@RepLuna Forget the Epstein client list. Can we see the Congress Hush Money Payout list? Who has used the slush fund the most? How much money has been spent?
If you're a conservative in California and NOT going to vote for the Trump-endorsed MAGA candidate, that makes you a Koch Libertarian saboteur. You might as well switch parties and become a Democrat.
Koch Libertarians always vote for the ringer not endorsed by Trump, in order to split the vote & help Democrats win, just to spite MAGA. They've been doing that since 1980.
That's how Perot got Bill Clinton elected with 43% of the vote! That's how California turned blue after Reagan - because the Koch Libertarians worked with the Democrats to fracture the conservative vote and elect Democrats.
Ten candidates, eight Democrats and two Republicans, have filed paperwork for the June 2 Primary ballot. Those candidates are:
Xavier Becerra (Democrat): Former United States Secretary of Health and Human Services and California Attorney General
Chad Bianco: (Republican): Riverside County Sheriff since 2018
Steve Hilton: (Republican): Fox News contributor, who is also a former senior adviser to conservative British Prime Minister David Cameron
Matt Mahan (Democrat): Mayor of San Jose
Katie Porter (Democrat): U.S. representative from 2019 to 2025
Tom Steyer (Democrat): Billionaire environmentalist and presidential candidate in 2020 election
Eric Swalwell (Democrat): U.S. representative from the Bay Area
Tony Thurmond (Democrat): The 28th California State
Superintendent of Public Instruction
Antonio Villaraigosa (Democrat): Former Los Angeles mayor and former Assembly Speaker
Betty Yee (Democrat): Former California Controller
California uses a top-two primary for governor: all candidates appear on the same primary ballot, and the two who get the most votes advance to November, no matter what party they belong to. That means Democrats and Republicans are competing on one field rather than in separate party primaries.
The top two candidates will advance to the general election in November. I guarantee it won't be two Republicans. It will be a Democrat and a Republican.
So, if the Republican vote is split between Hilton and Bianco - the Republicans will likely lose and Democrats will win the top two spots. This is the Libertarian plan. You hear from Libertarians who say voting for Bianco regardless of what Trump wants because they "know better." That's why California is choking blue.
Voters will choose California's next governor during California’s general election on Tuesday November 3td
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Cal State Fresno and various California Agricultural associations hosted a governor’s debate this week.
It was the first time both @ChadBianco and @SteveHiltonx were both together on a debate stage facing off against Dems.
I wasn’t there in person but I watched it and here are my notes 📝
👉🏼Quick Take: We used to feed the whole world, but California’s Central Valley agriculture industry has been decimated by Democrat climate policies. The absence of Dem frontrunner candidates Swalwell and Steyer reflects their commitment to continue destroying it.
👉🏼Becerra started by identifying the multiple crises that his own party caused, blamed it on Washington DC and the “illegal war in Iran,” and then said he has a track record of balancing a budget (fyi CA has an $18B deficit). 😂
👉🏼My son was listening in the car with me and after Mahan spoke he asked me if Mahan is a Democrat or Republican 😂 even a 6th grader can hear he copies all of his answers from Republicans depending on the crowd he’s speaking to
👉🏼Porter did the same thing Becerra did: they came from DC so they keep zooming out to national issues and policies rather than focusing on California. That will be how they would govern, too.
👉🏼I heard something new from Bianco (that Mahan copied in his own answer 😂), which is that he holds a non-partisan office with a successful track record and much of the problems facing CA farmers are due to partisan politics. Interesting.
👉🏼During nearly every answer, Porter leaned over to say something nasty, sarcastic, or condescending to one of the men next to her. Comes across as a real bitch tbh.
👉🏼Mahan wasn’t the only one copying answers from the Republicans. Porter copied Hilton’s tax plan 😂
👉🏼The Dems on stage basically all tried to out-Republican each other and run away from their own disastrous energy and water regulations and the Dem-supermajority California Legislature’s bad laws. If it wasn’t so exasperating it would be funny.
👉🏼Except Becerra. His answers were typical socialist solutions to cut costs - universal healthcare and insurance price caps - both of which increase not reduce costs and eliminate or reduce quality of services for everyone. Overall, his answers were zeros - rhetorical meaningless statements with a hint of communism and bigger government.
👉🏼Hilton has an impressive command of specific facts and offers specific solutions on whichever issue is raised in the debate. He sounds like knows California water and energy infrastructure issues better than anyone born here let alone any other candidate.
👉🏼Bianco does a great job hammering them on over-regulation in California unlike any other state, and pointing out they are already in control and if they really wanted to implement the solutions they are talking about, they could have done it already. The truth is they won’t. (Same point when they talked about building new infrastructure)
👉🏼Villaraigosa, who is polling at 3%, turned to the Republican candidates, who are polling at the top two, and said “you’re never gonna get elected. It’s a Blue State.” Wow.
👉🏼Both Bianco and Hilton beautifully ripped him to shreds over the arrogance and contempt for the voters from Democrat one-party rule. (@AVillaraigosa then spent the rest of the debate trying to backtrack from such an outrageous statement and pivot to working together)