Steve Hilton: How California Became America’s BIGGEST Political Failure | PBD #803
5/21/20261 hr 44 min
Patrick Bet-David sits down with Steve Hilton to discuss California’s economic decline, Gavin Newsom’s leadership failures, the state’s $425 billion in alleged fraud and waste, businesses fleeing California, high taxes, the housing crisis, teachers unions, energy policy, the high-speed rail disaster, and whether Republicans can win back the state.
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First 90 secondsSpeaker 10:01
Did you ever think you would make it? I feel I'm successful, taste sweet victory. I know this life meant for me Adam, what's your point? Yeah.
Patrick Bet-David· Host0:11
The future looks bright?
Speaker 10:12
Bet they- My handshake is better than anything I ever signed, right here.
Patrick Bet-David· Host0:16
You are a one of one.
Speaker 40:18
My son's right there.
Patrick Bet-David· Host0:19
I don't think I've ever said this before. [laughs] [laughs] I- she is, she is, and a couple other people are as well. Okay, so today we have a special guest who is trying to do the impossible. I would say you're trying to do the impossible, and the reason why I say that is because California politics is so controlled by so many different people. But it takes somebody with courage who is willing to go and drive some conservative, common sense ideas to people in California who've been devastated the last four to eight years, who love their state, who don't want to leave, who want to see this place become the state everybody would flock to instead of now looking at the numbers back to back to back the last six years, number one state in America for negative net migration. They had so many different issues. Most expensive homes. Average home in California right now is what? $906,000. Number one in homelessness, 13% in population, but 28% in population of homelessness. You can go... Highest prices of ga- ... So many different things. And in comes a guy like you that wants to run for governor of the state of California, and it's great to have you here with us.
Steve Hilton· Guest1:19
Fantastic to be here.
Patrick Bet-David· Host1:20
The one and only Steve Hilton.
Steve Hilton· Guest1:20
All right.
Patrick Bet-David· Host1:21
Yes, great to have you here. So I got, I, uh, before we get into the story, I wanna ask you a very open-ended question.
Steve Hilton· Guest1:25
Yeah.
Patrick Bet-David· Host1:26
Who runs California? Is it the governor? Is it the unions?