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HUGE POLL: Republican Steve Hilton SURGES to 25% in the open primary for California governor.
X ^ | 05/24/2026 | Election Time

Posted on 05/24/2026 3:53:30 PM PDT by SmokingJoe

🚨HUGE POLL: Republican Steve Hilton SURGES to 25% in the open primary for California governor.

California - 2026 Governor - Open Primary 🟥Steve Hilton 25% (+7) 🟦Tom Steyer 18% 🟦Xavier Becerra 15% 🟥Chad Bianco 12% 🟦Katie Porter 7% 🟦Matt Mahan 7%

With the top-two open primary in less than two weeks, Steve Hilton expands his lead while Tom Steyer overtakes Xavier Becerra.

Echelon Insights | May 18-21, 2026 | 800 LV

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To: SmokingJoe
Chad Bianco...(R-12%)

Bianco, a Republican sheriff, was harshly and personally attacking Steve Hilton (R-25%) for about one week.

Bianco claimed Hilton was not a real Republican, in spite of Hilton working for years on Fox News.

Bianco slipped from second place to fourth place in the newest poll.

I like Hilton, but his approval is stuck around 25%.

It is really hard to see how Hilton can get to 50% in the general election.

21 posted on 05/24/2026 5:44:18 PM PDT by zeestephen (Trump Landslide? Kamala lost the election by 230,000 votes, in WI, MI, and PA.)
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To: Bob Wills is still the king
The only way Republicans win is if Hilton and Bianco are the nominees.

Sorry, but that's just NOT gonna' happen.

Bianco, who is my sheriff here in SoCal, took a knee for a mob of BLM rioters and that's enough for me NOT to vote for him. Although I'm not totally fine with Hilton, It's Hilton or bust as far as I'm concerned.

22 posted on 05/24/2026 5:48:23 PM PDT by Bullish (My tagline ran off with another man, but it's okay... I wasn't married to it.)
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To: SmokingJoe

Hilton running ads against Bianco is just wrong.
He needs a Republican in the second spot.


23 posted on 05/24/2026 5:56:55 PM PDT by Carry_Okie (The tree of liberty needs a rope.)
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To: SmokingJoe

Hilton may make the top two. Strangley I haven’t seen any TV ads from him. I have seen a couple dozen from Bianco over the lsdt few weeks.


24 posted on 05/24/2026 6:08:08 PM PDT by DAC21
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To: SmokingJoe

Hilton and Bianco have 37%. Dems have all the rest.


25 posted on 05/24/2026 6:08:30 PM PDT by xkaydet65
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To: xkaydet65

Its a very fluid dynamic situation.
Hilton was at 14% just a few weeks ago.
He’s up 9% from that.


26 posted on 05/24/2026 6:25:36 PM PDT by SmokingJoe
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To: j.havenfarm

Becerra is basically the Mexican Epstein.. he trafficked in young children as young as five yrs old and they are being used as sex slaves even Epstein didn’t do that


27 posted on 05/24/2026 6:40:01 PM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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To: Sarah Barracuda

Becerra is basically the Mexican Epstein.. he trafficked in young children as young as five yrs old and they are being used as sex slaves even Epstein didn’t do that


And the Republicans are ready to roll with the ads to point that out?


28 posted on 05/24/2026 6:40:39 PM PDT by dfwgator ("I am Charlie Kirk!")
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To: Carry_Okie

I heard Bianco on Ryan Girdusky’s podcast and he was rather worked up against Hilton, and heard Hilton a couple times last fall. Either guy would be dramatic improvement, however kept thinking it matters not who wins as Sacramento has most of the control anyway. It is as deep blue as commies get in the nation so good luck guys!


29 posted on 05/24/2026 6:43:25 PM PDT by quantim (Victory is not relative, it is absolute.)
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To: dfwgator

One would think Republicans would run ads pointing out that every time Steyer hits on PG&E pretending to raise money for schools, it just rolls into the rate base.

While the amount that the public education leviathan spends is a scandal.


30 posted on 05/24/2026 6:50:57 PM PDT by Carry_Okie (The tree of liberty needs a rope.)
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To: SmokingJoe
Ole Tom hustled by the boys in the hood....

Tom Steyer got caught in the hood..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7VkcQKZSFqg

31 posted on 05/24/2026 8:14:51 PM PDT by SmokingJoe
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To: Jeff Vader

There are approximately 60 candidates on our ballot for governor to choose from, believe it or not.


32 posted on 05/24/2026 8:16:43 PM PDT by Persevero (You cannot comply your way out of tyranny. )
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To: xkaydet65

Voter turnout is key. It’s a primary. Polls only have so much accuracy, people will say who they are preferring, but will they show up to vote or stick their ballot in the mail or ballot box? It’s going to be about how strongly people feel.

People feel STRONGLY about Spencer Pratt for mayor in LA. I hope they also vote for Hilton or Bianco for Governor, getting the both of them onto the ballot in November.

We have a jungle primary here. The top two get on the ballot in November. It’s a different sort of beast.


33 posted on 05/24/2026 8:19:29 PM PDT by Persevero (You cannot comply your way out of tyranny. )
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To: Persevero

I understand about the jungle primary. My comment was directed at what chance he has in the election,even if he finishes first here. Total GOP votes fall far short of matching Dem votes.


34 posted on 05/24/2026 9:27:30 PM PDT by xkaydet65
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To: SmokingJoe

Send him a buck or two!

Let’s turn California around!

Make California Great Again!

(California would be a great place to live except for the Democrats!)


35 posted on 05/24/2026 10:06:32 PM PDT by Taxman (We will never be a truly free people so long as we have the income tax and the IRS. )
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To: xkaydet65

Yes. But if Hilton and Bianco come in one and two, we will have a choice between an R and an R in November


36 posted on 05/25/2026 5:09:17 AM PDT by Persevero (You cannot comply your way out of tyranny. )
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To: j.havenfarm

Among the rats, Beccera’s just an idiot; Steyer is genuinely dangerous. I’m half thinking my son and I will vote for beccera
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Huh?


37 posted on 05/25/2026 9:59:45 AM PDT by fortes fortuna juvat (Marxist Democrats are a dangerous national pathology. Deus Vult!)
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To: fortes fortuna juvat

Sure. I think Hilton has no 1, or at worst, 2, locked down. Bianco doesn’t have a chance of making the second spot. So might as well vote for Becerra in the hope that he can beat Steyer


38 posted on 05/25/2026 12:36:23 PM PDT by j.havenfarm (25 years on Free Republic, 12/10/25! More than 12,750 replies and still not shutting up!)
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To: fortes fortuna juvat

Let me say a little more: our enemies are ruthless and driven. But we can often gain even small advances because a lot of them are really, really stupid. See, Harris, Kamala . I give Hilton about a 20% chance of winning the general. I’d rather have a traditional rat hack idiot like Becerra than a smart commie like Steyer


39 posted on 05/25/2026 1:00:42 PM PDT by j.havenfarm (25 years on Free Republic, 12/10/25! More than 12,750 replies and still not shutting up!)
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To: j.havenfarm

a “clean’ vote would get him 55%. Easily


40 posted on 05/25/2026 1:12:01 PM PDT by mo ("If you understand, no explanation is needed; if you don't understand, no explanation is possible)
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