Valuetainment - May 23, 2026


＂Break The Glass＂ - Newsom's SECRET Plan To Keep Republicans Out Of California FOREVER

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Patrick Bet-David
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In this episode, I sit down with my good friend Rob Groner to discuss California Governor Gavin Newsom s 2020 campaign and why he's running for President in 2020. We talk about his path to victory, why he needs to win the primary, and what he should do if he's not running for president.

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00:00:30.000 Here's a clip from Newsom, and he says some things that a lot of people have been taken in a weird way.
00:00:35.260 I want to see how you interpret this.
00:00:37.280 He says he has a secret plan to break the glass.
00:00:41.040 Rob, if you want to play this clip for the audience to see, and I don't know if he's talking about you.
00:00:46.540 I don't know if he's talking about, you know, whatever, because, look, a candidate running Republican, that smile that he has, he looks like he's up to something.
00:00:54.620 Go ahead, Rob.
00:00:55.100 But you've spoken about accountability.
00:00:57.080 Do you think Democrats will hold you accountable for standing by this principled neutrality by withholding your endorsement in this non-possible scenario where two Rupkins take the ticket?
00:01:06.220 Yeah, look, my focus has been making sure that doesn't happen, and I've exercised not just a focus, but I've exercised through some action efforts to encourage that doesn't happen by making my case and will continue to make my case.
00:01:23.260 I do not see that scenario taking place.
00:01:26.620 I've said this before, so I'll repeat it.
00:01:28.840 I don't anticipate this need to be the case,
00:01:31.200 but there is a break-the-glass scenario,
00:01:33.380 and there's many people that have a deep understanding
00:01:36.500 of what it would look like if Democrats were locked out,
00:01:39.920 and we're going to do everything to make sure that doesn't happen.
00:01:42.240 What do you think he means by that?
00:01:44.340 I think what he means is that...
00:01:48.260 Because remember, it's all about him.
00:01:51.280 It's only about him.
00:01:53.260 It's only about his presidential ambitions.
00:01:55.780 It's the only thing he cares about.
00:01:56.920 I think what he wants is two Democrats in the top two.
00:02:01.860 Because if I'm in the top two, he knows that the rest of this campaign,
00:02:09.840 a big part of it will be a prosecution of his record.
00:02:12.500 Because that's the whole argument.
00:02:13.980 Going into election.
00:02:15.160 He doesn't want that.
00:02:16.300 All this stuff that we're talking about will be even louder volume
00:02:20.720 because I will be there saying, we can't go on like this.
00:02:23.700 This is insane.
00:02:24.980 We are done with this.
00:02:26.760 We cannot have another four years of this.
00:02:30.460 Whereas if it's two Democrats, none of that, his record won't be an issue.
00:02:33.640 It'll be, you know, are we going to have single-payer health care?
00:02:36.760 Are we going to tax, how much are we going to tax the rich, et cetera?
00:02:39.780 The other point is this.
00:02:40.940 If I'm in the top two, if there's a Republican in the top two,
00:02:43.660 then there's a chance, of course, that I'll win.
00:02:46.720 I believe I can when we haven't really talked about my path to victory,
00:02:50.140 But I can see it because and it starts with the fact that you've now got a majority, a clear majority of Californians who think it's time for change, who think the state's on the wrong track.
00:03:00.040 That's the starting point. And then if you look at the numbers of votes that you need, even President Trump in California, without campaigning there in 2024, got more votes in California than I would need to win in a midterm year.
00:03:11.580 And there's there's other things, the fact that we've got voter ID on the ballot in November in California.
00:03:16.940 That's going to bring out a lot of Republican voters, and so on.
00:03:19.960 So I can see a path to victory, and that's Newsom's worst nightmare.
00:03:24.320 Imagine if this is the scenario in early 2027.
00:03:28.900 Just as he's launching his presidential campaign, you've got a Republican taking over as governor.
00:03:36.780 He's just lost California to Republicans.
00:03:39.640 that is it and and as i'm cleaning up the mess that he's left behind i will be exposing what
00:03:47.080 he's done um as in the process of cleaning it up which will be a disaster for his presidential
00:03:52.640 campaign so he wants to avoid that at all costs what he wants is stya becerra so i think what's
00:03:58.760 going on here is that he is raising the specter of two republicans in order to continue to give
00:04:05.420 republicans hope that that can happen in other words encouraging republicans to try and get to
00:04:13.000 republican voters to try and get two republicans in the top two by voting
00:04:17.300 by continuing to vote for chad bianco i think that's what's going on here so you're okay got
00:04:23.640 it so the more bianco goes up you go down then the top two will become democrats exactly that's
00:04:30.780 their strategy yes because he's desperate to see two democrats what do you know about steyer because
00:04:37.840 he also came out of nowhere what i know you're steyer you know the billionaire climate for here's
00:04:42.860 a couple of things first of all we talk about costs and he keeps going on about affordability
00:04:48.260 yeah most of the climate stuff that i'm talking about that's given us this insane gas prices
00:04:54.740 electric bills and so on housing costs it goes back to a piece of legislation passed in 2006
00:05:01.100 AB 32, the Global Warming Solutions Act.
00:05:04.800 A lot of this framework was set up then,
00:05:07.280 the cap and trade system, all of this.
00:05:09.760 In 2010, four years after it was passed,
00:05:12.480 there was a ballot initiative to overturn it.
00:05:16.020 And the main funder of that ballot initiative,
00:05:19.760 the opposition to it, was Tom Steyer.
00:05:23.780 So we could have avoided all this pain and cost,
00:05:26.780 but it was Tom Steyer who defeated that initiative.
00:05:30.420 so he's honestly you could there's a way you could put it which is he is personally
00:05:37.080 responsible for this insane level of cost of everything in california the other thing we
00:05:44.820 know about him is how obsessed he is with trying to get elected to something in this campaign for
00:05:50.520 governor the numbers are published all the time here's the latest here's how much he spent
00:05:54.660 193 million dollars in this yes since like when he entered the race i don't know november
00:06:01.420 in this yes 193 million that's his latest filing
00:06:05.020 okay 192.4 oh my god wow so far oh my god we haven't even got to the primary and i mean listen
00:06:19.020 fire your marketing team 192 million dollars spencer pratt could have done it for you for
00:06:24.820 300 000 incredible oh my god 192 million dollars and where is he at on the polls
00:06:32.900 he's is he two you're two he's three that's look at the look at that one this is they're mostly
00:06:39.320 like this one that you're just seeing that got it got it so he's three and bianco's at 10 for this
00:06:45.100 one yeah man via grossa what a disappointment one percent like literally nobody wants him
00:06:51.780 nobody at one point he was so famous popular yeah i like it by the way i like what do you like about
00:06:57.120 him i just like it i look i get on with most people but there's something i like antonio he's
00:07:03.200 um i think his heart's in the right place he's definitely challenged the democrat orthodoxy in
00:07:08.740 a lot of issues he challenged the teacher unions on education he's actually the only one who's
00:07:13.800 really called out the climate stuff he's talked about opening up oil production why is he doing
00:07:18.680 so bad i don't know it's interesting because you know you think he's run you know he's two
00:07:24.460 yeah anyway i don't know i truly don't know i like him all right sounds good i think there
00:07:33.680 was some strategy endorsement there for via grossa you'll like it and we'll see what happened
00:07:37.780 there but uh final thoughts here for californians what if they want to support what can they do
00:07:42.880 how can they support you if they want to help so first vote you got to vote i mean none of this
00:07:48.120 stuff will happen unless we vote for it and i think one of the big things that we have to have
00:07:53.580 to make this change in california is belief that it's possible because i think people have got
00:07:58.820 conditioned to this idea that well a republican can't win and so you're stuck with this choice
00:08:05.860 of putting up with the insanity or leaving the state and that's a terrible choice it's a 0.95
00:08:12.000 ridiculous choice. And that idea that things can't change, I mean, I say this sometimes as a new
00:08:18.440 American citizen, it's a very un-American attitude that you just can't, it can't be done. Of course
00:08:24.620 it can be done. It's obvious that it needs to be done. It's obvious that we need change, that we
00:08:29.760 need balance, but you've got to vote for it. And one of the reasons I've been so, you know, I've
00:08:34.160 been campaigning so hard and up and down the state for a year now, working really hard, is just to
00:08:39.040 give that sense of energy and belief and so so number one is vote vote vote and tell all your
00:08:45.280 friends uh we gotta we gotta do this and come out of this primary with energy and we always need
00:08:50.640 money look we don't have it's dire money we don't have any of that we're very frugal it's a lean
00:08:56.540 startup kind of deal but we're spending a little bit on advertising and we got to get that message
00:09:01.240 out because you know if if if the truth is somewhere between those polls then it's it's a
00:09:08.000 it's still too close for comfort and you could end up with this two democrat scenario which is
00:09:12.340 a disaster for california and for the country because we can't have our biggest state our
00:09:17.980 most beautiful amazing state that's generated so much incredible um innovation and leadership
00:09:23.920 for america from hollywood to tech to our great farming industry life sciences biotech you know
00:09:29.820 just so much that comes out of california and imagine how great it would be for our country
00:09:36.340 if we have a California that is firing on all cylinders again.
00:09:40.600 Yeah, you know, it's interesting.
00:09:41.540 What most people don't know, since the last 100 years,
00:09:44.380 I just pulled it up with the team,
00:09:46.580 what percentage of the last 100 years in the state of California
00:09:49.560 the governor was a Republican versus a Democrat?
00:09:51.980 You know, it's 61%.
00:09:53.320 Interesting.
00:09:54.040 Republican, only 39% Democrat. 0.89
00:09:56.980 That's amazing.
00:09:57.500 And if you look at all time, Republican 20 to 17,
00:10:01.980 I think it's time for California to go back to what it is to your original Republican governor days.
00:10:10.000 We had an Armenian governor, Dukmejian.
00:10:12.480 I don't know if you knew that or not.
00:10:13.600 Yeah, yeah, yeah. 0.96
00:10:14.020 Dukmejian, yeah.
00:10:14.700 Yeah, he was a governor.
00:10:16.400 Glendale, very big. 1.00
00:10:18.160 Massive, massive Armenian. 1.00
00:10:19.540 And by the way, there's some crazy Armenians that aren't left as joined the trans LGBTQ camp, 0.99
00:10:24.300 but there's a lot of Armenians to the core that raise their kids in a conservative way. 0.97
00:10:27.640 I hope they get behind you. 1.00
00:10:29.020 Exactly.
00:10:29.380 And, folks, if you want to support, I saw the number, 30,000-plus donors already, right?
00:10:33.640 No, no, no.
00:10:34.600 No, 65,000.
00:10:35.980 65,000.
00:10:36.920 Okay, the report here says 30.
00:10:38.920 65,000-plus donors.
00:10:40.720 And probably more.
00:10:41.520 I mean, that's one of the most beautiful things.
00:10:43.860 I've never run for anything before.
00:10:45.740 And we've gone from nothing to over 65.
00:10:47.800 65,000 from nothing to it.
00:10:49.360 That was the last number that we put out.
00:10:51.000 Great.
00:10:51.640 Yeah.
00:10:52.260 Go visit the site, SteveHiltonForGovernor.com.
00:10:55.660 and if you enjoyed what was talked about today
00:10:58.860 and you want to see more support,
00:11:00.540 share this message with others,
00:11:02.600 share the link with others,
00:11:04.500 give financially, knock on doors,
00:11:06.700 talk about it at dinners,
00:11:07.880 talk to your friends, talk to your peers,
00:11:09.540 get the message out there.
00:11:10.980 Steve, excited to see what happens with you
00:11:12.920 the next two weeks.
00:11:13.840 Thank you, man.
00:11:14.280 You're obviously doing the work
00:11:15.280 and I wish you nothing but the best.
00:11:17.340 Really wonderful to be with you.
00:11:18.660 Thank you.
00:11:19.100 And I look forward to that event you do.
00:11:20.720 Yes, that's great.
00:11:21.840 Well, you'll be there, right?
00:11:22.740 I look forward to you doing that event.
00:11:24.560 And I think it's a massive publicity stunt for everybody to say, are these people really talking about bringing their money back?
00:11:30.220 I think that would be massive.
00:11:31.880 And a lot of Californians would support it.
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