🚨California’s only gubernatorial debate happened tonight, and Xavier Becerra got destroyed.
Joel Pollak called it a “total disaster” for the Democrat, and the tape backs him up. Becerra mentioned Trump more than a dozen times in one hour.
Hilton asked him to name one thing he’d done to cut red tape. He couldn’t. Hilton asked how much money he’d taken from OpenAI and Anthropic. He dodged. Hilton quoted Susan Rice calling Becerra an “idiot” and Becerra wouldn’t even defend himself.
The Democrat playbook is always the same: sue, sue, sue. As California attorney general, Becerra sued the Trump administration more than 120 times. It cost the state over $41 million. His office claims an 82% win rate, but most of those cases were still pending when he left. He sued Huntington Beach. He sued tech companies. But when it came time to put money into programs that lift people out of crisis, the train went nowhere.
This is the man leading by 25 points. The man who won’t answer questions. The man who thinks “Trump, Trump, Trump” is a governing philosophy.
But here’s the part that should scare you. Becerra is the whole Democrat establishment that broke California, wearing a new suit.
Go back to when Republicans held a real share of Sacramento. A balanced slate. A different world. Safety. Security. Crime rates that were a fraction of today’s. Homelessness wasn’t even a topic in the news. It was a fringe problem, not a tent city on every corner. Hollywood was popping. Businesses were thriving. Now the studios are empty and companies are fleeing the state.
Then came the one-party machine. And look where we are. The $18.5 billion deficit. The largest unsheltered homeless population in America. Insurance rates driving families out of their homes. Crime so bad people film it because “you will not get caught.”
Becerra was attorney general. He was HHS secretary. He’s been inside the machine his entire career. He didn’t just watch California decline. He helped run it.
And the record is ugly. As HHS secretary, more than 85,000 migrant children went unaccounted for under his watch. The New York Times found HHS couldn’t reach them on follow-up calls. The inspector general found sponsor checks skipped, children released before fingerprint results came back. Becerra told Congress he had “no idea” if the numbers were real. He compared the placement process to an “assembly line.”
They’re just sucking up donation dollars, struggling for more power, leading California down this downward spiral. And I think we’re hitting close to rock bottom.
This is no longer about party. It’s about survivability. California is falling into the abyss, and the people who broke it are asking for four more years to finish the job.
Any sane Californian, regardless of party, cannot ignore what’s happened to this great state and the condition it’s in currently.
We have to act now. Forget about your party. Do what’s right for California and your families.
Steve Hilton and Xavier Becerra faced off in California’s only scheduled gubernatorial debate. California Post Opinion Editor
@joelpollak called it a “total disaster” for Democratic candidate Becerra.
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