GOP Gubernatorial candidate Steve Hilton at press conference. (Photo: Katy Grimes for California Globe)
Californians Are Ready for Change: Steve Hilton Can Beat Becerra
…and Karen Bass can’t close the deal – Pratt can win
By Katy Grimes, June 3, 2026 3:51 pm
Last night’s primary election results demonstrate that Californians are ready for change. But are enough Democrat voters fed up with policies and politicians they’ve supported? Because it will take Democrats to change how they vote if California chooses the path of healing.
Steve Hilton can beat Xavier Becerra – maybe the numbers don’t add up, but that doesn’t account for disaffected Democrats, Palisades, Malibu and Eaton fire victims, residents of the once beautiful cities of Los Angeles, San Francisco, San Diego, and Sacramento, reduced to “shithole” cities, with drug addicts living in their own filth on the sidewalks and streets. And people who rarely think about politics wondering why their kids’ schools are educational cesspools of gender justice curriculum.
All of the gerrymandering done ahead of this election never accounted for the will of the voters.
The California results show that even in deep blue, corrupt areas, people have had it with the corrupt status quo.
I saw this posted on X, which seems to sum up another interesting corruption issue in the election:
Only in California politics can a Dem Candidate move forward to the General Election for Governor, when not one, not two, but three former aides to his campaign team recently were indicted and pled GUILTY to stealing from the campaign to the tune of $225,000. Three individuals associated with Xavier Becerra’s political operations pleaded guilty in a federal fraud scheme involving the diversion of about $225,000 from one of his dormant campaign accounts: Sean McCluskie: Becerra’s former chief of staff (and longtime advisor). Dana Williamson: A former advisor and key political strategist who also served as Becerra’s campaign manager. Greg Campbell: A Sacramento lobbyist who was part of the conspiracy.
Anyone paying attention in California is fed up with this corruption, that no politician seems to be prosecuted for. It’s easy to go after the consultants, but what about the politicians?
And this isn’t Becerra’s first rodeo. As I reported in 2018:
Becerra has his own troubles in D.C. as he was up to his eyeballs in the House Democratic Caucus Awan Brothers Congressional IT Scandal. Then-Rep. Xavier Becerra was the caucus chairman when he gave a fake server to the cops in order to obstruct their investigation. “The executive director of the Democratic Caucus was Sean McCluskie, who was Becerra’s chief of staff and is now chief deputy attorney general of California,” Daily Caller reporter Luke Rosiak reported in 2017. “The Awans and their associates collected more than $5 million in pay from congressional offices, often drawing chief-of-staff level pay though there is reason to believe many didn’t even show up. The House’s internal probe found they logged into servers they had no affiliation with, used members’ usernames, covered their tracks, and persisted even after being fired.”
Becerra, a sitting member of Congress since 1993, was surprisingly appointed to the California AG’s office when then-California AG Kamala Harris was elected to the U.S. Senate. Did he miss California? Not likely, since he and his wife and three daughters lived in and own a million dollar home in the D.C. area and by all accounts, were ensconced as permanent residents. (It appears the Becerra’s just this month sold their home in Maryland).
Members of the Awan family logged on to the Caucus server 7,000 times without authorization between October 2015 and August 2016, according to a House investigation.
“The Awans were accessing members’ computers without their knowledge, transferring files to remote servers, and stealing computer equipment — including hard drives that Awan & Co. smashed to bits of bytes before making tracks,” former Prosecutor Andrew McCarthy reported in National Review. And none of the Awans could have qualified for a security clearance.
The unvetted Awans enjoyed unfettered access throughout the Democrat Caucus – and even had access to the accounts of members of the House Intelligence and Foreign Affairs committees.
Many believe Becerra departed Congress to become Jerry Brown’s appointed attorney general in California to put him in a position in which he could not be prosecuted.
But the scandal quietly disappeared thanks the mainstream media, and Congress eventually looked the other way.
However, Becerra wasn’t the most popular of the cool kids in the Biden administration.
Biden adviser Susan Rice referred to HHS Sec. Becerra as a “bitch-ass” and privately called him an “idiot,” according to multiple sources, Jim VanderHei of Axios Tweeted last year:
Axios reported:
- There was — and still is — deep animosity toward Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra for what was seen as his reluctance to find more space in child migrant shelters, which are overseen by HHS, according to several sources familiar with the dynamics.
- Rice referred to Becerra as a “bitch-ass” and privately called him an “idiot,” according to multiple sources.
- During one meeting when Biden was tearing into Becerra, Rice passed Mayorkas a note that read: “Don’t save him,” according to two people familiar with the meeting.
So Californians are faced with the opportunity for significant change, far removed from the Xavier Becerras and Karen Basses of the political world.
Currently, the Secretary of State’s office is reporting on the Governor’s race, the top candidates with 58% in are:
- Steve Hilton (R): 27.8% (1.39 million votes) — Trump-endorsed commentator
- Xavier Becerra (D): 25.4% (1.27 million votes) — Former U.S. HHS Secretary
- Tom Steyer (D): 19.6% (979k votes) — Billionaire
- Chad Bianco (R): 11.3%
The change agent is Steve Hilton. And if he and Becerra advance to the November General Election, Becerra’s entire past will be front and center for all to witness.
This is the most competitive, open race in years, as Gov. Gavin Newsom is term-limited. With voter frustrations skyrocketing over high housing costs, high gas and electricity prices, highest-in-the-nation gas taxes and income taxes, high cost of living, homelessness, and a sense the state is “going in the wrong direction,” this may be the tipping point – for Democrat voters.
And Spencer Pratt challenging Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass will resonate in November. Bass only got 35% of the vote as an incumbent! If you think Pratt’s adds resonated going into the Primary Election, just wait. He will drill down on Bass and her lengthy career, and it won’t be pretty.
Pratt and Hilton aren’t career politicians. Karen Bass and Xavier Becerra are. The contrasts are already stark, even with the numbers against Republicans.
A California native and Navy mom, Katy lives in Sacramento, CA.
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In England Hilton was a smooth talking leftist who pushed Green and other leftist insanity. I know an extreme left Brit (current)who loves Hilton. Tells you all you need to know about him.
I guess convincing lies are all it takes for some voters.
Hopefully, Hilton doesn’t turn into another Schwarzenegger. I don’t trust Hilton, but what’s our option?
Vote for a communist or vote for a communist
In conservative clothing?
This is how the uni-party maintains power.
Im going to put my faith in God.
I was in the Hilton camp until they sent out the BLM-knee mudsling video that got me off my butt and doing the work to validate their claims and what I learned took me OUT of the Hilton camp and firmly INTO the Bianco camp…
Hilton DOES give off Schwarzenegger 2.0 energy, and I don’t believe he has the brass and experience to outsmart the swamp-monsters that inhabit the Sacramento swamp…. hoping that Bianco parallels Golden Tempo’s run to the roses in the Kentucky Derby earlier this year and ends up smoking Steyer and anyone else high up in the pack….
Hilton a Republican crying towell; an emotional lump of coal aimed at appeasing those ignorant enough to believe they have a voice.
The Hispanic Latino Democratic welfare union vote insurmountable.
Hawkish analysis K.G. Trump replaced Biden’s Becerra at HHS with RFK, Jr. My prognosis is that Hilton is going to fix the malpractice of Newsom in healthcare because of his experience in England and their broken system. You are spot on regarding both of these change agent candidates! Thank you for the Truth!
My heart thinks there’s a chance, but my brain knows there isn’t, unless scandal and ineptitude overwhelm Bass and Becerra. It also wouldn’t hurt if President Trump ended the Iran war and gas prices came down.
Instead of once again trying to snatch defeat from the jaws of (possible) victory, Republicans would be smart to back Steve Hilton for Governor with everything they can muster. After making that decision it might also be smart to investigate participation in a get-out-the-vote effort for success in November.
More should be done to back Hilton and Pratt because he is all we Normies have. But we all know that as ballots are cured, the sick ones are republican ballots for which there is no cure and the only ones that can be cured are democrat.
R’s die, D’s win. You watch. Day by day Hilton and Pratt will be pushed off the table by California’s corruption.
That is just how California rolls.
The thing is, though, that when you have a candidate for mayor like Spencer Pratt who, in a matter of months has gained national, even worldwide attention, it will be much harder for the Usual Suspects to hide their usual cheating, if they are foolish enough to attempt it again with so many eyeballs on it. For instance this morning I saw a report from a website known for its incendiary and possibly-not-always-accurate headlines, which said that all the L.A. County ballots coming in now, on and after election day, for L.A. City Mayor, are not-one-of-them for Spencer Pratt but are instead all for Nithya Raman and Karen Bass. As we wait for confirmation on that story that may or may not be true, we realize that the hordes of Pratt supporters would be up in arms if this turns out to be true and it could very well be the last act of the cheaters because of the tsunami of attention such a story would bring to this important mayor’s race.
In other words an L.A. Mayor candidate like a once-in-a-lifetime Spencer Pratt presents a golden opportunity for, say, blowing up cheating in a way that past races didn’t have a snowball’s chance in hell of making happen.
Yes Amish Warrior. Mail in ballots are coming in from all across the country from supposed California residents. Perhaps even from China….who really knows?
Best not to count chickens before they hatch. Hundreds of thousands mail in ballots yet to be counted as the cheating continues. Both Hilton and Pratt could be replaced by a couple of commies before the counting is over..
The democrats will steal this election again and there is nothing we can do about. They have no shame and power to control this state will not be given up easily. Until the “jungle” primary is changed we will not have a fair chance to win, until the voter rolls are cleaned up we have no chance of winning, until vote by mail is stopped and only those that request a absentee ballot and only member of the military receive them we have no chance of winning, until we pass a requirement that you have to be a citizen to vote and have to provide proof we will not win anything.
Many of us agree with Katy Grimes that Steve Hilton can beat Xavier Becerra and that Spencer Pratt can beat Karen Bass – but if only California has honest and fair elections? The criminal Democrat thug mafia will do everything they can to remain in power?
Republicans need to start paying informants big bucks to report election cheating. Somebody will talk if given enough money.
“Anyone paying attention in California is fed up with this corruption, that no politician seems to be prosecuted for. It’s easy to go after the consultants, but what about the politicians?”
You’re proving my point that Sheriff Chad Bianco would have been a BETTER, STRONGER candidate for Governor than the Fox News talking head mudslinger with the Trump-endorsement on his back to rile up the TDS-afflicted segment of the California electorate….
Keeping my powder dry, and watching the changes in the vote counts and composition closely…
HANG IN THERE, Sheriff Bianco – my hunch is that many of your voters used traditional Voting Day participation and are stuck in the backlog of the inefficiency introduced by cheat-by-mail voting and the procedures required to make it look like they’re running a clean election…
500,000 California government employees, their families and friends are NOT ready for change. Plus their unions can demand Track My Ballot receipts, proving they voted 100%, or else.
We are not in an ideological debate with Democrats. We are a paying 500,000 state government employees to make sure only Democrats win every single election, up and down the ballot. Regardless of who is their next union tool they pass off as their “endorsed candidate.
Pay very close attention to the State Superintendent of Schools race. When will the long count and/or the Democrat Mean Machine take down current front runner is SONJA SHAW, who radically suggests we teach students how to read, right and do arithmetic before we award them gold stars on their HS diplomas for “environment competencies*”. (*Recent Monique Limon-backed state legislation.) Your Prop 98 billions at work.
Count down to the flood of yard signs across this state
How do you counter: TEACHERS SUPPORT XAVIER BECERRA
(OR XYZ)
Fercrissakes, TEACHERS just tried to pass off Eric Swalwell as their Chose One and damn near pulled it off.
To the mattresses, people. Get ready to take on the Prop 98-bloated teachers unions.
Yup… Michelle Ascencion, the incumbent(hand (s)elected Ventura County Clerk/Recorder ran ads in the local papers with half a dozen union logos underneath her advertisement, touting their support…
Danger, Hate, I was hoping for a positive opportunity for change….
Time will tell….