Speaker 1: And the state could lose.
Speaker 2: Out of my shot.
Speaker 3: I wanted to tell you that that's actually correct. It's
Speaker 3: not that it's electric vehicles. It's that and you don't
Speaker 3: need to commit as any Paris Climer.
Speaker 1: Quarr, Okay, it does. Okay, you also were in my
Speaker 1: shot before that. Stay out of my shot. She's a peach.
Speaker 1: She's a leading Democrat. Jack.
Speaker 3: So that's Katie Porter, and there's too many leading Democrats.
Speaker 3: There's Katie get out of my having shot Porter who's
Speaker 3: running for governor as a Democrat.
Speaker 1: There's Eric I.
Speaker 3: Sleep with Chinese spies, Swallwell and other Democrats. And there's
Speaker 3: so many Democrats that they are splitting the vote. And
Speaker 3: a new poll came out yesterday that with all the
Speaker 3: Democratic votes split, two Republicans are in the lead. And
Speaker 3: the way we do primaries in California is the top
Speaker 3: two vote getters in the primary run against each other.
Speaker 3: So she might have two Republicans running against each other
Speaker 3: for governor, and the top guy, Steve Hilt We're about
Speaker 3: to talk to him a.
Speaker 1: Couple of minutes.
Speaker 3: The other interesting thing that happened yesterday was there was
Speaker 3: a debate scheduled, but usc known for their racism, wouldn't
Speaker 3: allow any people of color on the stage. Well, they
Speaker 3: had a threshold of polling that you had to meet
Speaker 3: to get on the stage, so you don't end up with,
Speaker 3: you know, thirty people debating and it gets all watered
Speaker 3: down and you don't learn anything from candidates that actually
Speaker 3: have a chance to win. But uh, Javier for Bessera,
Speaker 3: for instance, former attorney general, complained that he was left
Speaker 3: out because usc as racist as you would expect.
Speaker 1: That's hilarious. You cannot make this stuff up.
Speaker 4: From advisor to British prime ministers to Fox News host,
Speaker 4: patriotic American Steve Hilton joins us he's running for governor
Speaker 4: of Caln, UNICORNEA.
Speaker 1: Steve, how you feeling.
Speaker 2: I'm feeling good, but frustrated I should be talking to
Speaker 2: you this morning on the back of another debate triumph
Speaker 2: because most of the debates I've done, i'd say all
Speaker 2: of them, I have one hands down. That's not just
Speaker 2: me talking. The first TV debate they did a state
Speaker 2: white Pole. It was me against six Democrats. I won
Speaker 2: by sixty six percent. The nearest Democrat got seventeen percent,
Speaker 2: most of them in single digits. Why, because it's so obvious.
Speaker 2: We need change in this state and we can't go
Speaker 2: on like this. And I think they're panicking because you've
Speaker 2: got me leading these polls. And there's another one that
Speaker 2: came out yesterday. I was on twenty percent, well on fifteen,
Speaker 2: the other Republican on fourteen. So look whichever pole you
Speaker 2: look at right now, we've got momentum and we're leading,
Speaker 2: and that's what they can't stand. And so you know,
Speaker 2: they canceled the debate. And of course, on the one hand,
Speaker 2: you can look at the cancelation of the debate yet
Speaker 2: another example of you know, they can't do anything right
Speaker 2: these Democrats. They can't even organize a debate. They can't
Speaker 2: build a high speed rail line with hundreds of billions
Speaker 2: of dollars, even the butterfly bridge to nowhere, or the
Speaker 2: people mover in lax or solve homelesses, or do anything.
Speaker 2: Totally clueless and incompetent, can't even do a debate. That's
Speaker 2: the kind of lighthearted, funny way of talking about it.
Speaker 2: But actually there's a serious point, and it's not even
Speaker 2: the political correctness where you have these ridiculous lpds as
Speaker 2: I call them, the low poll democrats winning l lpds,
Speaker 2: Are we going to make that a thing? So the
Speaker 2: lpds all jumping up and down, now it's race racism. No,
Speaker 2: it's because it's not because you're your race. It's because
Speaker 2: you're not doing well enough in the race. That's why
Speaker 2: you weren't on the debate. But the real point I
Speaker 2: want to make is, do you know what actually happened
Speaker 2: that caused this debate to be counseled the legislature. The
Speaker 2: leaders of the Democrats in the state Legislature wrote a
Speaker 2: letter to USC on headed paper with all their ridiculous
Speaker 2: little pressure groups and factions, the LGBT Caucus and the
Speaker 2: Native American Caucus, and the Women's Caucus and the Latino
Speaker 2: and all the usual suspects. Right. But the letter was
Speaker 2: signed by Robert Reebus, who is the leader of the
Speaker 2: State Assembly, and Monique le Mond, who's the Democrat leader
Speaker 2: in the State Senate, telling USC they'd better put these
Speaker 2: lpds in the debate or they'll be trouble. Now. That
Speaker 2: is bullying and intimidation from the state Legislature to USC.
Speaker 2: That's why the debate was canceled. They wrote that letter
Speaker 2: on Monday. USC panicked, They said, wow, now we've not
Speaker 2: just the candidates whining we got the state legislature on
Speaker 2: our back. That's a whole different thing. So then they
Speaker 2: go to ABC, who were the media partly going to
Speaker 2: broadcast the debate, and say, okay, we want to get
Speaker 2: these people back in. ABC said no, get lost, and
Speaker 2: then they counseled the debate. But it actually shows you
Speaker 2: the arrogance and corruption that you get after sixteen years
Speaker 2: of one party rule. It was the legislature that counseled
Speaker 2: this debate. It is totally outrageous.
Speaker 3: You know, I don't know why, but for the first time,
Speaker 3: I'm getting the you could win feeling. It reminds me
Speaker 3: because we were doing this job back when Arnold first
Speaker 3: started running, and we had him on the show several times,
Speaker 3: and I remember when he was, you know, doing his
Speaker 3: wrap on our radio show and just thinking, you know,
Speaker 3: there's something here, there's some momentum here. It's a unique
Speaker 3: time when even the Democratic voters of the state are
Speaker 3: so fed up with the way things are and I'm
Speaker 3: feeling I'm feeling your vibe here, man.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I love that to me too, honestly, And I'm
Speaker 2: not just you know, I'm the opposite of complacent. I'm
Speaker 2: working harder every week. But we do these town halls
Speaker 2: up and down the state, and the numbers are growing.
Speaker 2: You know, it used to be, you know, forty fifty
Speaker 2: people would come. Now then it was one hundred. Now
Speaker 2: we're getting two hundred, sometimes three hundred people coming along.
Speaker 2: And this is open to everyone. They're not it's not
Speaker 2: Republican events. This is just show up in a place,
Speaker 2: put the word out on social media, and people come along.
Speaker 2: And you're getting people who ask questions. It's totally open.
Speaker 2: It's not me making some boring speech. It's like, come
Speaker 2: and ask what's on your mind. And a lot of
Speaker 2: the time, yes, it's true. I don't want to be
Speaker 2: you know, I do want to be accurate. I would say
Speaker 2: most of the people are Republicans, but there's a lot
Speaker 2: of Democrats coming, you know. Just last you know, the
Speaker 2: other last one we did, I voted for Kamala Harris.
Speaker 2: I think we need to change. What are you going
Speaker 2: to do about whatever it is? So there's something happening there.
Speaker 2: The fundraising is going really well. And then the other
Speaker 2: thing I just want to point out is a couple
Speaker 2: of things we got going for us this year that
Speaker 2: make me really confident we could do it at number
Speaker 2: one in the midterm election. It's all about turnout, getting
Speaker 2: the party that does the best job getting its voters
Speaker 2: out does best. We've got some really important weapons for
Speaker 2: turnout this year, which is on the ballot in November.
Speaker 2: We're going to have voter ID which Republicans particularly are
Speaker 2: enthusiastic about, and save Prop thirteen to keep Tact, to
Speaker 2: restore the protections of Prop thirteen to all these endless
Speaker 2: tax increases they're bringing in, so Republicans will go out
Speaker 2: and vote for that more than Democrats. The second big
Speaker 2: thing these utterly useless Democrat candidates. I mean, come on,
Speaker 2: like you were just talking about Porter Swallower, Tom Steyert.
Speaker 2: These people are such a joke. And then the other
Speaker 2: factor that's knew this year different to previous races is
Speaker 2: just the growing volume both from here within our state
Speaker 2: and nationally pointing out and revealing the extent of the
Speaker 2: broad and the corruption and the abuse of our money.
Speaker 2: You've got Nick Shirley here doing it. You've got James O'Keeffe.
Speaker 2: I sat down with James O'Keeffe in la last weekend.
Speaker 2: He took the stuff he's been putting out on the
Speaker 2: paying for signatures and voter registration. You've got the Manhattan Institute,
Speaker 2: Chris Ruffo just set up a new bureau here to
Speaker 2: investigate corruption in California. You've got the FEDS JD Vance,
Speaker 2: the fraud hunting. You've got Billes Sale, my friend Bill
Speaker 2: as Sale, who's the US attorney doing incredible job prosecuting fraud.
Speaker 2: So there's volume on California, and it's just going to
Speaker 2: get louder and louder because everyone is sick of it.
Speaker 2: Dr Oz coming in and CBS News the hospice fraud.
Speaker 2: I mean, there's so every week there's more and more
Speaker 2: exposure of exactly how badly they've mismanaged this state. And
Speaker 2: I think people are furious about it, and they're going
Speaker 2: to kick this party out.
Speaker 4: In November, I was pleasantly surprised to see even CBS
Speaker 4: News was on the ridiculous hospice fraud story, which shows
Speaker 4: at least growing awareness and enthusiasm is the wrong word,
Speaker 4: but the indignation about all of the fraud and waste
Speaker 4: of abuse that you get with one party government, which
Speaker 4: is a perfect lead. What was going to be my
Speaker 4: next question I'm looking at the same poll that had
Speaker 4: you dominating mister Fang Fang in the sweet cupcake that
Speaker 4: is Katie Porter and lunatic leftist tech guy Tom Steyer Steyer.
Speaker 4: But it had right direction, wrong direction, right track, wrong track.
Speaker 4: Right track was still thirty three percent of people. What'll
Speaker 4: it take a junkie to move into your house? And
Speaker 4: like you're an eight on your carpet? You thirty three percent,
Speaker 4: but wrong track was fifty two. I think your main
Speaker 4: tasks and tell me if I'm wrong, is going to
Speaker 4: wake people out of their sleepy apathy and help them
Speaker 4: understand there is a better state that could be.
Speaker 2: One. And here's how I see this going. Obviously, I'm
Speaker 2: planning to be in the top two. My expectation is
Speaker 2: that it will be another Democrat. And I think, really,
Speaker 2: it looks like it's going to be swolwell.
Speaker 1: Really freaking I know.
Speaker 2: Well. I mean, like like I always say, like, well,
Speaker 2: look at the look at the candidates, Like the President
Speaker 2: would say, they're not sending their best. They looked at
Speaker 2: these people or maybe they are their best. Who knows
Speaker 2: how bad it's got, but look at them. I mean,
Speaker 2: I don't know which is the worst. But it just
Speaker 2: feels like Swollwell, it feels as if the machine is
Speaker 2: moving behind him. Right, he got that big endorsement from
Speaker 2: the SEIU. You got, you know, little signs like Adam
Speaker 2: shiff who is very close to Pelosi endorsing him, and
Speaker 2: a couple of other members of Congress. So I and
Speaker 2: they so, I think that they want a puppet that
Speaker 2: they control. And obviously Tom Stys a billionaire's own money,
Speaker 2: so they can't control him. There are reports that are
Speaker 2: long long standing report that they can't stand Pelosi, can't
Speaker 2: stand Katie Porter, and so they don't want her. And
Speaker 2: so who else have they got? I mean, they tried
Speaker 2: all these other people. They tried to get Padia to run.
Speaker 2: They tried, they think maybe Kamala Harris would run. None
Speaker 2: of these people wanted to do it for various reasons.
Speaker 2: So they're stuck with Swollwell. I think that's where this
Speaker 2: is heading.
Speaker 1: I feel like Swallow's got Gray Davis vibes, but it's just.
Speaker 2: Such a joke. He's not a serious person. I mean,
Speaker 2: that's the fundable point. Anyway. My point was going to be,
Speaker 2: once we're in a situation post June where it's just
Speaker 2: a very clear choice this or that. Right, do you
Speaker 2: want more of the same, another four years or eight
Speaker 2: years of this one party rule or change? I think
Speaker 2: that will really focus Right now, you know, you got
Speaker 2: all these candidates and it's all a bit of a
Speaker 2: muddle and people aren't really paying attention. But I think
Speaker 2: that once the primary is out of the way, it's
Speaker 2: a whole different world. And then I think, well, that's
Speaker 2: when it really we can really turn up the volume on.
Speaker 2: Come on, I mean, is there anyone that really believes
Speaker 2: what this state needs is another four years of Democrat
Speaker 2: one party rule? I find an argument that works even
Speaker 2: with Democrats and independents who are not never going to
Speaker 2: call themselves republican, But I would say, look, come on,
Speaker 2: it's not healthy to have sixteen years of one party rule.
Speaker 2: Just a bit of balance in the system is a
Speaker 2: good idea. The Democrats are still probably controlled the state legislature,
Speaker 2: they'll still probably run all the big cities in the counties.
Speaker 2: Having a bit of balance in the mix is a
Speaker 2: good idea, and you get people nodding along to that.
Speaker 2: So I just feel really confident that if we get
Speaker 2: a shot at putting that clear choice out there. That's
Speaker 2: why I actually go back to that first TV debate,
Speaker 2: because it really was clear it was me against six
Speaker 2: other Democrats. I didn't do anything amazing. I just told
Speaker 2: the truth about how bad everything is. You know, we've
Speaker 2: had We've got the highest taxes in the country for
Speaker 2: the worst results, highest poverty rate, highest unemployment rate, highest
Speaker 2: cost of living fiftieth out of fifty according to US
Speaker 2: News and World Report. For opportunity fiftieth out of fifty,
Speaker 2: walle Hub says for affordability Chief Executive magazine, California ranked
Speaker 2: fiftieth out of fifty for business climate. I mean, you know,
Speaker 2: we've had the highest gas tax in the country, fiftieth
Speaker 2: out of fifty. For the quality of our roads, I mean,
Speaker 2: it's insane how bad it is.
Speaker 1: It is insane.
Speaker 4: Steve Hilton, Steve, we're up against a break. Sorry to interrupt,
Speaker 4: but keep fighting a good fight. We will stay in touch.
Speaker 4: Steve Hilton always great to talk and I mean this sincerely,
Speaker 4: and if anybody can contradict it, feel free. The Republican
Speaker 4: primary is running for who's got the best ideas.
Speaker 1: The Democratic primary.
Speaker 4: Is who can be the most slavish, you know, servant
Speaker 4: of the public employee unions.
Speaker 1: That's the question. Armstrong