Steve Hilton & Spencer Pratt: Fixing California, Cheaper Gas, Ballot Fraud & CA Republicans

The discussion centered on the claim that California has been broken by one-party rule, regulatory overload, and a political machine that protects entrenched interests at the expense of ordinary residents. The guest, Steve Hilton, argued that the state has the highest poverty rate, unemployment rate, and cost of living in the country, and said his campaign is built around cutting regulations, slashing waste, canceling high-speed rail, and lowering taxes and gas prices. He framed the race as a fight between “the people versus the machine” and said a large bloc of persuadable voters is focused on affordability, not ideology.

The host and panelists pressed him on the path to victory, the polling gap, and whether California Democrats are really reachable. Hilton said the campaign has narrowed the margin and that even lifelong Democrats are telling him they plan to vote for him because the state feels unaffordable and dysfunctional. He also attacked Javier Becerra as a continuation of the same system, saying Becerra would be even more pliant to unions, trial lawyers, and activists than Gavin Newsom.

Spencer Pratt then joined to describe his own local activism and campaign experience in Los Angeles, arguing that ballot harvesting, voter suppression rules, and permissive enforcement make the system effectively rigged even if it is legal. He described city dysfunction around homelessness, street vending, and the Palisades fires, saying government incompetence rewarded the wrong behavior and punished productive people. Both guests tied their political message to basic competence: enforce the law, reopen parks, fix infrastructure, and stop spending public money on what they called destructive nonprofits and bureaucracy.