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On November 3 this year, Californians will head to the polls to choose their next Governor.With incumbent Gavin Newsom - widely tipped to be eyeing up a White House bid - term-limited and ineligible to run, the race is heating up to lead America's most populous state.Last night, GB News' Ben Leo sat down with Steve Hilton, the British-born US citizen running to lead California.Mr Hilton, a former adviser to David Cameron during his time in No10, told Britain's News Channel: "It's amazing - when you look at California, it's now 16 years of one-party rule, 16 years where the Democrats have run everything."All the government, basically, is in the hands of Democrats, and the results are totally, catastrophically bad."It's easy to forget when you're in such a beautiful place. People may come here on holiday and think California's great - but you look at the homelessness, you can see the crime, those things are visible. But underlying that, what you don't see is the economic disaster."Mr Hilton also revealed why he does not miss living in Britain - and delivered a stark assessment of one of Donald Trump's most controversial policies.WATCH STEVE HILTON'S INTERVIEW IN FULL ABOVE
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Steve Hilton, thank you for welcoming us to your great state
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It's not bad, is it? Come on. I know. What a scenery
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Especially in DC, where we left at minus 15 and it's now 30 something here
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Anyway, thank you for being on the latest show live on GB News. You are a enigma because you were a Brit. Yes
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I mean, do you still consider yourself a Brit? I actually literally know. I've renounced my UK citizenship
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As of 2021? No, I became a US citizen 2021. I renounced my citizenship last year
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It's interesting, the government is obviously short of cash. They charge you on the way out £482 to renounce your citizenship
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So I've done that, yeah. Well look, because of that, you're an American citizen, that means you can now run and you are running for governor of California, the great state
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First of all, just tell our viewers who maybe aren't so familiar with you, why do you want to be governor of California
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So as some people might remember, I've worked in the past in politics
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I worked with David Cameron when he was in number 10. I've got a background in policy, always been interested in it
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Most of my career has actually been in business. I started companies back in the UK, including restaurants, a whole range of different businesses
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I did a tech startup here in California. So the reason I mention all that is that most of my career has actually been in doing things
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like making things happen. And that's how I kind of see what I've done in the past
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And then more recently in America, people know me through having hosted a show on Fox News
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Yes. Which was a very improbable and unexpected turn in my career
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And it was a great show as well. Very popular. Turn in my career. But actually, as the years went on, of course, I loved doing that. It was an amazing opportunity
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I'm really, really appreciative of it. But I just felt like the hankering to actually get back to doing things
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And so a few years ago, with no real intent to run for office of any kind, I set up a policy organization called Golden Together
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California is known as the Golden State and so that was the name of the
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organization I started traveling the state I just sort of dip my toe in the
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water really I've got started being asked to speak at Republican Party events all
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across the state I started meeting people I just really loved that actually
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and it showed me a whole side of the state that I hadn't seen before it's
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such an incredible place the range of different you know kinds of places the
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scenery the amazing beauty that we have in California but also the incredible
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you know different businesses like people know tech and Hollywood but there's so much more to California so all of that together just just got me
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more and more excited about doing something practical yeah for this state
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where I've raised my family started a business made my life here I love it I
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love California so much it's totally going off the rails it's a disaster I
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I was going to say much like Britain, great country. I love my country, of course. Oh, there you go some kiddos
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Much like Britain, of course, we need to pull ourselves up by our bootstraps, find our mojo again
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And I think maybe that's the consensus in California. Yeah. Great debate last night
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I think it looks like you won it according to a poll. Yes, I'll take it
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The leftist media said it was too close to call, so I'm not sure what's going on there. Well, I think I got 53% and the nearest person got about seven
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So I call that a win. Oh, yeah. Yeah, so in the debate you are original because your rivals they're all career politicians. Yes
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And as you just alluded to you know your background although you worked for David Cameron as director of strategy you're not you know you don't have a political background in office
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What do you offer that's different? Well I put that very clearly last night in the debate and that's been a theme of what
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I've been talking about which is I'm an outsider and we've got to shake this system up in California
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It is totally broken. It's amazing actually when you look at California, it's now 16 years of one party rule
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16 years where the Democrats have run everything. We have all these different branches of government in California, of course, you've got the executive
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branch, you've got the governor, lieutenant governor, attorney general, state superintendent of education
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All these posts are elected. So those are all held by Democrats and have been for at least 16 years
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state legislature totally controlled by democrats with a two-thirds majority for 16 years does that
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not make your task impossible though and then on top of that i mean we're here in la you've got
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uh we're actually literally in the city of beverly hills which actually isn't uh run by democrats but
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um la is the big counties are like all the government basically is in the hands of democrats
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and the results are totally catastrophically bad it's it's easy to forget when you're in such a
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beautiful place and people may come here on holiday and think California is
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great you know and they can see the hope the visible aspects of the failure right
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you can see the homelessness which is just an unbelievable disaster so it's
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hard to imagine how that's been allowed to go on like that for so long you look at the homelessness you can see the crime those things are visible but
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underlying that what you don't see is the economic disaster like right now
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California out of all 50 states in America we have the highest unemployment
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rate, the highest poverty rate, the highest cost of living, everything in a
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household budget, more expensive here than anywhere else, gas prices, electric, rent, groceries, everything. It's a disaster. And fraud and waste as well? They call it
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California. I called it California. You called it California. Yes, exactly, because it's just
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off the charts. Here's what's happened in California. In the last, like, in five
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years they've nearly doubled the budget doubled and everything's worse and where's the money going that's the number one question people are asking
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which is like we pay more and more in tax and we get worse and worse results
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what's going on and the more you look into it you and you're now seeing of
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obviously the people in charge in California right now of California right
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now they're Democrats they're not interested they love growing their bloated budgets because they can reward their cronies and they turn a blind
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eye to the fraud but you've got now from the federal government the Trump administration
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in the form of both the the federal Department of Justice and the U.S. Attorney here in California
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they've started bringing prosecutions and and and especially here in LA for the uh what's known as
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the homeless industrial complex yeah because this is the the other big kind of question which is
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How is it possible that we've spent more and more money, like every single year, on homelessness
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And the problem just gets worse. The more you spend, the more homeless. And in fact, the state auditor found, this was a couple of years ago
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that $24 billion had been spent on homelessness, that they had no idea where it went
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Yeah, crazy. And then the legislature, even the Democrat legislature, said let's have a detailed audit
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trying to find where the money went. And Gavin Newsom, the governor, vetoed that because he didn't want people to find out
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And so what you're seeing now, thanks to these prosecutions, we are finding out
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One guy took, stole, that's the right word for it, stole, $27 million, it's supposed to be for homelessness
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He bought a Range Rover luxury holidays you know like shopping Similar to what we seeing in Minnesota with the Somali fraud and so on Exactly And that just one of many Now what I said is that as governor and also with my running mate for state controller
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which is the position that has the power to audit every piece of state spending
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we're going to absolutely expose all of it and we're going to stop it
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Shad Bianco, who is your only Republican rival, he was missing from the debate last night
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Yeah. You say he's got more baggage than LAX. You call him BLM Bianco
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BLM Bianco, yes. What was the other one? Oh, the shifty sheriff. The shifty sheriff. Because he's the sheriff of Riverside
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He's the sheriff of Riverside County. I appreciate his service. Law enforcement, of course, is what we all depend on to keep us safe
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But he did something that a lot of Republicans just can't accept
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which is in 2020, during the Black Lives Matter riots in Riverside
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as sheriff, the BLM, as they refer to it here, the BLM activists
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they were running around everywhere doing this, take a knee, take a knee
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I remember the mayor of L.A. at the time, Eric Garcetti, they did it to him
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I remember, I'd never heard of Chad Bianco at the time. I wasn't aware of what he did
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I remember seeing the mayor of LA with the BLM mob outside his house saying
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take a knee, and he did it there in the street. I remember thinking that is one of the most pathetic things I've ever seen
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Yeah. To bend the knee to the mob. Keir Starmer did it as well. Right, well, Chad Bianco did it
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But Chad Bianco says he was praying or something. What says he's doing? Well, I said last night in the debate, watch the video and you judge for yourself
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We put it up, blmbianco.org. But just playing devil's advocate, what is, you know, it was a high pressure time
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Cities being burnt down, you know, the death of George Floyd. You could say he was under pressure
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Everybody's under pressure to take the knee and just appear to be doing the good thing. Well, it's when you're under pressure that your character is most exposed
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And it's exactly when you're under pressure that you're supposed to stand up to the pressure if you're a real leader
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So that's highly revealing that he didn't. Hang on a second. even if you can make the case for why he did it, which I don't accept
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I remember seeing Garcetti do it and thinking that's pathetic. At least own it. At least explain why you did it
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Don't pretend you were praying. It's ridiculous. So there's no clips of you taking the knee back in 2020, 2021
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If you find them, then please let me know. I'm very confident you won't
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Do you want Bianco to drop out the race now? Yeah, it's very important. We've got this ridiculous system in California
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They call it the top two system. As the name suggests, instead of what you normally have in most other places
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which is a Democrat primary and a Republican primary, you've got everyone on the same ballot, all the candidates, regardless of party
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and whoever comes in the top two, they go forward to the general election runoff
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And just because of the way that works in California, you've had many different races for different positions
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where you've ended up with two Democrats in the top two. just the way the maths work works out of the vote share and if that happens this time it's a
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disaster for california you're guaranteed another four years of one party rule no change everything
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will get worse the stagnation the unemployment the poverty the soaring cost of living all that's
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just going to get worse the the climate insanity the the the pathetic response on crime and
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homelessness, the school results were a disaster. I mean, on and on. We've got to have, at the very
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least, a choice. Because if you have two Democrats, the voters don't even have a choice. And so it's
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very important. Now, right now, we're pretty much neck and neck in the polls, honestly
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me and Chad Bianco. Sometimes I'm leading and he's second. Other times he's leading, I'm second. So
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you could say it's tied when it comes to the polls. But he's splitting the vote. Exactly. And if we're
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not careful, we'll split the Republican vote and allow two Democrats in. So I very strongly
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am making the case, we've got to get behind the strongest Republican candidate, and that's
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me. I don't have that kind of baggage, and I've got the business experience, the government
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reform experience, the policy expertise across the board to do the job and to win the election
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Can I ask though, it is a Republican stronghold, a Democrat stronghold, 14 years or so. We even
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went for a walk at the Hollywood Hills last night. We met a lovely dog walker. She was showing us around the great picture spots and she was no bless her she was a lovely lady but she
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was a rabid I mean she had Trump derangement syndrome she was not afraid of talking about
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Trump and talking about the insanity of the USA today I couldn't be bothered for a debate or an
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argument so I just kind of nodded my head and got on with it but how are you expecting to win the
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state when it's so yeah when it's so blue even though you are leading the polls well I sometimes
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put the question a different way. How can the Democrats expect to win with the absolutely
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disastrous record that they've got? All logic says that we need a change of direction. Let
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me break down how I think we can do this. First of all, there's a majority in California
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for change. If you look at the polls that take the party out of it and just ask that
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question, is the state going in the right direction or the wrong direction, there's
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a very clear majority saying wrong direction, 60%, 65% or more. So you're starting from a position where people want, a majority wants change
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So that's good. Secondly, the Republican vote in California, it's definitely the case that the Democrats
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have been in charge for all these 16 years. I said it's 20 years since we last won an election
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But it's a more Republican state than people think. It's actually the baseline Republican vote, even in a bad year for Republicans, is around 40%. Yeah
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So obviously that's not 50, but it's not 20 either. So you're starting from a higher level than people think
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The next thing is when you look at the actual numbers of votes you need to win in California
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This year, 2026, is a midterm election. Typically there's a lower turnout
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If you just look at the numbers and take the average of the last two midterm elections
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to get an estimate of how many people are going to vote this time, the number you get to is 11.7 million total
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So to win, you need just over half of that. Call it 5.9 million
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That's the target. Done the math. So 5.9 million votes. You look at what President Trump got here
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Trump, in California in 2024, without even campaigning, he was never a target seat
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They never expected to win California. He got 6.1 million votes. In other words, the Republican votes are there
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We just need to get them to turn out. And there's a number of things we can do for that
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A big one that is really important, is going to make a big difference this year, is a ballot initiative
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So these are citizens' initiatives that go on the ballot on different policies
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It's a big feature of how things work in California. And this year there's going to be an initiative on the ballot for voter ID, to require ID
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to vote. Well that sounds a bit racist, voter ID. There you go. Doesn't it
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So voter ID isn't required in California right now. It's one of the ways that the cheating can happen, and it's going to be on the ballot
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Now, actually, Voter ID has a majority of support across all voters in California, but
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it really popular with Republicans So Republicans will turn out in larger numbers to vote for that and my argument is they turn out for a strong candidate with a clear message on the things that matter to them so my
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platform is really simple three dollar gas cut your electric bills in half your
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first hundred grand no state income tax we stop free health care for illegal
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immigrants so we can lower health care costs for you a home you can afford to
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by. That's really common sense, practical things that I think will get people out to
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vote because that's what they're desperate for, just practical things that make their life less of a struggle
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Yeah. Are you not worried though, you talk about the last election where Trump made inroads
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here, are you not worried about maybe some of the controversy warranted around say ICE
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for example and the administration because one of your rivals, I've forgotten their names
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one of the Democrats, was saying that one of their policies would be taxing businesses
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I've never heard anything so insane. Taxing businesses who help ICE, i.e. or even serve ICE officers, say, a coffee or something
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or slap a tax on them. Well, next they'll be taxing iced coffee because they just want to tax everything
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It is insane, though, isn't it? It's insane. We could talk about the actual immigration policy issue separately
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but just in terms of the impact on that, there's a whole aspect of that debate
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that is never really aired, certainly not in the mainstream media here
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which is that and I really relate to this as a legal immigrant and I often say I'm I'm the
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candidate of the legal immigrant community for the legal immigrant community I sit down with
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immigrants who've come here lawfully doing it the right way many of them years even decades
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to do it the right way I was just in a Mexican coffee shop in East Los Angeles talking about all
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this and presented it very neutrally. Just ask them what they thought
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You know, we've got there's a lot of controversy about ICE, deportations, immigration
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What do you think? Honestly, they talk about it. It's all of Mexican heritage, as you might see from the most
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fervent kind of, you know, Stephen Miller, who's driving the immigration policy in the Trump White House
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And the kinds of things they say are, we're sick of it. We're sick of going to the grocery store
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and we can see illegal immigrants shouldn't even be here with free EBT cards
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That's the cash card for welfare benefits, food stamps on a card, EBT cards
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Free cell phones. They get their rent paid. We never had. It's just a very, you know, question of fairness
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We did it the right way. We work incredibly hard, sometimes two, three jobs
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pursuing our American dream, our California dream. And these people just walk in and get all these benefits
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No. And you ask, and actually I've asked them directly, like there's that range of opinion in terms of who should be
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you know, on deportations, which is deport, you know, people, illegal immigrants who have committed crimes only
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committed violent crimes only, or everyone. And honestly, most of these people said all of them
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Yeah. Now, that's not even going to happen. Because just from a practical point of view, it can't
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It can't be done, yeah. But the idea that this is, and in particular, remember, California, 40% Latino
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It's the largest group now. The largest group in California demographically. And they are not, I don't want to totally generalize and make assumptions about everyone
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But certainly there's a very strong voice within the Latino community who is sick of what's been going on
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and wants to see the rights of legal immigrants protected. Yeah, you saw that in New York
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I was in New York for the election in November 24. All the legal migrants were saying the same thing
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They were saying, we did this properly for years, we grafted, we did it the right way
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And that's why you saw, I think it was the biggest Republican swing in the five boroughs of New York in decades
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Let me just ask you, please, about comparisons between California and the UK. Do you see any in the way of managed decline
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Totally. This stagnation and sclerosis is just, it seems to be exactly the same. In fact, somebody sent me, someone from the venture capital industry sent me a report, a policy report that had been written in the UK by some ysts about what's been going wrong in the UK
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and he sent it to me these bases that remind you of anywhere and it was almost identical in how over
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the years the bureaucracy and process and and bloat yeah in in government and then the regulatory
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state had just got so much that it's just almost impossible to get anything done to build housing
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to build infrastructure, to increase energy capacity. Energy, of course, is such a driver of costs and the economy and growth
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So it's just this bloated nanny state bureaucracy. Is that incompetence or intentional
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It's both in the sense that it's intentional because a lot of it is driven by interest groups and activists
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So I'll give you one example of that. You've got an absolute explosion in California of nuisance lawsuits that make life impossible for, I mean I used to own restaurants so I feel this particularly strongly
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You know if you're a restaurant owner you keep getting, this is just one small example among many, they're called PAGA lawsuits, P-A-G-A, Private Attorney General Act
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This was a law passed 2004 which basically subcontracts to lawyers the enforcement of state labor law
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What it's led to is endless nuisance lawsuits. If you don't give your employees the statutory break
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if you're one minute late for the break, slap you with a lawsuit. If you spell their name wrong on a page, all these are ridiculous
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And of course, everyone has to settle because it's just not worth the hassle
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So you've got a small local restaurant, three or four of these a year. Each one, 65 grand, 100 grand, big businesses
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A rancher just the other week I was talking to down in the south of the state
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he had one just now um the claim was uh 89 i think he said 80 81 or 89 million dollars
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and they they settled at 3.8 or something just insane that's just one turning now that's true
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that's intentional that's true who benefits from that the lawyers because they get a third of it
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yeah and then of the remaining amount 75 goes to the government it's like a hidden tax and so
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and you've got the activist group pushing the climate agenda so a huge driver of all of this
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in California is the climate extreme is a net zero by 2045 that's driving the cost of everything up
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That's why you can't build housing anywhere. They say it's sprawl, which means that, you know
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people are going to drive cars. No, we don't want that. It's just ridiculous. There's so much of this
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in there. And it's the reason it's a lot of it's driven intentionally. Then the incompetence comes
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in when you have politicians like Gavin Newsom and Karen Bass here in L.A. just don't do anything
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about it And the perfect example it almost an exquisitely perfect example of what gone wrong in California to do with the wildfires here in LA Yeah They can rebuild right Right And about four or five months after the fire Karen Bass the mayor of LA she put up posts
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on social media that said, I've just signed an executive order streamlining permitting
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so we can quickly rebuild LA. I remember seeing that thinking, okay, good, you know, four months late, but whatever
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Then I watched the clip of what she actually said at the press conference
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Here are the words she actually said. I have just signed an executive order
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tasking agency heads with developing paths forward to streamlining clarity. Like a review
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It's just bullshit, right? And that's what you've got going on in California
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just coming out of our ears. Just this endless, bloated, nanny state bureaucracy everywhere
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and none of these politicians has the energy or the capacity to do anything about it
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Same as the UK. and I guess you could apply the same thing to the small boats crisis so many companies
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profiteering off that the hotels the you know whatever Aspen cars it's just crazy
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with the UK you've got a bit of a revolution going on there as well lots of energy with your campaign
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here breaking the mold of the democrat stronghold in the UK as well you've got not just reformer Nigel
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Farage you've got even the Greens Zach Bransky's on the scene so worlds apart politically but two
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anti-establishment types really taking a hold in the polls. What do you make of that? What do you
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see in the next three years? Well, this is the inevitable response to the scale of government
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failure that you get here, in particular how crushing it is for regular working people
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who are paying the price of this. And so I'm not surprised at all. I mean, I'm not closely
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involved, never mind closely, not at all involved in UK politics. I read the occasional piece. I'm
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where we'll come back at Christmas time to see family so you know I sort of roughly know what's
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going on and you know you hear about the cost of living crisis and all this of course you're going
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to get a response that says we're sick of this and we want change and they elected a Labour
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government that seems to be an utter disaster on every front Keir Starmer totally useless
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as predicted I think I think he's probably quite close to falling on his sword lots of stuff about
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mandelson today so we'll see you know so the thing is that um i think that that kind of of
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anti-establishment reaction is exactly what you'd expect and it's deserved and it's right
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um and and and here that's why i you know i my first line in the debate last night
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california needs an outsider to shake up a system that is obviously not working yeah can i ask you
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question which uh you may and may not be offended but i don't think you will do you think your
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british accent will put people off have you since had lasso on netflix i haven't actually all right
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it's about an american nfl coach he goes to right managing the premier league and he's like this
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american guy and he's a bit of an outsider because he's a he's a he's a yank do you think did you
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ever think about your accent and how people perceive you as a no former brit no there's
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certain words that you have to you actually have to say in an american accent otherwise
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people genuinely don't know what you mean well exactly that comes up a lot because
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it's one of the thing one among the many insane things that um democrats are doing in california
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is crushing our our farmers our agriculture industry the biggest and most successful in the
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world we have the most fertile farmland the central valley of california in the world
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we we lead production on almost everything you can mention um sometimes massively you know 80
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of the world's almonds 70 percent of the world's pistachios on and on berries you know that in
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about this time of year maybe a little bit earlier um 90 of the world's salads grown in california
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you know like salad leaves leaf salads and so so look we have this amazing ag industry that's been
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crushed by democrat policy in particular denying for totally ridiculous bureaucratic environmental
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reasons I'm gonna say I now say it in American water water yeah exactly it's
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the eyes you go into a shopping stay can have a water please and I say right what are you talking about and then the other of course is is ranch ranch
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our great ranchers yeah but look the thing is that you know the last
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Republican governor had an accent much stronger than mine yeah of course yeah
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Yeah, someone mentioned that to me today. I think it's going to be okay. Actually, I have to say it does actually capture to a certain extent the truth of the situation
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which is it is time for an outsider. The insiders, the establishment politicians have completely failed
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And we do need someone to come in and shake it up. And so far I'm getting a great reaction
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And we've got the energy, the momentum, leading on fundraising at or top of the polls
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It's going well. and winning the debate last night was just the latest example of the real momentum we have here
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I think we can really do this. You know, my point is that after I'm elected at the end of this year and take office early next year
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finally, instead of this, what you've got now, which is the politicians here just endlessly picking fights with the Trump administration
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in order to score political points, particularly Gavin Newsom, the current governor
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who's running for president. He hasn't announced it yet. But all he's interested in is positioning himself with the Democrat base, the far left activists, so that they pick him in the primary
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So he's constantly fighting with the, picking fights, trolling the president on social media, filing lawsuits
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It's ridiculous. You've got to work together to get things done. And that's going to be my plan
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I like how you said when you're elected. Yes, that's the plan. You need that, right? Exactly
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I guess with a state and with a nation like the UK, that's what you need. You need some intent, some belief
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Yeah, look, California is the fourth biggest economy in the world. And, you know, I think that that's with these these insane policies that make everything so expensive and time consuming and such a hassle
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So just imagine I'm very confident that we can, you know, when I'm elected and start getting rid of this bloat in the government, we can become the third
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But I think we're not going to catch China, but I'm very confident we can become the world's third biggest economy
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Who's the top three? China? Germany. Oh really? Yeah. Wow, okay. And then you've got, and then actually Japan, California, India, all very close
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Big responsibility. Yeah, we'll do it. Yeah. Last question. Do you miss the UK
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Anything about the UK? I'm so sorry, but not really. No. I love it here
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This is my home. I feel at home in a way that really, you know, there's something about California that, it's
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not just the physical beauty and the amazing lifestyle you can have here
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there's something in the spirit of California that really you know I
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connect with in a very deep and emotional level it's that kind of rebel
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spirit that idea that you can just do anything go for anything build amazing
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businesses do whatever you want to do and you can follow that dream here in California of course that's what's being crushed by these busybody bureaucrats
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with their nanny state and that's what we need to get rid of to kind of really
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allow that rebel spirit to break free and make this state as I there's a theme
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of my campaign is truly golden again. Nice one. Steve, thank you very much
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Appreciate it. Thank you. Thanks
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