Steve Hilton
Appearances
Morning Wire
India and Pakistan Conflict & Trump Fights Climate Rules | 5.8.25
California is setting such strict fuel economy standards, you know, it's a de facto ban on gas-powered cars.
Morning Wire
India and Pakistan Conflict & Trump Fights Climate Rules | 5.8.25
Because California is such a large car market, car makers don't make California cars and cars for the other 49 states. They just make one type of car. So California wants to be able to drive gas powered cars out of existence in favor of EVs.
Morning Wire
Is California Ready to Vote Red? | 3.30.25
So that's nearly a fifth. That's a big deal. We saw a massive positive vote for Proposition 36. which was the one that, as its supporters, including me, we used to talk about it as making crime illegal again. Prop 36 was undoing the terrible damage of the Prop 47 that Kamala Harris pushed many years back, which basically legalized theft under $950 a day.
Morning Wire
Is California Ready to Vote Red? | 3.30.25
You saw defeats for George Gascon, the Soros-backed DA in Los Angeles County, the recall of the mayor in Oakland and the DA there. You saw the defeat of the mayor of San Francisco. So actually, there really is change building.
Morning Wire
Is California Ready to Vote Red? | 3.30.25
And all of that was before the terrible wildfire catastrophe in Los Angeles, which really woke people up to the scale of the Democrat extremism and incompetence that has just given us such terrible outcomes on every measure. That's what I've written about In my book, Califalia, which is based on every measure that matters, every single one.
Morning Wire
Is California Ready to Vote Red? | 3.30.25
California, under this one party rule that we've had for so long from Democrats, we're literally the worst in America, not just in the middle somewhere. We have the highest rate of poverty, the highest taxes, the highest cost for housing, gas, electricity, water. We have the worst business climate 10 years in a row. It's a complete failure on every front.
Morning Wire
Is California Ready to Vote Red? | 3.30.25
And I think finally people are waking up to it.
Morning Wire
Is California Ready to Vote Red? | 3.30.25
So it's a really great question because one of the things that I've been really trying to convey to people is, is that when people say, oh, California is such a deep blue state, no chance of ever electing a Republican, forget about it. What I've been pointing out for years is that it's already and has been for years a much more Republican state than people think. I did the math on this.
Morning Wire
Is California Ready to Vote Red? | 3.30.25
The last time Republicans won an election statewide was 2006, Arnold Schwarzenegger's re-election. Since then, Republicans haven't won. But if you take the average share of the vote across all statewide elections since then, the number you get to is 41.7%. So that's not 50, but it's a lot more than people think. Let's call it 40% is the baseline. That is a higher base than a lot of people think.
Morning Wire
Is California Ready to Vote Red? | 3.30.25
And so it's not out of reach, especially when you just see the total collapse of confidence in the state's leadership in the form of Karen Bass or Gavin Newsom in relation to the wildfires, and just the accumulating pain of the economic cost of these far-left policies.
Morning Wire
Is California Ready to Vote Red? | 3.30.25
No, how can a Democrat be the answer to the problems of California? The Democrats who caused them. I think you've got to be very clear about that. The only way to get the change we need in California is to elect a Republican. And I think that the Democratic Party and Democratic candidates
Morning Wire
Is California Ready to Vote Red? | 3.30.25
wherever they position themselves on the spectrum, they're tied in to some of the structural factors that have driven these terrible policy outcomes. For example, the dependence on the unions, the way that the Democratic Party, regardless of where people stand on the spectrum, are completely in hock.
Morning Wire
Is California Ready to Vote Red? | 3.30.25
to the activists who drive the Democratic Party and basically determine its ideological positioning. You just saw this, by the way, revealed from Rick Caruso just the other day on my podcast, The Steve Hilton Show, Nicole Shanahan, who I'm working very closely with on the Karen Bass recall in Los Angeles. She was, of course, Bobby Kennedy's running mate. And Rick Caruso,
Morning Wire
Is California Ready to Vote Red? | 3.30.25
who's a Democrat now, just came out against the recall of Karen Bass. And Nicole, who's been working to get that up and running, spoke to him and said, well, why? Why are you against this? When he actually gave his public remarks, It was all going, oh, this is a time for unity and blah, blah, blah. But actually, he revealed the real reason. He didn't want to be labeled a racist.
Morning Wire
Is California Ready to Vote Red? | 3.30.25
That's what he said, which shows you the power of this kind of Democrat machine. You know, people don't want to go up against it. We have to go up against it. only way we get the change we need is to actually defeat the Democrat machine. And that's why I would say the only hope for bringing sanity back to California is a Republican election victory.
Morning Wire
Is California Ready to Vote Red? | 3.30.25
Look, the state legislature has a Democratic supermajority. They have more than two thirds. So I think the argument would be to Californians, look, it's time for a bit of balance. It's not healthy to have one party rule with these terrible ideas being implemented at every level of government.
Morning Wire
Is California Ready to Vote Red? | 3.30.25
no it's completely avoidable like so many of the problems in california they're preventable because what you've seen is the dominance of climate extremism and that has driven a terrible approach to managing the fire risk because whether that is the overgrown forests in the sierras where you see a lot of the really big wildfires or as we tragically saw in los angeles the brush that's on the the coastal mountain ranges they haven't been cleared they haven't been managed
Morning Wire
Is California Ready to Vote Red? | 3.30.25
We used to do it. It used to happen. You talk to people who live in Southern California, it was a regular site for them to see controlled burns on the hillsides or people going and managing the brush. Residents wanted to do it, but it's the California Air Resources Board, which has been implementing an extreme climate agenda that has prevented this from happening.
Morning Wire
Is California Ready to Vote Red? | 3.30.25
So there are ways that we can live happily and safely in our beautiful environment in California and expect the number of homes we build right across the state. We have a massive housing shortage. That's why we have the highest housing costs in the country. But we need to abandon this extreme environmentalism, this climatism, if we're going to actually make that happen.
Morning Wire
Is California Ready to Vote Red? | 3.30.25
That's the question that people are asking all the time. By the way, that $1 billion deficit, that's not California. That's the city of Los Angeles. It's not even Los Angeles County. It's the city of L.A., which is one of 80 or so cities in the county of Los Angeles. So $1 billion just for the city deficit. Absolute joke. And as you say, that's the question. Where's the money going?
Morning Wire
Is California Ready to Vote Red? | 3.30.25
Because we pay the highest taxes in the country. The budget of the state of California has nearly doubled in the last 10 years, even while everything gets worse. And the answer to the question, where's all the money going, is it's going to the luxury pensions and health care that have been given to the government unions that fund the Democratic Party. That's a huge part of it, those contracts.
Morning Wire
Is California Ready to Vote Red? | 3.30.25
And that's basically total corruption. That's the cronyism, which is another factor I look at in my book, Califalia. It's going in total corruption with the homeless issue. I mean, if you look at the audits that have been done, I think it's up to $38 billion just in the last few years that have been I don't even want to say spent, like completely wasted. They can't keep track of it.
Morning Wire
Is California Ready to Vote Red? | 3.30.25
Homelessness has simply gone up. It's gone into the pockets of homeless nonprofits, connected crony developers who build so-called permanent supported housing for homeless people at $700,000, $800,000 per unit with absolutely no requirement for sobriety or job training or any kind of services or treatment. So it's just this complete mess. And because the Democrats...
Morning Wire
Is California Ready to Vote Red? | 3.30.25
have felt like they have it all to themselves. They haven't had a real political challenge. They assume that Democrats are always going to be in charge. So you get a total complacency, corruption, lack of new thinking. That's what's been going on. And so the fact that we have this massively bloated government
Morning Wire
Is California Ready to Vote Red? | 3.30.25
Yes, 100%. The poll you're talking about, there's been a couple, actually, in the last few days. One had 50% of Californians open to voting for a Republican candidate for governor. Another one had 48%. And the feeling that we can't go on like this in California has been building now for such a long time.
Morning Wire
Is California Ready to Vote Red? | 3.30.25
presiding over catastrophically failing services and outcomes is a really big part of the argument for why we need change. And we need to get some balance into California government because you're not going to get the Democrats sorting all this stuff out.
Morning Wire
Is California Ready to Vote Red? | 3.30.25
Well, you're completely right. And it's a real tragedy that people feel they have to leave California to achieve what used to be associated with the California dream. And it's not that long ago, decades, but within living memory, that California was the most affordable place to live. I mean, it seems impossible to imagine that now. But people are leaving because they just can't make it work.
Morning Wire
Is California Ready to Vote Red? | 3.30.25
So I think the answer to the question about where's this support come from, I think if you look into the demographics is for a long time, actually, in recent years, when you look at party registration, not voting, but party registration, Republicans were actually third. It was Democrat and what's known in California as NPP, no party preference, independents, if you like.
Morning Wire
Is California Ready to Vote Red? | 3.30.25
But the theory was a lot of people said that actually the no party preference, the independents who are registered as such, they're really Republicans, but they can't bring themselves to say that publicly. Now, in the last couple of years, Republicans vote registration has actually overtaken NPP. So now Republican registration is second.
Morning Wire
Is California Ready to Vote Red? | 3.30.25
And it seems to me that some of the shift is coming from independents who now feel more comfortable saying they're Republicans. They're a really big group. And I think the really important part of the conversation we can't leave out is the demographics of the state. The largest group in California now are Latinos. Forty percent of the state is Latino.
Morning Wire
Is California Ready to Vote Red? | 3.30.25
And if you look at what's happening across the country with the Latino vote, particularly, of course, with President Trump in this recent election, that is a massive opportunity for Republicans because the working class Latino vote, those are the people who are most being hammered by the Democrats' policies.
Morning Wire
Is California Ready to Vote Red? | 3.30.25
And that is the opportunity, I think, for Republicans to say, look, we are the party that can give you that promise of the California dream and a better life.
Morning Wire
Is California Ready to Vote Red? | 3.30.25
So I think that the true answer to that is... The overall size and scope and bloat of government that makes it impossible to do anything. That's a sort of broad answer. But actually, if you dive into each of the policy issues, which is what I've been doing, whether that's housing or the fact that we don't have reliable, affordable electricity and the gas prices are too high.
Morning Wire
Is California Ready to Vote Red? | 3.30.25
And if you're in the Central Valley and you're trying to make a living as a farmer, they're taking away your water. All of this is driven by this massive bloated economy. regulatory onslaught, this harassment of anyone who tries to do anything.
Morning Wire
Is California Ready to Vote Red? | 3.30.25
You saw a real move forward in the right direction, as I would see it, in the elections last year, in November. Ten counties flipped. from blue to red, including major counties like Fresno County in the Central Valley, the fifth biggest city in California. So 10 counties shifting from Democrat to Republican. We actually only don't have that many counties in California. It's 58.
Morning Wire
Is California Ready to Vote Red? | 3.30.25
I mean, I used to back in the day in England, I ran restaurants and I love talking to restaurant owners because it's such a good kind of barometer of what's actually going on at the community level. I just don't know how anyone does it in California.
Morning Wire
Is California Ready to Vote Red? | 3.30.25
Just the endless regulations and the labor regulations, the minimum wage going up, the harassment from the tax authorities, the environmental regulations I mentioned, the permits and the endless bureaucracy. So I think that is the number one problem. factor that's causing a problem.
Morning Wire
Is California Ready to Vote Red? | 3.30.25
And therefore, the number one place to start with reform is just, I mean, a simple way of putting it would be Doge California. Because actually, the scale of government attacks on people just trying to live their lives, run a business, raise a family, at the state level in California, I think is much, much worse, even than what you see with the federal government in Washington.
Morning Wire
Is California Ready to Vote Red? | 3.30.25
Because of course, at least at the federal level, you've had Republican administrations alternating with Democrat ones. And so you've had the injection of conservative ideas to a certain extent. That's not happened in Sacramento. It's just been all left, left, left for decades. And so you've got this enormous bloated government and bureaucracy.
Morning Wire
Is California Ready to Vote Red? | 3.30.25
I think that's what needs to be addressed, top of the list.
Morning Wire
Is California Ready to Vote Red? | 3.30.25
Well, I mean, first of all, we should be clear. I'm strongly considering running for governor myself in 2026. So we'll see. Kamala Harris has said that she's going to make a decision as to whether she would run in 2026 by the end of the summer. And I'm going to make my decision much sooner than that. So I probably should leave it there.
Morning Wire
Is California Ready to Vote Red? | 4.26.25
So that's nearly a fifth. That's a big deal. We saw a massive positive vote for Proposition 36. which was the one that, as its supporters, including me, we used to talk about it as making crime illegal again. Prop 36 was undoing the terrible damage of the Prop 47 that Kamala Harris pushed many years back, which basically legalized theft under $950 a day.
Morning Wire
Is California Ready to Vote Red? | 4.26.25
You saw defeats for George Gascon, the Soros-backed DA in Los Angeles County, the recall of the mayor in Oakland and the DA there. You saw the defeat of the mayor of San Francisco. So actually, there really is change building.
Morning Wire
Is California Ready to Vote Red? | 4.26.25
And all of that was before the terrible wildfire catastrophe in Los Angeles, which really woke people up to the scale of the Democrat extremism and incompetence that has just given us such terrible outcomes on every measure. That's what I've written about In my book, Califalia, which is based on every measure that matters, every single one.
Morning Wire
Is California Ready to Vote Red? | 4.26.25
California, under this one party rule that we've had for so long from Democrats, we're literally the worst in America, not just in the middle somewhere. We have the highest rate of poverty, the highest taxes, the highest cost for housing, gas, electricity, water. We have the worst business climate 10 years in a row. It's a complete failure on every front.
Morning Wire
Is California Ready to Vote Red? | 4.26.25
And I think finally, people are waking up to it.
Morning Wire
Is California Ready to Vote Red? | 4.26.25
It's a really great question because one of the things that I've been really trying to convey to people is that when people say, oh, California is such a deep blue state, no chance of ever electing a Republican, forget about it. What I've been pointing out for years is that it's already and has been for years a much more Republican state than people think. I did the math on this.
Morning Wire
Is California Ready to Vote Red? | 4.26.25
The last time Republicans won an election statewide was 2006, Arnold Schwarzenegger's re-election. Since then, Republicans haven't won. But if you take the average share of the vote across all statewide elections since then, the number you get to is 41.7 percent. So that's not 50, but it's a lot more than people think. Let's call it 40 percent is the baseline.
Morning Wire
Is California Ready to Vote Red? | 4.26.25
That is a higher base than a lot of people think. And so it's not out of reach, especially when you just see the total collapse of confidence in the state's leadership in the form of Karen Bass or Gavin Newsom in relation to the wildfires, and just the accumulating pain of the economic cost of these far-left policies.
Morning Wire
Is California Ready to Vote Red? | 4.26.25
No, how can a Democrat be the answer to the problems of California? It's the Democrats who caused them. I think you've got to be very clear about that. The only way to get the change we need in California is to elect a Republican. And I think that the Democratic Party and Democratic candidates...
Morning Wire
Is California Ready to Vote Red? | 4.26.25
wherever they position themselves on the spectrum, they're tied in to some of the structural factors that have driven these terrible policy outcomes. For example, the dependence on the unions, the way that the Democratic Party, regardless of where people stand on the spectrum, are completely in hock.
Morning Wire
Is California Ready to Vote Red? | 4.26.25
to the activists who drive the Democratic Party and basically determine its ideological positioning. You just saw this, by the way, revealed from Rick Caruso just the other day on my podcast, The Steve Hilton Show, Nicole Shanahan, who I'm working very closely with on the Karen Bass recall in Los Angeles. She was, of course, Bobby Kennedy's running mate. And Rick Caruso,
Morning Wire
Is California Ready to Vote Red? | 4.26.25
who's a Democrat now, just came out against the recall of Karen Bass. And Nicole, who's been working to get that up and running, spoke to him and said, well, why? Why are you against this? When he actually gave his public remarks, It was all going, oh, this is a time for unity and blah, blah, blah. But actually, he revealed the real reason. He didn't want to be labeled a racist.
Morning Wire
Is California Ready to Vote Red? | 4.26.25
That's what he said, which shows you the power of this kind of Democrat machine. You know, people don't want to go up against it. We have to go up against it. only way we get the change we need is to actually defeat the Democrat machine. And that's why I would say the only hope for bringing sanity back to California is a Republican election victory.
Morning Wire
Is California Ready to Vote Red? | 4.26.25
Look, the state legislature has a Democratic supermajority. They have more than two thirds. So I think the argument would be to Californians, look, it's time for a bit of balance. It's not healthy to have one party rule with these terrible ideas being implemented at every level of government.
Morning Wire
Is California Ready to Vote Red? | 4.26.25
No, it's completely avoidable. Like so many of the problems in California, they're preventable. Because what you've seen is the dominance of climate extremism. And that has driven a terrible approach to managing the fire risk.
Morning Wire
Is California Ready to Vote Red? | 4.26.25
Because whether that is the overgrown forests in the Sierras, where you see a lot of the really big wildfires, or as we tragically saw in Los Angeles, the brush that's on the coastal mountain ranges, they haven't been cleared. They haven't been managed. We used to do it. It used to happen.
Morning Wire
Is California Ready to Vote Red? | 4.26.25
You talk to people who live in Southern California, it was a regular site for them to see controlled burns on the hillsides or people going and managing the brush. Residents wanted to do it. But it's the California Air Resources Board, which has been implementing an extreme climate agenda that has prevented this from happening.
Morning Wire
Is California Ready to Vote Red? | 4.26.25
So there are ways that we can live happily and safely in our beautiful environment in California and experience the number of homes we build right across the state. We have a massive housing shortage. That's why we have the highest housing costs in the country. But we need to abandon this extreme environmentalism, this climatism, if we're going to actually make that happen.
Morning Wire
Is California Ready to Vote Red? | 4.26.25
That's the question that people are asking all the time. By the way, that $1 billion deficit, that's not California. That's the city of Los Angeles. It's not even Los Angeles County. It's the city of LA, which is one of 80 or so cities in the county of Los Angeles. So $1 billion just for the city deficit. Absolute joke. And as you say, that's the question. Where's the money going?
Morning Wire
Is California Ready to Vote Red? | 4.26.25
Because we pay the highest taxes in the country. The budget of the state of California has nearly doubled in the last 10 years, even while everything gets worse. And the answer to the question, where's all the money going, is it's going to the luxury pensions and health care that have been given to the government unions that fund the Democratic Party. That's a huge part of it, those contracts.
Morning Wire
Is California Ready to Vote Red? | 4.26.25
And that's basically total corruption. That's the cronyism, which is another factor I look at in my book, Califalia. It's going in total corruption with the homeless issue. I mean, if you look at the audits that have been done, I think it's up to $38 billion just in the last few years that have been I don't even want to say spent, like completely wasted. They can't keep track of it.
Morning Wire
Is California Ready to Vote Red? | 4.26.25
Homelessness has simply gone up. It's gone into the pockets of homeless nonprofits, connected crony developers who build so-called permanent supportive housing for the homeless people at $700,000, $800,000 per unit with absolutely no requirement for sobriety or job training or any kind of services or treatment. So it's just this complete mess. And because the Democrats...
Morning Wire
Is California Ready to Vote Red? | 4.26.25
felt like they have it all to themselves. They haven't had a real political challenge. They assume that Democrats are always going to be in charge. So you get a total complacency, corruption, lack of new thinking. That's what's been going on. And so the fact that we have this massively bloated government
Morning Wire
Is California Ready to Vote Red? | 4.26.25
presiding over catastrophically failing services and outcomes is a really big part of the argument for why we need change. And we need to get some balance into California government because you're not going to get the Democrats sorting all this stuff out.
Morning Wire
Is California Ready to Vote Red? | 4.26.25
Yes, 100%. The poll you're talking about, there's been a couple, actually, in the last few days. One had 50% of Californians open to voting for a Republican candidate for governor. Another one had 48%. And the feeling that we can't go on like this in California has been building now for such a long time.
Morning Wire
Is California Ready to Vote Red? | 4.26.25
Well, you're completely right. And it's a real tragedy that people feel they have to leave California to achieve what used to be associated with the California dream. And it's not that long ago, decades, but within living memory, that California was the most affordable place to live. I mean, it seems impossible to imagine that now. But people are leaving because they just can't make it work.
Morning Wire
Is California Ready to Vote Red? | 4.26.25
So I think the answer to the question about where's this support come from, I think if you look into the demographics, is for a long time, actually, in recent years, when you look at party registration, not voting, but party registration, Republicans were actually third. Hmm. It was Democrat and what's known in California as NPP, no party preference, independents, if you like.
Morning Wire
Is California Ready to Vote Red? | 4.26.25
But the theory was a lot of people said that actually the no party preference, the independents who are registered as such, they're really Republicans, but they can't bring themselves to say that publicly. Now, in the last couple of years, Republicans' vote registration has actually overtaken NPP. So now Republican registration is second.
Morning Wire
Is California Ready to Vote Red? | 4.26.25
And it seems to me that some of this shift is coming from independents who now feel more comfortable saying they're Republicans. They're a really big group. And I think the really important part of the conversation we can't leave out is the demographics of the state. The largest group in California now are Latinos. Forty percent of the state is Latino.
Morning Wire
Is California Ready to Vote Red? | 4.26.25
And if you look at what's happening across the country with the Latino vote, particularly, of course, with President Trump in this recent election, that is a massive opportunity for Republicans because the working class Latino vote, those are the people who are most being hammered by the Democrats' policies.
Morning Wire
Is California Ready to Vote Red? | 4.26.25
And that is the opportunity, I think, for Republicans to say, look, we are the party that can give you that promise of the California dream and a better life.
Morning Wire
Is California Ready to Vote Red? | 4.26.25
So I think that the true answer to that is... The overall size and scope and bloat of government that makes it impossible to do anything. That's a sort of broad answer. But actually, if you dive into each of the policy issues, which is what I've been doing, whether that's housing or the fact that we don't have reliable, affordable electricity and the gas prices are too high.
Morning Wire
Is California Ready to Vote Red? | 4.26.25
And if you're in the Central Valley and you're trying to make a living as a farmer, they're taking away your water. All of this is driven by this massive bloated economy. regulatory onslaught, this harassment of anyone who tries to do anything.
Morning Wire
Is California Ready to Vote Red? | 4.26.25
I mean, I used to back in the day in England, I ran restaurants and I love talking to restaurant owners because it's such a good kind of barometer of what's actually going on at the community level. I just don't know how anyone does it in California.
Morning Wire
Is California Ready to Vote Red? | 4.26.25
You saw a real move forward in the right direction, as I would see it, in the elections last year, in November. Ten counties flipped. from blue to red, including major counties like Fresno County in the Central Valley, the fifth biggest city in California. So 10 counties shifting from Democrat to Republican. We actually only don't have that many counties in California. It's 58.
Morning Wire
Is California Ready to Vote Red? | 4.26.25
Just the endless regulations and the labor regulations, the minimum wage going up, the harassment from the tax authorities, the environmental regulations I mentioned, the permits and the endless bureaucracy. So I think that is the number one factor.
Morning Wire
Is California Ready to Vote Red? | 4.26.25
that's causing a problem, and therefore, the number one place to start with reform is just, I mean, a simple way of putting it would be Doge California, because actually, the scale of government attacks on people just trying to live their lives, run a business, raise a family, at the state level in California,
Morning Wire
Is California Ready to Vote Red? | 4.26.25
I think is much, much worse, even than what you see with the federal government in Washington. Because, of course, at least at the federal level, you've had Republican administrations alternating with Democrat ones. And so you've had the injection of conservative ideas to a certain extent. That's not happened in Sacramento. It's just been all left, left, left for decades.
Morning Wire
Is California Ready to Vote Red? | 4.26.25
And so you've got this enormous bloated government and bureaucracy. I think that's what needs to be addressed. Top of the list.
Morning Wire
Budget Bill Win & DC Attack | 5.23.25
This is a huge victory for prosperity, for lower taxes. We go to the Senate. I think the Senate can actually improve on this bill. Do I love everything in this big, beautiful bill? No. There are some things I think that can be improved. But I want to remind people, one of the reasons this is so important
Morning Wire
Budget Bill Win & DC Attack | 5.23.25
And this was a giant hurdle to get over is this will help avert a $4 trillion tax increase on January 1st. And I want to remind all your viewers, I mean, this is despicable. Every single Democrat on the House floor yesterday, every single one of them voted for a $4 trillion tax increase.
Morning Wire
Budget Bill Win & DC Attack | 5.23.25
We have thousands of stories talking about it. And we have documentaries, we have news stories. Let me see the articles, please, if you would. And excuse me, turn the lights down.
The Dan Bongino Show
Dem Congresswoman Assaults Officer And Finds Out | Episode 47
It's an America. It's an amazing demonstration of the power and effectiveness of government when you've got people in charge who have really clear convictions. know what they want to do and are not afraid of using the authority of government to do the right things. And that shouldn't be unusual because that's how it should work all the time. But there's been such an absence of that.
The Dan Bongino Show
Dem Congresswoman Assaults Officer And Finds Out | Episode 47
Of course, at the national level under the Biden administration. But this is what you see in states like California. Just nothing happening. And people in charge just tolerating lawbreaking and total flouting of our basic values. And it just goes on year after year to the point where people just assume that's the way it's going to be. So when you see this new Trump administration, it still is new.
The Dan Bongino Show
Dem Congresswoman Assaults Officer And Finds Out | Episode 47
I mean, that's what's amazing. They've done so much. You know, just like they've packed like eight years worth of administration into a few months. It still is new. And they're just totally reminding us what government should be like and how it should behave. And that should be the norm. And it's so refreshing to see.
The Dan Bongino Show
Dem Congresswoman Assaults Officer And Finds Out | Episode 47
100% in governance, in the political system, in the media. I mean, of course, we should express our sympathy for him in his immediate medical condition, his family. That's all true. But there must be zero sympathy for him or his family or his aides or any of these people on a kind of basic political level because they knew all this. They knew all this about him. They knew that he was senile.
The Dan Bongino Show
Dem Congresswoman Assaults Officer And Finds Out | Episode 47
That was obvious to all of us. By the way, before the 2020 election on my show, when he was a candidate the first time around, I would run weekly segments. I think we called it the Biden comedy segment. I mean, it wasn't funny, but it kind of was funny. But you could see before the 2020 election, he wasn't fit to be president, but they pushed him anyway.
The Dan Bongino Show
Dem Congresswoman Assaults Officer And Finds Out | Episode 47
Because of his vanity, his narcissism, ego and ambition, all the people around him. And then once he was there, it was very evident he couldn't do the job mentally. Now we know that he had cancer, very serious cancer. The idea that this exactly Zeke Emanuel saying there's no way that this just popped up in the last few months.
The Dan Bongino Show
Dem Congresswoman Assaults Officer And Finds Out | Episode 47
And it's just an absolute outrage that this happened, that we had a president who clearly wasn't capable of doing the job. It's an outrage. And then of course, Kamala Harris, because she wanted to play the game so that she could one day win the game, totally ignoring her own responsibility to do something about this. These people, it's just an absolute scandal.
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And so it must be properly investigated, this coverup of the mental health condition of Biden, but now the physical health condition as well. Unbelievable that this happened.
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Yes, and I'll give you a story. I mean, but the really horrifying thing just to go back to Kamala Harris for a moment, is that we had two people at the top who were basically incapable of doing the job. I'll get to Kamala Harris in a second. I've got a specific story about that. But of course, you see Biden.
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I mean, to me, one of the most chilling details of the revelations, actually, this wasn't in the new set of revelations. This came out last year, was that Biden in his one-to-one meetings with senior officials, including there was a specific example cited of the defense secretary. The meetings were scripted, one-to-one meetings. This is not like he's going out in public and needs to make a speech.
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This is an internal meeting. with the defense secretary and the meeting is scripted. I think what is going on? And that's all published. So the people around the world know, of course they see him, all the stories about him falling asleep and being incapable. And they just think, well, I suppose we have to deal with the AIDS then.
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But getting back to Kamala Harris, someone on the world stage told me, that they were in a meeting, a one-to-one meeting with her on, I believe the topic was AI and the future of AI. And she basically read everything from notes that were written for her. Couldn't engage in a conversation. She's the vice president. The laughingstock that this makes America.
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And, of course, now we have this strong, swaggering leadership, again, which is what we should expect from America and what the world should expect from America. But, I mean, these last four years were so shocking.
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Well, it's a fantastic example. I mean, I know him very well. He's a friend of mine, actually. Really good guy. And he's also really diving. I'm speaking to you from L.A. right now. And, you know, just arriving here yesterday evening, you still have this kind of the third world conditions of, you know, that shame us with the homelessness and so on. And of course, the U.S. attorney is also
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has launched an investigation into that, into where the billions of dollars of taxpayer money went, given that we still have these appalling conditions. But it's again an example of how, again, it's just enforcing the law. This is not some outlandish political ideology at work. It is like the basic principle that we should all expect, that we have laws and we should enforce them.
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I mean, here in California, You have a situation where the Democrats who've been in charge now for 15 years, they love passing laws. You're amazing at passing laws. Thousands of new laws every year coming out of the state legislature, they seem to have some aversion to actually enforcing the law.
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And so you have at the federal level now, thanks to President Trump, someone who's aggressively doing that. And it just sends them, but it shows you the possibility. And my argument is, imagine if we had that at the state level in California, how quickly we could actually turn things around in California, which has gone so far off the rails because of this far left ideology.
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Well, it's contributed to every single one of the dire problems that people face here. So the number one issue, if you actually look at the data on why people are leaving California, the number one reason is the housing crisis, because it's so insanely expensive. to live here. We have the highest housing costs in the country because of the very simple supply and demand problem.
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Population going up, not enough housing being built. But why is the population going up? Here's a point that Gavin Newsom, like Gavin Newsom the other week, launched a new fact-checking website. because he obviously hasn't got enough to do. You know, being governor, he's launching a podcast, then he launched a new website. The first target of his fact-checking website was me.
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And he accused me of lying when I said that people are leaving California because he said our population is going up. Well, I looked at the numbers. Our population is going up. But it's not because people are moving to California or not leaving. It's because of illegal immigration. That's why our population's going up.
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And you see the impact of that in the schools, in the public schools, where you have so many students now in public schools that don't speak English. Of course, that's affecting the education of everyone else. Our budget deficit just now, why? $12 billion he's put in the budget, that's the size of our deficit, for illegal immigrant healthcare.
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when you have people struggling here to make ends meet. I mean, it's just an insult to every Californian.
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So you have to just look at the details of what goes on with Gavin Newsom. There's been a lot of misreporting last week, for example, about Gavin Newsom's move to becoming more moderate as it is running for president, which is clearly intending to do. Number one, it was the media just bought his BS last week, that he's finally getting tough on homelessness.
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Of course, that's what he wanted people to write. He issued model ordinances, this was a week ago, which was reported as getting tough on homelessness. First of all, it wasn't doing anything. It was like a list of suggestions, no action at all. Secondly, if you actually look at them, read what he put out, he wasn't talking about removing homeless encampments.
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He was talking about moving them, literally moving them, and specifically 200 yards every three days. That's what he actually put out. His budget was reported as raining back on illegal immigrant health care than what we've just been discussing. But if you look in the detail of the budget, he actually increased spending on it. You look at what he said to Charlie Kirk about
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biological men and girls sports being deeply unfair. What's he done about that? Nothing. Weeks after he said that there was legislation in the state legislature put forward by Republicans that would have banned that, which he just told us he thought was deeply unfair. What did he do about it? Nothing. The truth about Gavin Newsom is he's not particularly it's not that he's far left.
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It's not that it's that he's nothing. He's a classic machine politician, just like Biden, just like Kamala Harris, just like Karen Bass in LA. They don't believe in anything. They don't have any convictions. They just go along with whatever's, wherever the power is. And that's the most dangerous thing in a politician. They're weak. They don't believe in anything. They won't stand up for anything.
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That means they get pushed around. Nothing happens. And the bureaucracy, the machine, the activists, the unions, whoever's got the power rolls all over them.
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100%. It is very important. I've always thought in politics to be accurate in your criticisms, not just make sort of sweeping insults that aren't true. And so when I hear people say, oh, Gavin Newsom, far left, he's not far left. He's not anything. And that's why it's really dangerous. It's actually worse than someone like a Bernie who really clearly does believe in the far left socialist agenda.
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At least you know what you're dealing with. And he's sincere about it. But with these machine politicians like Newsom, Biden, they're all the same. They're the most dangerous, exactly to say they can be bought, they can be corrupted by whatever is in power with the money. That's why the unions run.
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I was yesterday in a meeting with In-N-Out Burger, the owner of In-N-Out Burger and the executive team. They are being completely assaulted almost to death by Gavin Newsom and the unions. Why is Gavin Newsom teaming up with the unions to assault one of our iconic businesses in California? Because they pay him to do that. They give him donations.
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And that's why he's increasing spending on government bureaucrats, even when we have a deficit. In his budget last week, he increased spending on state bureaucrats by 18%. Why? Because they're his biggest donors, the government unions.
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Yes, the answer is yes. And I always say, put it the same way. I think it's very difficult to win, but not impossible. And therefore we should try, because we can't just let California slide further into decline and chaos. It's our biggest state in terms of population, economy. It's an iconic state. It represents so much of what America should be.
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I say often California means to America what America means to the world. the very best of our great American values. So it's worth fighting for. Look, you saw in 2024 signs of progress. Ten counties flipped from blue to red. You saw the ballot initiatives on many issues go the Republicans' way. President Trump got more votes than any Republican president for a generation.
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If everybody, if all the Trump voters in California come out for me, I'll win. The real point is this, though. Yeah. The 2026 election in California is going to be about change. It's obvious that we need change. And so if they put up someone like Kamala Harris or any of these Democrats, to be honest, their record is so terrible in California.
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I think the basic argument that we can't go on like this, that this is not OK. And even if you elect a Republican governor, the Democrats will still control the legislature. So it's just a bit of balance that we're calling for. I think these are really powerful arguments, and I'm very confident I can make it.
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I love it. Thanks a lot. Bye-bye. See you, Vince.