I hate to be cynical, but California is a one-party state
An article on FR yesterday about automatic voter registration tied to drivers licenses, government payments, had some interesting tidbits about how it ensures corrupt and bloated voter rolls, which are then easily manipulated by dozens of leftist aligned “Civil Rights NGOs.” California is also most advanced in ballot-harvesting, which is how the fraud is white-washed and legalized.
Until this corrupt system is dismantled, it is assured no Republican will EVER win a major state office.
What if congress voter ID laws and Trump threatened state aid? There would be an 18 month window to get it right.
Hilton is married to Rachel Whetstone, a former aide (political secretary) to Michael Howard, former head of communications at Google,
...and former senior vice-president of policy and communications of Uber,and current chief communications officer of Netflix.
I'd be very careful around this one.
I doubt Steve Hilton has much chance of winning. But he does have his foreign birth going for him. The last Republican governor of California was a foreigner, Arnold.