S8 Ep962: (2) Liz Peek examines how voters in California's primary face economic decline, high taxes, and out-of-control crime. Republican Steve Hilton campaigns on common-sense changes to address quality-of-life issues as residents reject "woke" policies in major
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🗓️ 3 June 2026
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| 0:00.0 | I'm John Betts with Elizabeth Peek of the Hill, economists, of Fox News, |
| 0:19.8 | economists, much on Fox business. |
| 0:21.2 | Primary day. There are votes in New Jersey. There are votes across the country. The one I'm watching |
| 0:26.8 | is California because it's a blue state, so there's not risk of something actually |
| 0:30.7 | overturning status quo. However, in that blue state, there's some drama. And the mayor's race in Los Angeles as drama, and the governor's race has drama in the primary time. |
| 0:43.7 | In the governor's race, Bacera, a California, a former member of Joe Biden's cabinet, |
| 0:50.5 | and a man named Tom Steyer, who's very well to do and has spent a great deal of his own fortune |
| 0:55.5 | in presenting himself as the governor. He's identified with green technology entirely. And then |
| 1:03.2 | the unusual presence of a man named Hilton, who's an English-born advisor to British governments, who is now a candidate in |
| 1:14.1 | California for the governorship. Apparently, it's okay. You can be born in UK and be governor of |
| 1:18.4 | California, good for California, but is on the Republican line, therefore, is likely not to be |
| 1:24.9 | successful in the general election, no matter how he does in primary days. |
| 1:28.7 | And then the mayor's race in Los Angeles. |
| 1:31.3 | Liz, I bring these up because they're an indication of where the voting public is right now with what is called a Trump derangement syndrome. |
| 1:39.9 | TDS, I believe, is what it's called. |
| 1:42.0 | But when it comes to not having Trump on the ticket, there's lots of confusion. |
| 1:48.1 | It's almost as if the Democratic Party doesn't know how to vote when they don't have a MAGA line to tell them which one is the anti-Maga candidate. |
| 1:56.4 | There are no anti-Maga candidates involved in California, and there's confusion at the top. Is that something |
| 2:02.4 | we'll see again once Mr. Trump is in the pantheon of presidents and no longer active? |
| 2:08.2 | Yeah, it's a really good question, because looking forward to the 2028 presidential election, |
| 2:13.6 | Trump will not be on the ballot, but just as he is in a sense always on the ballot, certainly in these |
| 2:20.3 | California races, his name comes up more than you would think. Undoubtedly, in 2028, whoever runs |
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