Steve Hilton, a former Fox Information contributor, has launched a marketing campaign for California governor.
He debuted a video that was half biography and half scathing of its evaluation of Democratic management, viting Covid lockdowns and crime.
“We acquired to finish the one-party rule that acquired into this mess. It’s time to finish the years of Democrat failure,” Hilton stated within the video.
Hilton is working as a Republican, though he can be competing in an open main subsequent yr the place the highest two finishers, no matter occasion, will go on to the overall election.
On the Democratic facet, former Vice President Kamala Harris is contemplating whether or not to throw her hat within the ring within the race to succeed Gavin Newsom, who can not run once more due to time period limits.
Each events have massive fields of candidates already looking for one of many two common election slots. One other excessive profile Republican within the race is Chad Bianco, the sheriff of Riverside County.
Hilton hosted the weekly present The Subsequent Revolution on Fox Information from 2017 to 2023. He was an adviser to British Prime Minister David Cameron earlier than changing into a resident of the Golden State in 2012.
The final Republicans to win a statewide election in California had been Arnold Schwarzenegger, who gained reelection to governor in 2006, and Steve Poizner, elected insurance coverage commissioner that yr.