CA Governor Candidate Steve Hilton on Why California is Destroying Itself & How a Republican Can Win
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Alright, everybody. Welcome back to the all in interview show. We're very lucky today to have a candidate for the governor of California who is extremely unique in a number of ways. First of all, he's a republican, and second, he's a Brit. Welcome to the program, Steve Pelton. You've decided to increase the degree of difficulty in two ways, but you're polling fantastic. You've got five or six people in the polls.
So He's leading the field.
You're leading the field. Obviously, it's gonna get narrowed a bit when the Democrats shiv a couple more people and get them out of the race and then pick their eventual winner in their cobble, whenever that happens, when Nancy Pelosi picks who's running. But, Steve, maybe you could start by telling sorry, guys. I got jones. But, Steve, maybe you could introduce yourself a bit and tell us why you're running.
Well, hang on. I Can just say just after that great intro where you just tried to kill my chances in just a couple of words, thanks a lot, Jason. Really appreciate it.
Let me add you to this up. I've known Steve since twenty twelve, twenty thirteen when he and his wife, Rachel Watson, moved to Silicon Valley. Rachel worked at Facebook initially, and then she worked with you, Jason, at Uber and then has had a great run. And then Steve, similarly and you said it in a funny way, but, ultimately, this is an incredible land of immigrants, and Steve has a really compelling story. So before we jump into the questions, I know your background, Steve, but I do think it's important. Go back to your parents, your mom, how you grew up, and just set the stage for how you
Thank you. Thank you. I appreciate that. And you're right. We've known each other a long time now, and it's a great joy to be here. By the way, just wanna say it's a great joy to be on a show where I don't have to wear the the suit and shirt, and, you know, that's one of the one of the things about running for governor that, I'm I'm loving most of it, but dressing up is not the favorite part for me. So it's great to be with you. I thought for this show, you know, we gotta get it right. I think that the back the more I think about my background, the more I think it is really important in in ter
notably, you became naturalized. You're citizen of The United States now, so you have dual citizenship. Less people are confused by the accent. Yes. You're running for governor, and you're a citizen of The United States.
Your political setup. So being a child of Hungarian immigrants raising communism, you're gonna hear a certain version of what the role of the state is versus what the role of the family or the individual is. Then growing up in The UK, I'm sure your attitudes either get cemented or changed. Give us the setup. What is the political evolution of Steve Hilton? What did he believe, and then what does he believe now, and what has shaped these beliefs?
It's really I think it goes back to just around that when I first really started thinking about it all, it was just as Margaret Thatcher was coming to power, and you'd had the seventies in England were a disaster and a decade that was just the the economy was completely stagnant and sclerotic. Unions ran everything. There was this period called the winter of discontent in 1979 when you had massive strikes. Famously, you know, the dead went unburied and trash was piled up in the street, just real collapse of everything, and that's what Thatcher came in to fix, and I really did identify with tha
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