, high energy prices. You have also a
situation where you have a massive, out of control a
(16:46):
llegal immigrant problem because you're right there, you're right there
at the border and the governor has said come here
and you'll be safe and we'll pay for you. So
you have an out of control tax problem.
Speaker 2 (16:59):
Exactly again, the highest taxes in the country. Here's another.
I mean, you you know I take all the you
know you and I we do our homework, right So,
and I've got a business background. Most of my people
know me from Fox, but most of my career has
been in business. I've worked all over the world and
business started my own companies, including here in California. I
ran restaurants in England. That is a tough business. So
(17:20):
I know about budgets. You know, you look at the
budget of the state of California. In the last ten years,
they've doubled, the budget doubled, and everything's worse. You think
these people have no clue how to run anything properly.
There's no folk that exactly as you said, the don't.
They don't. They're not even interested in results and outcomes
(17:41):
and did that happen and what happened to that money?
And why didn't it work? Now, none of that, It
is just the press release making the announcement.
Speaker 1 (17:49):
I was just watching this all interview of Gavin Newsom
where he kind of blew up at the person who
was interviewing him because they were like, you know, as mayor,
you have a massive duffice it and he said, yeah,
it's a huge deficit. You know, that's a thing. And
I think Democrats are so used to just getting away
with this. And I give the interview the interviewer credit
(18:10):
because he really pushed back on him and he had
just dropped out of the race. For governor at that point.
This was years ago, and he was kind of like
had his tail between his legs and was sulking. But
that's another thing that a Republican can never get away with.
You can't get away with being a smart alec and
telling off the interviewer. But your opponent recently thought that
(18:31):
she could. So I want to play the clip for
people in case you missed it. Because Katie Porter is
she's currently leading. I think that is that's rapidly that
lead is rapidly going away. I noticed that I was
looking at the polls from July to August to September,
she has gone down a couple points every single time.
(18:51):
You're going up in the polls. I think she thinks
she's an interesting character because I think she thinks, well,
I will go up against Steve Hilton. What will happen
is that it will be that I won't. The Republicans
are fewer, like you said that myth that the Republicans
there's not as many votes, so I want him there.
(19:12):
And the interviewer asked her what are you going to
do to get those votes? And she was like appalled.
So I want to play this for you so that people.
If you missed it, you can hear. This is what
the opponent is like here, it is do.
Speaker 3 (19:24):
You think you need any of those forty percent of
California voters to win? And you're saying no, you don't.
Speaker 4 (19:29):
No, I'm saying I'm going to try to win every
vote I can. And what I'm saying to you is
that well to those voters.
Speaker 3 (19:35):
Okay, so I don't want to keep doing this.
Speaker 4 (19:37):
I'm going to call it. Oh thank you.
Speaker 3 (19:41):
You're not going to do the interview with them?
Speaker 4 (19:43):
Nope, not like this. I'm not not with seven follow
ups to every single question you ask.
Speaker 3 (19:47):
Every other candidate has a I don't care.
Speaker 4 (19:50):
I don't care. I want to have a pleasant, positive
conversation which you asked me about every issue on this list.
And if every question you're going to make up a
follow up question, then we're never going to get there
and we're just.
Speaker 3 (20:01):
Going to circle around.
Speaker 4 (20:02):
And I had to do this before ever you've never
had had an animation.
Speaker 3 (20:10):
Okay, but every other candidate has done this.
Speaker 4 (20:12):
What part of I'm me? I'm running for governor because
I'm a leader. I don't want to have an unhappy
experience for the you and I don't want this all
on camera.
Speaker 3 (20:21):
I don't want to have an unhappy experience with you either.
Speaker 1 (20:23):
I love this for so many reasons because every crazy
lib that, every crazy lib woman that puts out a
video in her car is has this exact emotion. I
don't want to have an unhappy time like I need
a safe space right now. How how could you possibly
sit down and negotiate businesses to come into this state?
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How could you possibly concentrate on a solution for homelessness?
That's an unhappy situation for Katie Porter.
Speaker 2 (20:50):
I bet it's amazing. Actually it's it's so funny. It's
not more than a week and it never gets old.
I've seen that so many times. By the way, there's
every we made this video. I had great pleasure writing
writing it, just editing it out where she said, I,
you know, seven follow up questions as that. I here
are seven follow up questions, Katie Porter. Number one, why
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do we have the highest unemployment rate in America? Why
do we have the highest poverty? Anyway, we we spliced
it together very it was fun. But look the attitude
that you see you see there, that's the attitude of
these of all of them. Actually, this entitled arrogant attitude.
How dare you ask me questions? No consequences ever for
(21:32):
their failures, No accountability, even the idea of accountability is
offensive to them, Like, how dare you question me? That's
what you get with this one party rule, this arrogant
razulo ruling elite, that's what you get.
Speaker 1 (21:48):
She'd And the funny thing is that, like the real
takeaway from that interview to me is that she makes
it very clear, I don't care at all about those
people that's half her state. She doesn't care about them.
Speaker 2 (22:04):
It's exactly right. And to your point, even you know,
if further in the interview she's talking about, well, they'll
be a Republican, and they assume that a Republican can't win,
so who cares? And that's why you've they've gone so extreme,
actually because they just don't think they're ever going to
get a challenge from the other side, and so it's
entirely about pandering to the people who really pull the
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strings in the Democratic Party in California, the unions, the
far left activist groups. By the way, I don't know
if you saw there was another one this week, Betty Yee,
I don't know if you saw this one, it was
an oh my okay, let me just so she's also
running for governor. She's like weighed down, as you say,
in the polls. It's basically most of the polls show
me and Katie Porter is the top two. And we
(22:47):
have this top two jungle primary system, so that's the
top two go forward, whoever, whichever party they're from. Anyway,
there's a bunch of other Democrats who aren't doing at
all well, and one of them is Betty Yee elected.
She's currently the state controller and she was on We
were both on Piers Morgan and to talk about Katie Porter,
(23:07):
and Betty is called on Katie Porter to drop out
of the race because of this terrible interview. Anyway, Piers
Morgan happened to know Katie Porter because they did Bill
Maher together. So to his audience, he plays a clip
of him and Katie Porter on Bill Maher and it
happened to be about the issue of trans athletes, and
so he plays this clip, goes to Betty just out
(23:29):
of interest, what's your It wasn't a tough question, where
do you stand on that issue? And so she immediately
gave the ridiculous kind of woke. Well, I think there
should be equal opportunity, fairness, blah blah blah, you know,
and he kind of passed. He said, okay, so you're
saying that you think it's okay for biological men to
compete with and she just obviously had never had to
(23:51):
really defend that position, and so she just recited the
nonsense talking points. But he wouldn't let it go and
he said, okay, so you're going to be you want
to be the governor of during the LA Olympics in
twenty twenty eight. Are you telling me that you think
that biological men should compete in the Olympics against women
in LA? And she said, well, I do think that
trans women athletes are women, and yes, of course, and
(24:14):
then he goes, so, which sports do you think, apart
from maybe archery, which sports do you think that would
be okay for? And she says maybe probably track and field.
He's track and field? What are you talking about? First, No,
it's insane. It's just as much of a car cross
as Casey forught it. And then he said, like, okay,
what examples? What do you mean and she says, well,
you know, the shorter races. He said, what like the
(24:38):
one hundred meters you think that you saying? And she
said yes and said, so what you're telling me, Betty
is that you would like to have a gender neutral Olympics.
She literally said, there, yes, I think that's what you know.
We should yes a gender neutral Olympics for la Wow.
And this is I mean, only someone who's just totally
(25:01):
uninterested in the views of normal people only and her
constituents only cares about pandering to the activists who really
control the party, would say such a thing. But that's
who they are these days in California.
Speaker 1 (25:15):
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is going to be so fun for you. And I
say that because they have never been asked questions before,
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and I think I just sort of have this sneaking
suspicion that Kamala ruined that for them, that they had
the media wrapped around their little finger and they would
do whatever they wanted and they didn't get follow ups.
But let me tell you, and you've probably experienced the
same thing when I was running. I think it was
an NBC reporter. I don't know if you were there
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asking Sarah. I don't think you were on the campaign yet.
We had this NBC reporter who stood out. She tried
to get into an event that we were in and
they wouldn't let her into the event. I mean, it
wasn't open to media, they wouldn't let her into the event.
She stood outside, knocked on the windows and said answer
my questions, Answer my questions. Finally, when the event was over,
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we said there was no door we could go out.
She had a cameraman at one door. There were like
three doors to the building. They had someone posted it
every door. They were not going to let us leave
without like physically grabbing us and making us do an interview.
And so we finally said, you know what, We'll do it.
But you're coming in and you're sitting down, and you're
going to set up appropriately. This isn't going to be
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like a gotcha interview. We'll sit down with you. Can
you imagine them doing that to a democrat. I mean,
Katie Porlo would just lose her mind exactly. They've never
had that. It's exactly right.
Speaker 2 (29:26):
And the press in California, the media in California just
they assume that these people are going to be in
charge forever. So it's exactly that total complicit attitude. But
you're right, it is changing, It is changing, and I
think that's right. They saw with kam Laus. Oh my gosh,
this was the consequence when we didn't put someone put
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through their pieces.
Speaker 1 (29:48):
That has been one of the things that I it's
kind of like a bittersweet situation because I do feel
like it is now you finally are forcing these women
in the Democrat Party to sit down. And you know,
and Whimer had the same thing. I mean, she's never
really sat down for an interview. She's had very easy
MSNBC interviews where they just coddle her and you know,
cut a lauristic A bottle in her mouth. She's great,
(30:11):
but they've never actually tortured her at all. And I
think that's going to change. I say it's bittersweet because
I think that Kamala Harris made women look really idiotic,
her stumbling over her words, saying she washes her vegetables
in the bathtub, all of these bananas things that I
was like, oh my gosh, this is not who we are.
(30:31):
You know, like you watch it as a woman and
you're like, no, no, stop saying these stupid things.
Speaker 2 (30:37):
I know, I've always said that, that's why, you know,
like and and they always go to sexism and blame
sexism when they've you know, Hillary did it and Karmala
does it, and you just think it's so insulting. Look
all the fantastic conservative women leaders that have been elected
all over the world. You know in my home and
you in the UK Margaret Thatcher, of course, and you know,
(30:57):
there's so many examples and you you know, and it's
just it's so pathetic that when they have terrible candidates
who happen to be women, they say, of course it's sexism. No,
it's because they're useless.
Speaker 1 (31:09):
Oh that you know. We were just actually recently talking
about this though here in our little group of what
Republican women have been lifted up as great leaders in
this country. I mean, first of all, there have been few,
because I think it's been it's taken longer for the
Republican Party to bring women in and bring women in
at a higher number. But also it's very hard for
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Republican women to be taken seriously on channels like MSNBC
and CNN and just in general. And then you get
these Democrat women who, I mean, let's face it, Kamala
Harris was always kind of pushed up as that DEI candidate.
And no, people don't like to hear that, but there
is when the President of the United States chooses you
for vice president and then has to step out of
(31:53):
the next race and doesn't automatically say, obviously, my vice president,
it's the choice. Then everybody knows you were only put
there for one reason, and it's not because you can
lead the country.
Speaker 2 (32:04):
He said. I mean, he said to himself, he said,
I'm going to pick a black woman first. It was
a woman. He made that pledge, and then he had
he said, to be a black woman. So's you can't
argue with that. He said it right.
Speaker 1 (32:15):
And it may and it hurts that And I think
that was the point that so many conservatives were making,
and and maybe not as eloquently as they should have,
But the point is when you don't hire there is
no reason that he couldn't have found an actually qualified
black woman who could have spoken if that was really
his choice. Well, there are plenty, but he went for
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the person that would get the donors and all of that,
but had no ability to actually talk. But when you're
not hiring someone because you think they're the best person
to sit beside you, to be your right hand man
or your right hand woman, then you are hurting women.
You are hurting minorities. And that's what they do on
a regular basis.
Speaker 2 (32:58):
Exactly because identity is everything to them. Yes, and you
still see it now, just the way they talk. You know,
it's just so you know, it actually feels very old
fashioned because I think, you know, thanks to it is
just so. I think a huge refreshing change happened with
the president's victory last year and the scale of it
and the popular vote and just throwing off this No,
(33:20):
we don't have to say that anyone, We don't have
to pretend anymore. But the most normal people, the vast
majority of the country, honestly, even if they didn't vote
for President Trump or not, Republicans have just I just
think there's this freedom, this likeness now that we don't
have to go along with this nonsense. But the Democrats,
the politicians, they're still stuck there. They're still talk like this.
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They haven't realized that the whole country has moved on.
Speaker 1 (33:43):
That's right, and that's why you ended up in that
situation with the men in women's sports and general. Suddenly
we go from that to gender neutral Olympics. I mean
this is they just keep doubling down on that, and
they're in that situation right now with this government shutdown
because Schumer is kind of being whole hostage by AOC,
and AOC is a radical and you see the mom Donnie.
(34:03):
I kind of loved that debate that we watched between
Mom Donnie and Cuomo and Slia because they were pushing
him like, you can't pay for this stuff, you can't
do this. And as even though I think that New
York is going to be lost in this election, I
think that helps you. Because California. I really believe that
the people of California, they are wealthy. They have these
(34:26):
beautiful communities that are being infiltrated by bad policies. You
can't I remember my aunt lived there and it was
like for her to build a room on her house,
you'd have to have God come down and sign off
on it. You know.
Speaker 2 (34:39):
It's like, oh, it's insane.
Speaker 1 (34:41):
The regulation is too much.
Speaker 2 (34:43):
The stories, I mean, there's so many stories. Everywhere I go,
you hear these stories. But just one day the other
day that is so believing. Everyone here believes it because
they experienced it. There was a lady that have a
very small independent winery in wine country in California, and
she wanted to increase. It's like, you know, just small,
not some lavish thing, and she wanted to She built
a new patio, extended the patio so she got more
(35:05):
visitors for the wine tastings and lunch and whatever. And
she I think it was an increase from a capacity
of thirty five to fifty people. So like, this is
not some giant thing. She said it took her six
years and a million dollars. I am, I know these
infection mental compliance that this that it's like, it's unbelievable
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how bad it is.
Speaker 1 (35:30):
I could tell you so many stories from Michigan. I mean,
we could honestly go on and on about this. I've
gone too long already. I will just say that one
example of this that we're seeing crop back up. Do
you remember this squirrel that was killed by Governor Hokeel
in New York City or in New York State because
it was Yes, So right now in Michigan, there's a
(35:53):
deer that a blind deer that has been rescued and
it's at a rescue center where they are keeping it
for educational purposes. They don't have the right permit for it,
and I think we have officially stopped it, but there
was a kill order from the DNR to go in
there and get rid of the steer. I mean, this
is the kind of government overreach that when people start
hearing about it, they go, wait, wait a minute, you
(36:16):
don't kill the family squirrel, like, you just don't do that.
That's when you start driving people crazy. But that is
what I Those are the little things. And I think
that the point of that is that when you see that,
they can go in and they can use the government
power to do that. And in Michigan they've shut down
a lot of pig farms and wild game sites and
everything by using these agencies. That's why the governor is
(36:39):
so important, because the governor has the ability to control
these agencies and reduce these regulations. These regulations that act
as laws should never happen. That's why what you're doing
is so critical. And you can save California. I will
just say also, when I was a kid, I remember
California Girls, the song. It was like you lived in
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the Midwest and California had this this aura about it,
Like we just thought California was the most amazing state
we had. We would tell people like, oh, we live
in the United States, we have California. You know, California
had this fantastic reputation and my cousins lived out there.
They were true California Girls surfers, every day, and all this,
(37:23):
all the movies, clueless, everything that was all but based
in California, you know, And and we loved California. There
was never this tainted view of California's dirty and disgusting.
And I know you will bring back that golden California
that you talk about, that is it.
Speaker 2 (37:39):
So tell us.
Speaker 1 (37:39):
Okay, So tell people, because you're gonna need money, you
need help.
Speaker 2 (37:42):
This is a peace you need to go up against.
Speaker 1 (37:45):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (37:46):
And also volunteers, because you know they've got this big
machine I call it the Democrat industrial complex, you know,
the especially the unions and the activists and the bureau,
they all and they've had it all their own way
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Speaker 1 (38:13):
And as I pointed out earlier, the army there is
more important than I think any other place because their
army can just grab ballots. We've got to send people
out there for you, so if you can go out
there and help. Steve Hilton, thank you so much for
coming on.
Speaker 2 (38:27):
Great to be with you and enjoyed it.
Speaker 1 (38:28):
Thank you absolutely, and thank you all for listening to
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us next time. Have a blessed day.
Welcome to the Tutor Dixon Podcast. Well, as the world
is being reshapen by redistricting and everything else that's going
on across the country, and we see the hostages coming home,
and we're so excited about what's happening in Washington, d C.
With President Trump. We still have this state that some
people said would one day fall into the ocean, but
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it is a huge state and it's very important to us,
and we have big hope this year that California is
going to get it together and come out and vote
for a Republican governor. So we have Steve Hilton with us.
Thank you so much for joining the Tutor Dixon Podcast.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
Oh jud it's so fantastic to be with you. I
really really loved your campaign. I followed that so closely
with you, and I feel in spirit we're on the
same kind of journey trying to bring sanity to our state.
It's crazy, but we got to go for it, right,
That's how we feel.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
You and I absolutely and as I'm so, I try
to do a little recent on California because it's different
out there. It's different than it is in most other states.
First of all, you have ballot harvesting, which most people
think is illegal, but California it's actually legal. You guys
legalize this in I think twenty sixteen, so people can
(01:17):
actually go door to door gather at ballots and take
them in for someone else. That blows my mind. How
do you get past that?
Speaker 2 (01:25):
Well, you're right, and that's just just just one example
of the insality. Like, there are so many ways in
which the Democrats are this fifteen years now of one
party rule where they've controlled everything in California. They've had
the governor's seat, they've had all the state wide offices,
total control of the legislature with a supermajority, all the
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big cities, all the big counties. So it's been one
party rule and they get totally corrupted by power, and
that's what's happened. So year after year they've been mucking
around with our elections. And so, yes, you've got ballot harvesting,
just like you assume. When I first heard that term,
I thought that's got to be a joke. If that
was real, they would never give it such a corrupt
(02:08):
sounding name. What are you talking about? Ballot harvesting? You
got anyway, It is exactly right, you got that then
you have the early voting. I know we see that
all over the country now, but wait for this. You
can your ballot can come in seven days after the election, right,
and they do universal mail in voting, so everybody gets
sent a ballot in the mail, everyone on the voter rolls.
(02:30):
The voter rolls that the last count is coming down.
With some great action by some friends and supporters of mine,
we're cleaning up the voter rolls. Not that long ago,
you had five million people on the voter rolls who
shouldn't have been, and so they all get sent ballots
so that they're sitting there ballots. Literally. You have stories
of people, you know, I have like ten ballots in
my house in the hallway. Push through the mail, dead people,
(02:52):
people who've left the state. Of course, they can all
be harvested. You can send them in the mail. It
counts as long as it's postmarked for election day. You
have seven days after election e fort to be counted.
Then you don't get the results for a month afterwards,
on and on. You know, it's so terrible, but here's
the point that we can't change any of that until
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we're actually elected. So my message always is just as
President Trump said with the presidential election last time, we've
got to make it too big to rig, swamp the vote.
The only response here is, we got to do it too,
and we got to do it better than them. So
let's get out and we do our own harvesting, and
we make sure that our votes get in early and accounted.
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So that's what I'm saying all the time. And I
think that, you know, people really have understood that that
we've got to win with this system before we get
to change it.
Speaker 1 (03:42):
That's what I was going to say. I mean exactly
your words what the President was saying, too big to rig,
that's what he accomplished. That when you heard so much
about all of these ground games, that was critical, but
in California so much more so because of what we
just talked about. So how do you recruit those people?
How do you bring people in? Because the Democrats have
done it, they've been very successful doing it. I don't
(04:03):
believe for a second that they have organically won these elections.
And I think the people of California are very fed up.
I know Rick Renelle has worked out in California very
hard to get congressional seats. I think you can win.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
Yes, Well, let me just lay out I mean, you
know this, you know the numbers of what it's all about.
And so my argument is I've always said it's not
going to be easy to win, but it's not impossible.
And here's just a couple of the ingredients that I
think should give us that confidence. Number One, there's a
majority in California now pretty steady majority for the last
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at least two years, saying that we're going in the
wrong direction, the state's on the wrong track. In other words,
there's a majority for change in California, and it's quite
a size that it's over sixty percent. It's not a
small number, and so people know we need change. That's
the first point. Secondly, in the election's last year in
twenty twenty four to ten counties out of fifty eight
flipped from blue to red, including some big counties like
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fresh our fifth biggest city. Then you look at how
President Trump performed in California, the best result for any
presidential nominee from the Republican side for a generation. Didn't
really even campaign here. And then you look at the numbers,
and this is the really important point, exactly to your
point about turnout. So Next year, obviously is a midterm
election and typically you get a lower turnout, But we
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can change the turnout if we do our job right.
And when people say there aren't enough Republican votes in California,
I point them to the numbers. So last year was
a presidential year, but if you take the last two
midterm years to get an estimate of what the vote
will be next year, the total number of votes we
expect in California eleven point eight million, so to win
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you need five point nine million. Roughly had just over half.
President Trump last year got six point one million votes
in California. So the Republican votes are there. We just
need to go and make sure they turn out and
vote for governor for chat. And there's one final ingredient
that should give us optimism. There's a ballot initiative that
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we are collecting signatures for right now in California to
get voter ID on the ballot for next November. If
we had that Republicans Love Vote TRID, that will be
hugely helpful for increasing Republican turnout. So if we have
a great campaign, a good ground game, all those things
make sure our voters turn out, we can absolutely do
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this next year.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
Absolutely, and you go to California. I was in California
about a year ago and I thought to myself, it
is so incredibly beautiful here. How are they not wanting
to preserve this? And I was in the Malibu area,
where now I know there was a lot of decimation
from the fire and everything that went on there. We're
(06:47):
looking at from the middle of the country here in
the Midwest, we're looking out of California, and we think,
after you've suffered these tragedies and what we see with
the homeless population in San Francisco and LA and the
dirty streets, it's just not the beautiful California that it
was in so many of these areas. There's got to
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be a lot of motivation to change that.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
Yes, exactly. I mean that's the theme of my campaign.
I mean, the slogan of my campaign is Golden Again. Right,
Let's make California golden again. It's the Golden state. Everyone. Look,
I've moved here in twenty twelve with my wife and
my two sons from England. Became an American in twenty
twenty one, so I've been here thirteen years. Even in
the years that i've been here, the decline has been
so evident. I mean it's been going on a long time.
(07:32):
It's fifteen years now of one party rule, and really
you've had a very little interruption. They've had the state
legislature for nearly thirty years. And so the piling on
of ridiculous regulations and taxes, everything that makes it so
impossible to do anything here, combined with the ideological extremism,
that's what's led to the explosion in homelessness and crime
(07:56):
and chaos and the squalor as you say that, just
the dirt and the squala and the stink. Honestly, it's
disgusting you. I mean, I'm offening downtown Los Angeles and
you just walk around and it stinks. I'm sorry to say,
what are you talking about? This? Right?
Speaker 1 (08:14):
And it's mean to allow that. I think that's what people,
the average person is now understanding, to have people force
people out on the streets, to not have billions of dollars,
I mean, they have hundreds of millions of dollars dedicated
to homelessness, and yet there is no solution for homelessness.
Once you create a gut, right, well, they don't want
(08:34):
to give up the hundreds of millions of dollars all
these people are getting paid. Now, that's not government works.
There needs to be someone who's going to go in
there and say, come on, where's your heart, where's your kindness?
When are you going to start caring about the people
who are drug addicted. They have real problems. They're on
the streets and they're causing real problems for the rest
of the people in the city. I mean, there is
(08:54):
a solution here, it's just that it doesn't want to
be taken.
Speaker 2 (08:59):
You're so right. That's how I argue it the whole time.
I said, look, we would never accept someone we love
living in those conditions. We'd want to do something about
it urgently. We'd get them out of that situation. We'd
get them the help that they need. But these Democrats
who've been in charge, I use this, I talk about
it this way the whole time. It's so cruel and heartless,
and it's ideologicals Oh, we can't you know. There's a
(09:22):
law that was passed twenty six sixteen called Housing First,
which is that any organization working with homeless people to
provide shelter, accommodation, whatever, you cannot require any kind of
behavior change in response, you can't require sobriety, you can't
get of drugs, you can't get them into mental health
children just no, it's just insane. And then actually that
(09:45):
cruelty that you talk about and the heartlessness, I think
that is the story of these ideologues more generally, because
if you look at these obviously homelessness, crime, the things
we've been talking about, those are very visible signs of
California's client But actually, when you look at what's going
on across the board every single day for regular working
people and families and small business in California, everything's a disaster.
(10:09):
We literally right now have the highest unemployment rate in America,
the highest poverty rate in America, the highest taxes, highest
costs for gas, electric bills are the highest in the country,
the worst business climate. Insurance is a nightmare. A lot
of people can't even get insurance because the industry has
been so assaulted by these.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
Insane regulars across the border.
Speaker 2 (10:30):
Well, then you're fine, and I'm in no joke. I mean, no,
people can't afford.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
Well, I wish that were a joke, but that's not
a joke.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
So you can't beat regular working people in California cannot
afford healthcare. Community hospitals are closing. I see this all
the time. I'm on the road the whole time. And
guess what they keep increasing and again they've increased it
from last year's budget to next year's budget, spec taxpayer
spending for free healthcare for illegal immigrants. And now you
have in Los Angeles just now, biggest county in the country,
(11:02):
ten million people's huge county. It's about twenty three percent
of California's population. And you've got the Board of Supervisors.
They're just voted this week for what they called an
immigration emergency to give taxpayer hand at rent, but to
pay the rent of illegal immigrants who are effectisy by
(11:22):
the president's deportation. And you just think the whole We
have the highest house that's another thing. We have the
highest housing costs in the country, highest rent, highest home prices, everything.
So you've got again regular working people who can't who
can barely afford the rent because of the housing crisis.
Why do we have a housing crisis in part because
you've had millions of illegal immigrants coming in, so there's
(11:43):
not enough housing to cope, so that's pushed up the
cost of housing. Regular people can't pay that. So what
are the Democrats do? They take more money out of
their taxes and hand it out free rent to illegal
immigrants who shouldn't even be here. I mean, whose side
are they on? This is why I think we're going
to get changed next year.
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thing I think that people don't see enough. I think
they saw just a glimpse of it with the fire.
They saw the Palisades fire and they went, oh, my gosh,
(13:28):
these people are homeless now. They had these beautiful homes.
They can't rebuild. Then the President went there, he brought
a lot of attention to the fact that these people
can't even rebuild because of your stupid regulations, because government
is so in the business of the average person that
if you lose your house in a tragedy, you are
not allowed to rebuild it for years. And it's still
(13:50):
to me, it's still not getting enough media attention that
this is still happening. These people still they have and
they have mortgages. That's the thing. People don't understand. Your
mortgage doesn't go away because you're home burned down, you
have a mortgage, you have no place to live, and
you can't rebuilds.
Speaker 2 (14:06):
So offensive, and again the way you put it is
so right. It's just heartless because it's this bureaucratic mindset.
So you look at some of the numbers. Now Malibu
where you mentioned Malibu, six hundred homes burned, two permits
have been issued. Two ridiculous the rebuilding. If you look
at all the burned areas, it's under ten percent of
the number of homes burnt permits issued. And it really
(14:28):
gets to the heart of why these democrats are so
utterly useless. I'll just give you this quote from Karen Bassiet.
It just tells you so much about how these people think.
A few months ago, now, maybe four or five months ago,
she did. But by the way, days after the fires,
she sat there at that amazing press conference with the president,
and the president exactly just said what you said, like
(14:50):
people just they could go back tomorrow, they could clear
their own plan. What's the delay, And she said, we'll
get clear out the obstacles. There'll be no delay, she
said to the president. Right months later, nothing had happened.
So she makes an announcement. I saw it and social
media her posts said these words, I Caen bass, I
have just signed an executive order streamlining permitting so people
(15:11):
can rebuild in LA and thought, okay, that's good. Months late,
but whatever. But there was a video underneath of her
actual actual announcement of the prescon, so I thought, I'll
watch what she said. This is what she actually said.
I have just signed an executive order tasking agency heads
with developing paths forward to streamlining permitting. He's like, what
(15:33):
is that? That's nothing. That's total bureaucratic BS. Nothing's going
to happen, No change, is just some BS process that
she's set up.
Speaker 1 (15:45):
I'll tell you ensure what I hear.
Speaker 2 (15:47):
Sorry, just what you know. People I speak to her
the day they said they go to the building department.
The building department says, you've got to go to that department.
You've got to get your insurance. They go to insurance,
they say you need a permit before we get It's
just nightmare for people.
Speaker 1 (16:01):
I mean a very similar situation in Michigan when our
reading scores went way down. The governor comes out and says,
I'm going to form a committee to figure out how
to get the reading scores up. A committee, I mean
that government forming a committee is the worst thing that
can ever happen because it's just a I'm not it's
a press release. That's all it is.
Speaker 3 (16:22):
It is.
Speaker 1 (16:23):
I hope the American people have figured out that when
Democrats put out a press release, that's where it starts
and that's where it ends. It was just to get attention.
I mean the same thing with bringing businesses in and
you talk, I mean, you're in a very similar situation
to Michigan. You talk about the fact that you have
high gas prices, high energy prices. You have also a
situation where you have a massive, out of control a
(16:46):
llegal immigrant problem because you're right there, you're right there
at the border and the governor has said come here
and you'll be safe and we'll pay for you. So
you have an out of control tax problem.
Speaker 2 (16:59):
Exactly again, the highest taxes in the country. Here's another.
I mean, you you know I take all the you
know you and I we do our homework, right So,
and I've got a business background. Most of my people
know me from Fox, but most of my career has
been in business. I've worked all over the world and
business started my own companies, including here in California. I
ran restaurants in England. That is a tough business. So
(17:20):
I know about budgets. You know, you look at the
budget of the state of California. In the last ten years,
they've doubled, the budget doubled, and everything's worse. You think
these people have no clue how to run anything properly.
There's no folk that exactly as you said, the don't.
They don't. They're not even interested in results and outcomes
(17:41):
and did that happen and what happened to that money?
And why didn't it work? Now, none of that, It
is just the press release making the announcement.
Speaker 1 (17:49):
I was just watching this all interview of Gavin Newsom
where he kind of blew up at the person who
was interviewing him because they were like, you know, as mayor,
you have a massive duffice it and he said, yeah,
it's a huge deficit. You know, that's a thing. And
I think Democrats are so used to just getting away
with this. And I give the interview the interviewer credit
(18:10):
because he really pushed back on him and he had
just dropped out of the race. For governor at that point.
This was years ago, and he was kind of like
had his tail between his legs and was sulking. But
that's another thing that a Republican can never get away with.
You can't get away with being a smart alec and
telling off the interviewer. But your opponent recently thought that
(18:31):
she could. So I want to play the clip for
people in case you missed it. Because Katie Porter is
she's currently leading. I think that is that's rapidly that
lead is rapidly going away. I noticed that I was
looking at the polls from July to August to September,
she has gone down a couple points every single time.
(18:51):
You're going up in the polls. I think she thinks
she's an interesting character because I think she thinks, well,
I will go up against Steve Hilton. What will happen
is that it will be that I won't. The Republicans
are fewer, like you said that myth that the Republicans
there's not as many votes, so I want him there.
(19:12):
And the interviewer asked her what are you going to
do to get those votes? And she was like appalled.
So I want to play this for you so that people.
If you missed it, you can hear. This is what
the opponent is like here, it is do.
Speaker 3 (19:24):
You think you need any of those forty percent of
California voters to win? And you're saying no, you don't.
Speaker 4 (19:29):
No, I'm saying I'm going to try to win every
vote I can. And what I'm saying to you is
that well to those voters.
Speaker 3 (19:35):
Okay, so I don't want to keep doing this.
Speaker 4 (19:37):
I'm going to call it. Oh thank you.
Speaker 3 (19:41):
You're not going to do the interview with them?
Speaker 4 (19:43):
Nope, not like this. I'm not not with seven follow
ups to every single question you ask.
Speaker 3 (19:47):
Every other candidate has a I don't care.
Speaker 4 (19:50):
I don't care. I want to have a pleasant, positive
conversation which you asked me about every issue on this list.
And if every question you're going to make up a
follow up question, then we're never going to get there
and we're just.
Speaker 3 (20:01):
Going to circle around.
Speaker 4 (20:02):
And I had to do this before ever you've never
had had an animation.
Speaker 3 (20:10):
Okay, but every other candidate has done this.
Speaker 4 (20:12):
What part of I'm me? I'm running for governor because
I'm a leader. I don't want to have an unhappy
experience for the you and I don't want this all
on camera.
Speaker 3 (20:21):
I don't want to have an unhappy experience with you either.
Speaker 1 (20:23):
I love this for so many reasons because every crazy
lib that, every crazy lib woman that puts out a
video in her car is has this exact emotion. I
don't want to have an unhappy time like I need
a safe space right now. How how could you possibly
sit down and negotiate businesses to come into this state?
(20:44):
How could you possibly concentrate on a solution for homelessness?
That's an unhappy situation for Katie Porter.
Speaker 2 (20:50):
I bet it's amazing. Actually it's it's so funny. It's
not more than a week and it never gets old.
I've seen that so many times. By the way, there's
every we made this video. I had great pleasure writing
writing it, just editing it out where she said, I,
you know, seven follow up questions as that. I here
are seven follow up questions, Katie Porter. Number one, why
(21:11):
do we have the highest unemployment rate in America? Why
do we have the highest poverty? Anyway, we we spliced
it together very it was fun. But look the attitude
that you see you see there, that's the attitude of
these of all of them. Actually, this entitled arrogant attitude.
How dare you ask me questions? No consequences ever for
(21:32):
their failures, No accountability, even the idea of accountability is
offensive to them, Like, how dare you question me? That's
what you get with this one party rule, this arrogant
razulo ruling elite, that's what you get.
Speaker 1 (21:48):
She'd And the funny thing is that, like the real
takeaway from that interview to me is that she makes
it very clear, I don't care at all about those
people that's half her state. She doesn't care about them.
Speaker 2 (22:04):
It's exactly right. And to your point, even you know,
if further in the interview she's talking about, well, they'll
be a Republican, and they assume that a Republican can't win,
so who cares? And that's why you've they've gone so extreme,
actually because they just don't think they're ever going to
get a challenge from the other side, and so it's
entirely about pandering to the people who really pull the
(22:26):
strings in the Democratic Party in California, the unions, the
far left activist groups. By the way, I don't know
if you saw there was another one this week, Betty Yee,
I don't know if you saw this one, it was
an oh my okay, let me just so she's also
running for governor. She's like weighed down, as you say,
in the polls. It's basically most of the polls show
me and Katie Porter is the top two. And we
(22:47):
have this top two jungle primary system, so that's the
top two go forward, whoever, whichever party they're from. Anyway,
there's a bunch of other Democrats who aren't doing at
all well, and one of them is Betty Yee elected.
She's currently the state controller and she was on We
were both on Piers Morgan and to talk about Katie Porter,
(23:07):
and Betty is called on Katie Porter to drop out
of the race because of this terrible interview. Anyway, Piers
Morgan happened to know Katie Porter because they did Bill
Maher together. So to his audience, he plays a clip
of him and Katie Porter on Bill Maher and it
happened to be about the issue of trans athletes, and
so he plays this clip, goes to Betty just out
(23:29):
of interest, what's your It wasn't a tough question, where
do you stand on that issue? And so she immediately
gave the ridiculous kind of woke. Well, I think there
should be equal opportunity, fairness, blah blah blah, you know,
and he kind of passed. He said, okay, so you're
saying that you think it's okay for biological men to
compete with and she just obviously had never had to
(23:51):
really defend that position, and so she just recited the
nonsense talking points. But he wouldn't let it go and
he said, okay, so you're going to be you want
to be the governor of during the LA Olympics in
twenty twenty eight. Are you telling me that you think
that biological men should compete in the Olympics against women
in LA? And she said, well, I do think that
trans women athletes are women, and yes, of course, and
(24:14):
then he goes, so, which sports do you think, apart
from maybe archery, which sports do you think that would
be okay for? And she says maybe probably track and field.
He's track and field? What are you talking about? First, No,
it's insane. It's just as much of a car cross
as Casey forught it. And then he said, like, okay,
what examples? What do you mean and she says, well,
you know, the shorter races. He said, what like the
(24:38):
one hundred meters you think that you saying? And she
said yes and said, so what you're telling me, Betty
is that you would like to have a gender neutral Olympics.
She literally said, there, yes, I think that's what you know.
We should yes a gender neutral Olympics for la Wow.
And this is I mean, only someone who's just totally
(25:01):
uninterested in the views of normal people only and her
constituents only cares about pandering to the activists who really
control the party, would say such a thing. But that's
who they are these days in California.
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say that because they have never been asked questions before,
(28:12):
and I think I just sort of have this sneaking
suspicion that Kamala ruined that for them, that they had
the media wrapped around their little finger and they would
do whatever they wanted and they didn't get follow ups.
But let me tell you, and you've probably experienced the
same thing when I was running. I think it was
an NBC reporter. I don't know if you were there
(28:33):
asking Sarah. I don't think you were on the campaign yet.
We had this NBC reporter who stood out. She tried
to get into an event that we were in and
they wouldn't let her into the event. I mean, it
wasn't open to media, they wouldn't let her into the event.
She stood outside, knocked on the windows and said answer
my questions, Answer my questions. Finally, when the event was over,
(28:54):
we said there was no door we could go out.
She had a cameraman at one door. There were like
three doors to the building. They had someone posted it
every door. They were not going to let us leave
without like physically grabbing us and making us do an interview.
And so we finally said, you know what, We'll do it.
But you're coming in and you're sitting down, and you're
going to set up appropriately. This isn't going to be
(29:14):
like a gotcha interview. We'll sit down with you. Can
you imagine them doing that to a democrat. I mean,
Katie Porlo would just lose her mind exactly. They've never
had that. It's exactly right.
Speaker 2 (29:26):
And the press in California, the media in California just
they assume that these people are going to be in
charge forever. So it's exactly that total complicit attitude. But
you're right, it is changing, It is changing, and I
think that's right. They saw with kam Laus. Oh my gosh,
this was the consequence when we didn't put someone put
(29:47):
through their pieces.
Speaker 1 (29:48):
That has been one of the things that I it's
kind of like a bittersweet situation because I do feel
like it is now you finally are forcing these women
in the Democrat Party to sit down. And you know,
and Whimer had the same thing. I mean, she's never
really sat down for an interview. She's had very easy
MSNBC interviews where they just coddle her and you know,
cut a lauristic A bottle in her mouth. She's great,
(30:11):
but they've never actually tortured her at all. And I
think that's going to change. I say it's bittersweet because
I think that Kamala Harris made women look really idiotic,
her stumbling over her words, saying she washes her vegetables
in the bathtub, all of these bananas things that I
was like, oh my gosh, this is not who we are.
(30:31):
You know, like you watch it as a woman and
you're like, no, no, stop saying these stupid things.
Speaker 2 (30:37):
I know, I've always said that, that's why, you know,
like and and they always go to sexism and blame
sexism when they've you know, Hillary did it and Karmala
does it, and you just think it's so insulting. Look
all the fantastic conservative women leaders that have been elected
all over the world. You know in my home and
you in the UK Margaret Thatcher, of course, and you know,
(30:57):
there's so many examples and you you know, and it's
just it's so pathetic that when they have terrible candidates
who happen to be women, they say, of course it's sexism. No,
it's because they're useless.
Speaker 1 (31:09):
Oh that you know. We were just actually recently talking
about this though here in our little group of what
Republican women have been lifted up as great leaders in
this country. I mean, first of all, there have been few,
because I think it's been it's taken longer for the
Republican Party to bring women in and bring women in
at a higher number. But also it's very hard for
(31:30):
Republican women to be taken seriously on channels like MSNBC
and CNN and just in general. And then you get
these Democrat women who, I mean, let's face it, Kamala
Harris was always kind of pushed up as that DEI candidate.
And no, people don't like to hear that, but there
is when the President of the United States chooses you
for vice president and then has to step out of
(31:53):
the next race and doesn't automatically say, obviously, my vice president,
it's the choice. Then everybody knows you were only put
there for one reason, and it's not because you can
lead the country.
Speaker 2 (32:04):
He said. I mean, he said to himself, he said,
I'm going to pick a black woman first. It was
a woman. He made that pledge, and then he had
he said, to be a black woman. So's you can't
argue with that. He said it right.
Speaker 1 (32:15):
And it may and it hurts that And I think
that was the point that so many conservatives were making,
and and maybe not as eloquently as they should have,
But the point is when you don't hire there is
no reason that he couldn't have found an actually qualified
black woman who could have spoken if that was really
his choice. Well, there are plenty, but he went for
(32:36):
the person that would get the donors and all of that,
but had no ability to actually talk. But when you're
not hiring someone because you think they're the best person
to sit beside you, to be your right hand man
or your right hand woman, then you are hurting women.
You are hurting minorities. And that's what they do on
a regular basis.
Speaker 2 (32:58):
Exactly because identity is everything to them. Yes, and you
still see it now, just the way they talk. You know,
it's just so you know, it actually feels very old
fashioned because I think, you know, thanks to it is
just so. I think a huge refreshing change happened with
the president's victory last year and the scale of it
and the popular vote and just throwing off this No,
(33:20):
we don't have to say that anyone, We don't have
to pretend anymore. But the most normal people, the vast
majority of the country, honestly, even if they didn't vote
for President Trump or not, Republicans have just I just
think there's this freedom, this likeness now that we don't
have to go along with this nonsense. But the Democrats,
the politicians, they're still stuck there. They're still talk like this.
(33:40):
They haven't realized that the whole country has moved on.
Speaker 1 (33:43):
That's right, and that's why you ended up in that
situation with the men in women's sports and general. Suddenly
we go from that to gender neutral Olympics. I mean
this is they just keep doubling down on that, and
they're in that situation right now with this government shutdown
because Schumer is kind of being whole hostage by AOC,
and AOC is a radical and you see the mom Donnie.
(34:03):
I kind of loved that debate that we watched between
Mom Donnie and Cuomo and Slia because they were pushing
him like, you can't pay for this stuff, you can't
do this. And as even though I think that New
York is going to be lost in this election, I
think that helps you. Because California. I really believe that
the people of California, they are wealthy. They have these
(34:26):
beautiful communities that are being infiltrated by bad policies. You
can't I remember my aunt lived there and it was
like for her to build a room on her house,
you'd have to have God come down and sign off
on it. You know.
Speaker 2 (34:39):
It's like, oh, it's insane.
Speaker 1 (34:41):
The regulation is too much.
Speaker 2 (34:43):
The stories, I mean, there's so many stories. Everywhere I go,
you hear these stories. But just one day the other
day that is so believing. Everyone here believes it because
they experienced it. There was a lady that have a
very small independent winery in wine country in California, and
she wanted to increase. It's like, you know, just small,
not some lavish thing, and she wanted to She built
a new patio, extended the patio so she got more
(35:05):
visitors for the wine tastings and lunch and whatever. And
she I think it was an increase from a capacity
of thirty five to fifty people. So like, this is
not some giant thing. She said it took her six
years and a million dollars. I am, I know these
infection mental compliance that this that it's like, it's unbelievable
(35:29):
how bad it is.
Speaker 1 (35:30):
I could tell you so many stories from Michigan. I mean,
we could honestly go on and on about this. I've
gone too long already. I will just say that one
example of this that we're seeing crop back up. Do
you remember this squirrel that was killed by Governor Hokeel
in New York City or in New York State because
it was Yes, So right now in Michigan, there's a
(35:53):
deer that a blind deer that has been rescued and
it's at a rescue center where they are keeping it
for educational purposes. They don't have the right permit for it,
and I think we have officially stopped it, but there
was a kill order from the DNR to go in
there and get rid of the steer. I mean, this
is the kind of government overreach that when people start
hearing about it, they go, wait, wait a minute, you
(36:16):
don't kill the family squirrel, like, you just don't do that.
That's when you start driving people crazy. But that is
what I Those are the little things. And I think
that the point of that is that when you see that,
they can go in and they can use the government
power to do that. And in Michigan they've shut down
a lot of pig farms and wild game sites and
everything by using these agencies. That's why the governor is
(36:39):
so important, because the governor has the ability to control
these agencies and reduce these regulations. These regulations that act
as laws should never happen. That's why what you're doing
is so critical. And you can save California. I will
just say also, when I was a kid, I remember
California Girls, the song. It was like you lived in
(37:00):
the Midwest and California had this this aura about it,
Like we just thought California was the most amazing state
we had. We would tell people like, oh, we live
in the United States, we have California. You know, California
had this fantastic reputation and my cousins lived out there.
They were true California Girls surfers, every day, and all this,
(37:23):
all the movies, clueless, everything that was all but based
in California, you know, And and we loved California. There
was never this tainted view of California's dirty and disgusting.
And I know you will bring back that golden California
that you talk about, that is it.
Speaker 2 (37:39):
So tell us.
Speaker 1 (37:39):
Okay, So tell people, because you're gonna need money, you
need help.
Speaker 2 (37:42):
This is a peace you need to go up against.
Speaker 1 (37:45):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (37:46):
And also volunteers, because you know they've got this big
machine I call it the Democrat industrial complex, you know,
the especially the unions and the activists and the bureau,
they all and they've had it all their own way
for a long time. So please please get involved. Steve
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We're just getting our volunteer army together now. So it's
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Speaker 1 (38:13):
And as I pointed out earlier, the army there is
more important than I think any other place because their
army can just grab ballots. We've got to send people
out there for you, so if you can go out
there and help. Steve Hilton, thank you so much for
coming on.
Speaker 2 (38:27):
Great to be with you and enjoyed it.
Speaker 1 (38:28):
Thank you absolutely, and thank you all for listening to
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