"It is an uphill battle for a Republican to win statewide office but if bold people like Steve don’t emerge, Republicans aren’t going to win,” said Conyers Davis, an adviser to former Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Steve Hilton, the charismatic media personality and expat from the UK, has worn many hats in his life: Fox News host, author, entrepreneur, adviser to British prime minister David Cameron, to name a few. Now he’s aiming to become California’s next governor, hoping to overturn what will have been 15 years of one-party rule in the state.
Hilton announced his candidacy Monday and will launch his campaign with a rally Tuesday in Huntington Beach and a campaign message that parallels his recent book tour: California is failing, and the Democratic supermajority in the state is to blame, he said. “I just want to ask people to imagine what California would be like after another 15 years of one-party rule by the Democrats, yet more stagnation and decline. If you look at the state of California today, it is just a disaster on every front,” Hilton told the Southern California News Group in an exclusive interview ahead of his campaign launch.
