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.
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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.
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.
Hilton running ads against Bianco is just wrong.
He needs a Republican in the second spot.
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.
Hilton and Bianco have 37%. Dems have all the rest.
Its a very fluid dynamic situation.
Hilton was at 14% just a few weeks ago.
He’s up 9% from that.
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
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
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!
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.
Tom Steyer got caught in the hood..
There are approximately 60 candidates on our ballot for governor to choose from, believe it or not.
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.
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.
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!)
Yes. But if Hilton and Bianco come in one and two, we will have a choice between an R and an R in November
Among the rats, Beccera’s just an idiot; Steyer is genuinely dangerous. I’m half thinking my son and I will vote for beccera
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Huh?
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
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
a “clean’ vote would get him 55%. Easily
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