Valuetainment - June 05, 2026


“Steve Hilton’s Got A Chance” - GOP Outsider SHOCKS California By Topping All Democrats


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1,605

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00:00:00.000 Now let's look at the gubernatorial race
00:00:01.680 because that's a complete different result as well that they had.
00:00:05.880 Steve Hilton ends up taking first place.
00:00:07.640 As of right now, again, it's not fully in.
00:00:10.060 The numbers I have is at 27.8.
00:00:12.800 Is this from yesterday, Rob?
00:00:14.320 Late last night.
00:00:15.160 Go for it.
00:00:15.620 Yeah, I mean, go for it.
00:00:17.280 That's 46% in.
00:00:18.500 So we have numbers that are 64% in.
00:00:20.900 Hilton's at 27.8.
00:00:22.460 Becerra's at 25.4.
00:00:25.040 Steyer's at 19.6.
00:00:26.320 So he would be out.
00:00:27.420 And then Bianco, 11.3.
00:00:28.560 and then Katie Porter's at 4.5.
00:00:30.760 And for some of you guys that are devout Swalwell fans,
00:00:33.320 he got 18,602 votes, 0.4%.
00:00:36.400 We have to give some credit to the guy
00:00:37.820 who was supposed to be the Democratic candidate,
00:00:40.400 and then all of a sudden he's out.
00:00:41.460 So how different, Tom, do you think it is for the Republican,
00:00:45.220 for the gubernatorial race than the mayoral race?
00:00:47.840 It's hugely different because you go from 2020, 20 to 24,
00:00:52.000 and now we are 26.
00:00:53.180 You look at how the counties vote in statewide elections.
00:00:56.760 It has been moving.
00:00:58.560 If you look last night, last night was amazing when you saw what Hilton got in Orange County.
00:01:06.840 He wasn't just red.
00:01:08.100 He was bright red.
00:01:09.360 He destroyed the competition in Orange County.
00:01:12.220 And you take a look at Central.
00:01:13.660 If there's any maps, Rob, the state-by-state county map that are out there, you can basically see.
00:01:19.800 And if we were able to compare.
00:01:21.240 So I happen to think, and I'll see what you think.
00:01:24.060 But every two years, we have seen a – I'm going to use the word progressive, and that's wrong.
00:01:30.220 We have seen a structured move statistically of California going more independent conservative on their voting, especially statewide.
00:01:40.640 And I think this is a good sign.
00:01:43.160 Now, remember, the Steyer vote is going to Becerra, so we've got to add that up.
00:01:49.060 It's the same situation in L.A.
00:01:50.680 Like the mayor, you've got to put Steyer and Becerra together.
00:01:54.580 And what that means, Xavier is probably sitting on 46 right now.
00:01:59.860 I actually think 20% of Steyer will go to Hilton.
00:02:03.200 I actually think 20% of Steyer will go to Hilton.
00:02:05.500 Because what kind of a vote is a Steyer vote?
00:02:07.800 It's the business.
00:02:11.280 He's more like climate.
00:02:12.960 Well, you know, poor me.
00:02:14.380 I'm a billionaire, but I feel so bad for everybody else.
00:02:17.180 But then the average guy that's kind of like, you know what?
00:02:19.240 I'll just kind of put money behind him.
00:02:20.480 And by the way, you know who had Steyer?
00:02:22.300 Which we know that guy's what's going to go to Becerra.
00:02:24.260 Who's the actor, the Hulk, Incredible Hulk?
00:02:26.580 Mark Ruffalo?
00:02:28.020 Ruffalo had Steyer.
00:02:29.260 He endorsed him, I think, two or three days ago.
00:02:31.720 What are your thoughts?
00:02:32.780 I know you've spent some time with Hilton.
00:02:34.040 He was with you guys at Fox.
00:02:35.280 Yeah, he was.
00:02:37.600 I'm going to repeat what Tom said.
00:02:39.900 If you look at the center of that state all the way up,
00:02:42.620 other than those coastal liberal cities,
00:02:46.340 they're turning redder and redder.
00:02:48.460 And it's because the education system is falling apart.
00:02:51.880 The standard of living is our, I mean, house prices in California are out of, out of control.
00:02:57.360 And it might, in this case, work against the Democrats and for Hilton.
00:03:04.880 I'm going to have to be that guy.
00:03:06.460 Go for it.
00:03:07.140 No, no, but it's just the math.
00:03:09.060 Like we have 57% of the votes.
00:03:11.780 The leads are two or three points amongst them.
00:03:14.440 We have a lot of votes coming in.
00:03:15.860 I don't see a trend that is definitive.
00:03:18.100 So, like, it's really hard to speak on these numbers right now.
00:03:22.180 What do you think is more definitive?
00:03:24.180 Spencer being in it or Hilton being in it?
00:03:26.700 Hilton.
00:03:27.280 I think it's too early to tell.
00:03:29.600 For both of them.
00:03:30.300 For both of them.
00:03:31.100 Okay.
00:03:31.700 Because the thing is, you still have, like, almost half of the votes coming in,
00:03:35.180 and then you have two three-point leads.
00:03:36.760 Like, it could go anywhere yet.
00:03:38.080 Like, there's not a – I don't know if, Tom, you agree,
00:03:40.580 there's not a definitive trend right now just being responsible with numbers.
00:03:43.840 But the fact that the city is that close,
00:03:45.460 because the city is always the biggest spread between Democrat and Republican.
00:03:48.780 So it's like when Miami went to DeSantis in 2022,
00:03:51.440 that was like a massive indicator that the whole state felt that way.
00:03:53.620 So if L.A. is anywhere close to being a close race,
00:03:56.280 that means the whole state has shifted that much.
00:03:58.380 That's a good point.
00:03:59.040 That's a good point because the city, the city is leading the state
00:04:02.540 because it's such a liberal city.
00:04:04.340 Right.
00:04:04.800 Very good point.
00:04:05.480 Do you agree with that?
00:04:06.500 I totally agree.
00:04:08.080 But a water pipe hasn't broken yet.
00:04:10.720 Yeah.
00:04:12.100 Yeah, that's a good point.
00:04:13.140 And the mail-in ballots haven't come in.
00:04:14.940 news is it's not like people cheat in elections like it's not like they steal votes or do they
00:04:18.960 do stuff like that it's nothing like this happened the previous president previous to the president
00:04:23.600 the most popular motivational speaker of all time got 81 million votes and we know that was
00:04:27.600 this this kind of stuff would never happen so i want to make sure we the integrity of elections
00:04:31.320 we have to keep there one last thing shout out to our guy chad bianco he did very well uh you know
00:04:37.020 he's got fourth place right now with uh 11 percent of the vote bianco yeah good for him
00:04:41.100 We had him over here for Bianco. I think once this is going to become clear, I think him and Hilton will probably team up to do something together.
00:04:48.400 I hope Hilton does, because, you know, Bianco did play an important role and there's something that they can do collectively together.
00:04:55.620 To Humberto's point earlier, I read here and I didn't send it to Rob, but it said that the governor, gubernatorial election in California is now up to focus and turnout so that it is the high focus.
00:05:08.980 Steve Hilton needs to be high focus, and we've seen him kind of meander a little bit when he makes points.
00:05:15.040 He needs to hit the points crisp and hard, and the angry voter will come out.
00:05:22.400 By the way, the protest vote is higher in California on the Republican side than the Democrat side, Pat.
00:05:30.080 And that's because for the last 20 years, oh, screw it.
00:05:32.800 I'm not voting.
00:05:33.540 This doesn't even matter.
00:05:34.660 That attitude.
00:05:35.660 and they said so hilton stays focused he will now be up against becerra it looks like
00:05:41.780 all summer and then what will the turnout look like can we can they overturn out san bernardino
00:05:49.580 county and the central counties and just move a percent or two in the cities hilton could win
00:05:55.640 this thing but it's gonna be a long summer and now the now all the confusion is over you know
00:06:01.900 People are going to see A or B.
00:06:04.680 Is there any clips of Karen Bass that you have?
00:06:06.800 Do you have anything on Bass?
00:06:08.580 I don't believe I have anything on Karen Bass.
00:06:11.640 Because here it says Karen Bass advances to November runoff.
00:06:14.220 You had a video on it.
00:06:15.020 I thought maybe you had a clip of Get Bass.
00:06:16.220 Oh, it was Spencer Pratt.
00:06:17.400 I have more Spencer Pratt.
00:06:18.580 And then I also have Steve Hilton thanking his voters yesterday.
00:06:22.460 Go for it.
00:06:23.480 As a proud American, someone who loves this country so much,
00:06:27.040 this is my first time running for office.
00:06:29.460 And when we just passed that number of 1 million people, and it's now over a million, voting for me,
00:06:35.580 1 million Californians and rising, putting their hopes in me to bring change and put our state back on track,
00:06:42.500 it's an unbelievable honor, something I absolutely take so seriously.
00:06:47.660 I won't let people down.
00:06:49.200 Only the paranoid survive.
00:06:50.920 Only the paranoid survive.
00:06:52.280 We'll see what happens next.
00:06:53.220 The big game is around the corner.
00:06:54.820 They're already talking about the matchups, who's playing against who.
00:06:57.540 different people are representing different countries obviously i live in an interesting
00:07:02.880 community where a lot of uh soccer players uh live we knew when they left to go off to kansas city
00:07:08.720 uh messes in kansas city this is gonna be the most amazing thing everyone's like there were
00:07:14.120 so many interesting stats the most ever players above 40 years old playing in the world cup
00:07:18.920 the youngest player is a 17 year old kid from uh uh i think from mexico if i'm not mistaken
00:07:25.040 and there's going to be some interesting stories.
00:07:26.980 But we had these hats that we made
00:07:29.280 representing different countries, okay?
00:07:32.100 And believe it or not, for Iran,
00:07:34.160 we had the old Shahan Shahi,
00:07:36.140 Mohammed Reza Shah Palavi's flag
00:07:38.440 right here, which is sick.
00:07:40.040 And I think there's a couple of those hats left.
00:07:42.100 Rob, if you want to play this clip, go for it.
00:07:55.040 Down, down, down .
00:08:25.040 all right you can pause it right there rob whether it's argentina whether it's brazil
00:08:48.940 whether it's u.s which the u.s hats look ridiculous or whether it's iran any of them
00:08:53.880 go to vtmerch.com, place your order, get the hat, get it for yourself, get it for your friends,
00:08:58.940 but go to vtmerch.com to place your order and represent your country for this summer.
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