Valuetainment - June 05, 2026


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


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9 minutes

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1,605

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130

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Rob and Sarah breakdown the results from the California primary election and give their thoughts on the results. They also discuss the implications for the upcoming governor's race between Gavin Newsom and Steve Hilton and debate whether or not it's even close at this point.

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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. 0.99
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, 0.51
00:07:36.140 Mohammed Reza Shah Palavi's flag
00:07:38.440 right here, which is sick. 1.00
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 0.96
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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