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The Tudor Dixon Podcast: Steve Hilton: How Democrat Rule Destroyed California and How Republicans Can Take It Back
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Tudor Dixon
This is an iHeart podcast.
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Bobby Bones
Hey, it's Bobby from the Bobby Bones Show. I had an incredible time at this year's iHeartRadio music festival and even got the chance to hang out with Diplo and Bailey Zimmerman while I was there. How did Ashes come together? Diplo?
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Diplo
I pulled up real quick. He was about to leave on tour. You're about to jump in your tour bus and we had like three hours. It was really cool. He literally just like randomly showed up to my house and I'm like, oh, hey Diplo, what are you doing? He's like, I have a song that I want to show you. And I was like, okay.
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Bobby Bones
You can listen to the full episode out now, wherever you get your podcast. And big shout out to my friends at Hyundai for making this possible. Had a blast cruising around festival weekend in the all new Palisade hybrid.
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Tudor Dixon
America is changing and so is the world. But what's happening in America isn't just.
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Steve Hilton
A cause of global upheaval. It's also a symptom of disruption that's happening everywhere.
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Tudor Dixon
I'm Asma Khalid in Washington, D.C. i'm.
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Steve Hilton
Tristan Redman in London and this is the Global Story.
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Tudor Dixon
From this intersection where the world and America meet.
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Steve Hilton
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Tudor Dixon
Welcome to the Tudor 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 date that some people said would one day fall into the ocean. But 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 Stevie Hilton with us. Thank you so much for joining the Tudor Dixon Podcast.
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Steve Hilton
Oh, Judah, it's so fantastic to be with you. I really, really loved your campaign. I followed that so closely. We were with you and I feel in spirit we're on the same kind of journey, trying to bring sanity to our state. I know it's easy, but we gotta go for it, right? That's how we feel, you and I.
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Tudor Dixon
Absolutely. And as I'm. I. So I try to do a little research 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 legalized this in I think 2016, so people can actually go door to door, gather up ballots and take them in for someone else. That blows my mind. How do you get past that?
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Steve Hilton
Well, you're right. And that's just one example of the insanity. There are so many ways in which the democrats over these 15 years now of one party rule where they've controlled everything in California. They've had the governors seat, they've had all the statewide offices, total control of the legislature with a super majority, all the 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, I assume. When I first heard that term I thought that's gotta be a joke. They would, if that was real, they would never give it such a corrupt sounding name.
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Tudor Dixon
What are you talking about?
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Steve Hilton
Ballot harvesting? 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. 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. The voter rolls. The last count is coming down with some great action by some. Some friends and supporters of mine. We're cleaning up the voter rolls. Not that long ago, you had 5 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 10 ballots in my house, in the hallway, pushed through the mail, dead people, 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' before Election Day. You have seven days after Election Day for it to be counted, that 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 we're actually elected. So my message always is just as President Trump said with the presidential election last time, we got to make it too big to rig, swamp the vote. The only response here is we gotta do it, too, and we gotta do it better than them. So let's get out and we do our own ballot harvesting and we make sure that our vote. Votes get in early and are counted. 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.
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Tudor Dixon
That's what I was gonna 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 believe, second, that they have organically won these elections. And I think the people of California are very fed up. I know Rick Grinnell has worked out, out in California, very hard to get congressional seats. I think you can win.
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Steve Hilton
Yes. Well, let me just lay out, Judy. I mean, you know, this. You know, the numbers are 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 Californ now, pretty steady majority for the last 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. It's over 60%. It's not a small number. And so people know we need change. That's the first point. Secondly, in the elections last year in 2024, 10 counties out of 58 flipped from blue to red, including some big counties like Fresno, 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 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, 11.8 million. So to win, you need 5.9 million, roughly just over half. President Trump last year got 6.1 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 change next year. And there's one final ingredient that should give us optimism. There's a ballot initiative that we are collecting signatures for right now in California to get voter ID on the ballot for next November. If we have that, Republicans love voter id, 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 this next year.
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Tudor Dixon
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 the. Everything that went on there. We're looking at, from the, 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, the dirty streets, it's just not the beautiful California that it was in so many of these areas. There's got to be a lot of motivation to change that.
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Steve Hilton
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 moved here in 2012 with my wife and my two sons from England, became, became an American in 2021. So I've been here 13 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 15 years now of one party rule. And really you've had very little interruption. They've had the state legislature for nearly 30 years. And so the piling on of ridiculous regulations and taxes, anything 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 and chaos and the squalor, as you say, just the dirt and the squalor and the stink. Honestly, it's disgusting. I mean, I'm often in doubt downtown Los Angeles. And you just walk around and it stinks, I'm sorry to say, urine and feces. What are you talking about?
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Tudor Dixon
Right. And that'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 to give up the hundreds of millions of dollars. All these people getting paid now, that's how government works. There needs to be someone who's gonna go in there and say, come on, where's your, where's your heart? Where's your kindness? When are you gonna 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 a solution here. It's just that it doesn't want to be taken.
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Steve Hilton
You're so right. That's how I argue it the whole time. I say, 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 ideological. Oh, we can't. You know, there's a law that was passed 2016 called Housing first, which is that any organization working with homeless people to provide shelter or accommodation, whatever, you cannot require any kind of behavior change in response. You can't require. Require sobriety. You can't get people off drugs, you can't get them into mental health.
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Tudor Dixon
Solution.
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Steve Hilton
No, it's just insane. And then actually, that cruelty that you talk about and the heartlessness, I think that is the story of these ideologues more generally. Because if you look at the issue, obviously homelessness, crime, the things we've been talking about, those are very visible signs of California's decline. 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, everything's a disaster. We literally right now have the highest unemployment rate in America, the highest poverty rate in America, the highest taxes, highest cost 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's been so assaulted by these insurance companies. Unless you illegally cross the border, well, then you're fine. And you, I mean, no joke. I mean, I know people can't afford.
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Tudor Dixon
Laughing. I wish that were a joke, but that's not a joke.
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Steve Hilton
So you can't. 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. Taxpayer spending for free healthcare for illegal immigrants. And now you have in Los Angeles just now, biggest county in the country, 10 million people. Huge county. It's about 23% of California's population. And you've got. The Board of Supervisors there just voted this week for what they called an immigration emergency to give taxpayer handout rent to pay the rent of illegal immigrants who are affected by 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, you've had millions of illegal immigrants coming in, so there's not enough housing to cope. So that's pushed up the cost of housing. Regular people can't pay that. So what do 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 change next year.
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Tudor Dixon
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Bobby Bones
Hey, it's Bobby from the Bobby Bones show. I had an incredible time at this year's iHeartRadio music festival and even got the chance to hang out with Diplo and Bailey Zimmerman while I was there. Check this out. So how did Ashes come together, Diplo?
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Diplo
Well, I kind of briefly met Bailey, I think at Morgan's show, one of them. And I think he's just the guy in Nashville. He's cool as hell. And I had a new kind of sound I wanted to do and I think he's the one guy that could carry it. And I came to his house, I had a show, I pulled up real quick, he was about to leave on tour. You're about to jump in your tour bus. And we had like three hours play the record for him. We kind of like got a scratch and then he handled on his own on the road. Yeah, it was really cool. He literally just like randomly showed up.
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Steve Hilton
To my house and I'm like, oh, hey Diplo.
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Diplo
What are you doing? He's like I have a song that I want to show you. And I was like okay. And then now we're here playing it live.
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Bobby Bones
You can listen to the full episode out now wherever you get your podcasts and big shout out to my friends at Hyundai for making this possible. Had a blast cruising around festival weekend in the all new Palisade hybrid.
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Tudor Dixon
America is changing and so is the world. But what's happening in America isn't just.
- [17:50]
Steve Hilton
The cause of global upheaval. It's also a symptom of disruption that's happening everywhere.
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Tudor Dixon
I'm Asma Khalid in Washington, D.C. i'm.
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Steve Hilton
Tristan Redman in London and this is the Global story.
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Podcast Advertiser
Every weekday we'll bring you a story.
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Tudor Dixon
From this intersection where the world and America meet.
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Steve Hilton
Listen on BBC.com or wherever you get your podcasts.
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Tudor Dixon
Another 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, 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, and it's still, 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 your home burned down. You have a mortgage, you have no place to live and you can't rebuild.
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Steve Hilton
It's. It's so offensive. And again, the way you put it is so right. That's just heartless because it's this bureaucratic mindset. So you at some of the numbers now? Malibu, where you mentioned Malibu. 600 homes burned. Two permits have been issued, two ridiculous. For rebuilding. If you look at all the burned areas, it's under 10% of the, of the number of homes burnt, permits issued. And it really gets to the heart of why these Democrats are so utterly useless. I'll just give you this quote from Karen Bass. It just tells you so much about how they, how these people think. Few months ago now, maybe four or five months ago, she did remember, by the way, that 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 people just, they could go back tomorrow, they could clear their own plane. 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 on social media. Her post said these words, I, Karen Bass, I have just signed an executive order streamlining permitting so people can rebuild in la. And okay, that's good. Months late, but whatever. But there was a video underneath of her actual, actual announcement of the press conference. 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 is that? That's nothing. That's total bureaucratic bs. Nothing's going to happen. No change is just some BS process that she set up.
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Tudor Dixon
I'll tell you what I hear.
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Steve Hilton
Sorry, just right. You know, people I speak to every day, they said they go to the building department. The building department says you've got to go to that department, you got to get your insurance. They go to insurance, they say you need a permit before we get. It's just nightmare for people.
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Tudor Dixon
I mean, it's 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. It is. 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 a, also a situation where you have a massive out of control illegal 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.
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Steve Hilton
Exactly. Again, highest taxes in the country. Here's another. I mean, you, 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, I worked all over the world in business, started my own companies, including here in California. I ran restaurants in England. That is a tough business. So I know about budgets. You know, you look at the budget of the state of California, in the last 10 years, they've doubled. The budget doubled. And everything's worse. And you think what? These people have no clue how to run anything properly. There's no, exactly as you say. They're not even interested in results and outcomes. And did that happen and what happened to that money and why didn't it work? None of that. It's just the press release making the announcement.
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Tudor Dixon
I was just watching this old 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 deficit. And he said, yeah, it's a huge deficit. You know, that's a thing. And, and, and I think Democrats are so used to just getting away with this. And I give the interview, the interviewer credit because he really pushed back on him and he had just dropped out of the race for governor at that point. This was, 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 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 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. And the interviewer asked her, what are you gonna do to get those votes? And she was like appalled. So I want to play this for you so that people if you missed, can hear. This is what the opponent is like. Here it is. Do you think you need any of those 40% of California voters to win? And you're saying no, you don't? 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. Okay, so, so you. I don't want to keep doing this. I'm going to call it. Thank you. You're not going to do the interview with us? Nope, not like this I'm not. Not with seven follow ups to every single question you ask. Ask every other candidate has answered. I don't care. I, I want to have a pleasant, positive conversation which you ask 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 going to circle around. I have never had to do this before, ever. You've never had to have a conversation with, okay, but every other candidate has done this. 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 with you and I don't want this all on camera.
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Tudor Dixon
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. It 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? How could you possibly concentrate on a solution for homelessness? That's an unhappy situation for Katie Porter.
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Steve Hilton
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 a. 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. I said, okay, here are seven follow up questions. Katie Port, number one. Why do we have the highest unemployment rate in America? Why do we have the highest poverty? Anyway, we spliced it together very. It was fun. But look, the attitude that 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 their failures. No accountability. Even the idea of accountability is offensive to them. Like, how dare you question me. That's what you get. Get with this one party rule, this arrogant, insular, ruling elite. That's what you get.
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Tudor Dixon
And the funny thing is that 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.
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Steve Hilton
It's exactly right. And, and to your point even further in the interview, she's talking about, well, there'll be a Republican and they assume that a Republican can't win, so who cares? And that's why they've gone so extreme, actually, because they just don't think they're ever gonna get a challenge from the other side. And so it's entirely about pandering to the people who really pull the 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.
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Tudor Dixon
I didn't see that.
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Steve Hilton
Oh my. Okay, let me just. So she's also running for governor. She's like way down, as you say in the polls. It's basically most of the polls show me and Katie Porter as the top two. And we 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 control. And she was on. We were both on Piers Morgan and to talk about Katie Porter. And Betty 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 Yves, just out 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 pounced. 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 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 to be, you want to be the governor of during the LA Olympics in 2028. 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. And 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, well, maybe probably track and field. He's track and field. What are you talking about?
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Tudor Dixon
Worst one.
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Steve Hilton
And no, it's insane. It's just as much of a car crash as Katie Porter. And then he said like, okay, what examples? What do you mean? And she's well, you know, the shorter races. He said, what, like the 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 was a yes, I think that's what, you know, we should have. Yes, a gender Neutral Olympics for la. Wow. And this is. Is. I mean, only someone who's just totally uninterested in the views of normal people and only. And her constituents only cares about pandering to the activists who really control the party would say such a thing. But that's. That's who they are these days in California.
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Tudor Dixon
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Bobby Bones
Hey, it's Bobby from the Bobby Bones show. I had an incredible time at this year's iHeartRadio music festival and even got the chance to hang out with Diplo and Bailey Zimmerman while I was there. Check this out. So how did Ashes come together, Diplo?
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Diplo
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Steve Hilton
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Bobby Bones
You can listen to the full episode out now, wherever you get your podcasts. And big shout out to my friends at Hyundai for making this possible. Had a blast cruising around festival weekend in the all new Palisade hybrid.
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Tudor Dixon
This is going to be so fun for you. And I say that because they have never been asked questions before 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 have probably experienced the same thing. When I was running, I think it was an NBC. I don't know if you were there. I'm 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, 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 fo. 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 like a gotcha interview. We'll sit down with you. Can you imagine them doing that to a Democrat? I mean, Katie Porter would just lose her mind.
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Steve Hilton
Exactly. They've never had. It's exactly right. And you. The pressure in California, the media in California are just. They assume that these people are gonna 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 Kamala House, oh my gosh. This was the consequence when we didn't put someone put through their paces.
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Tudor Dixon
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 and you know, and Whitmer 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, cuddle her, stick a bottle in her mouth. She's great. 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. Like, you Watch it as a woman. And you're like, no, no, stop saying these stupid things.
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Steve Hilton
I know. I've always said that. That's why, you know, like, and, and they, they always go to sexism and blame sexism when they, you know, Hillary did it and Kamala does it. And you just think it's so insulting. Look at all the fantastic conservative women leaders that have been elected all over the world. You know, in. In my home and you in the uk, Margaret Thatcher, of course. And, you know, there's so many examples. And you, you know, and, and it's just, it's so pathetic that when they have terrible candidates who happen to be women, they say, oh, of course it's sexism. No, it's because they're useless.
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Tudor Dixon
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, we. It's very hard for Republican women to be taken seriously on channels like MSNBC and cnn and, 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 the next race and doesn't automatically say, obviously my vice president is the choice, then everybody knows you were only put there for one reason, and it's not because you can lead the country.
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Steve Hilton
He said, I mean, he said it 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, going to be a black woman. So it's. You can't argue with that. He said it.
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Tudor Dixon
Right. 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, 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 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.
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Steve Hilton
Basis, exactly. Because identity is everything to them.
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Tudor Dixon
Yes.
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Steve Hilton
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's 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 everything just throwing off this. No, we don't have to say that anymore. 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 lightness now that we don't have to go along with this nonsense. But the Democrats, the politicians, they're still stuck there. They still talk like this. They haven't realized that the whole country's moved on.
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Tudor Dixon
That's right. And that's why you ended up in that situation with the men in women's sports and gender. 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 held host by aoc and AOC is a radical. And you see the Mamdani. I kind of loved that debate that we watched between Mamdani and Cuomo and Sliwa 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, they are wealthy. They have, they have these beautiful communities that are being. 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, it's like, oh, it's insane. The regulation is too much.
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Steve Hilton
The stories, I mean, there's so many stories. Everywhere I go you hear these stories. But just one, the other day that just was so unbelievable. Everyone here believes it because they experienced it. There was a lady, they 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 visitors for the wine tastings and lunch and whatever. And she. I think it was an increase from a capacity of 35 to 50 people. So, like, this is not some giant thing. She said it took her six years and a million dollars.
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Tudor Dixon
I know, I know.
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Steve Hilton
These inspections, mental compliance, that this to that. It's like. It's unbelievable how bad it is.
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Tudor Dixon
I could tell you so many stories from Michigan. I mean, we could honestly go on and on about this. I. I'm. 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 the squirrel that was killed by Governor Hochul in New York City or in New York State? Because it was. Yes. So. So right now in Michigan, there's a deer that. A blind deer that has been rescued, and it's at a rescue center. 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 this deer. I mean, this is the kind of government overreach that when people start hearing about it, they go, wait a minute. You 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 so important, because the governor has the ability to control these reg. 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 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, all the movies, clueless, everything. That was all based in California, you know, And. And we loved California. There was never, never. This tainted view of California is dirty and disgusting and I know you will bring back that gold in California that you talk about. That is it. So tell us. Okay, so tell people, because you're going to need money. You need help.
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Steve Hilton
Yes. This is a piece to go up against.
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Tudor Dixon
Yes, exactly.
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Steve Hilton
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're all. It's all. And they've had it all their own way for a long time. So please, please get involved. Steve hiltonforgovernor.com F O R stevehiltonforgovernor.com Send us a bit of money, but just sign up. There's a button that says get involved. We're just getting our volunteer army together now, so it's the perfect time. Steve HiltonForGovernor.com and as I pointed out.
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Tudor Dixon
Earlier, the army there is more important than, I think, any other place because their army can just grab ballots. We've gotta send people out there for you. So if you can go out there and help. Steve Hilton, thank you so much for coming on.
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Steve Hilton
Great to be with you. Really enjoyed it. Thank you.
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Tudor Dixon
Absolutely. And thank you all for listening to the Tutor Dixon podcast. As you know, you can get it on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasting. You can watch it on Rumble or YouTube uterdixon. And make sure you join us next time. Have a blessed day.
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Bobby Bones
Hey, it's Bobby from the Bobby Bones Show. I had an incredible time at this year's iHeartRadio music festival and even got the chance to hang out with Diplo and Bailey Zimmerman while I was there. How did Ashes come together, Diplo?
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Diplo
I pulled up real quick. He was about to leave on tour. You're about to jump in your tour bus and we had like three hours. It was really cool. He really just, like randomly showed up to my house. I'm like, oh, hey, Diplo, what are you doing? He's like, I have a song that I want to show you.
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Bobby Bones
And I was like, okay, you can listen to the full episode out now, wherever you get your podcasts. And big shout out to my friends at Hyundai for making this possible. Had a blast cruising around festival weekend in the all new Palisade hybrid.
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