Steve Hilton vs. the California machine
The Hugh Hewitt Show: Highly Concentrated
Salem Podcast Network
4.4 • 610 Ratings
🗓️ 8 May 2026
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
Hugh discusses the upcoming California and Maine elections, the proposed Iran "deal", and talks with Steve Hilton, Senator Tom Cotton, Larry O'Connor, and Victorino Matus.
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| 0:47.1 | Grace America, I'm Hugh, at Inside the Beltway. |
| 0:50.6 | As many of you know, I used to live in California. |
| 0:53.0 | I lived in California until 2016. This very day, I was sitting with another ex-California, and we were talking about how wonderful it was to live in California in the 80s and the 90s, back in the days of Duke Majin and Pete Wilson, and how it's gone to hell. And we began talking about the debate that was held earlier this week, so I thought we would try and get a hold of one of the participants in the debate, Steve Hilton. And Steve is here to talk about the debate so that I don't have to worry about equal time rules. We're talking about the debate here. It's a news event, so I'm allowed to talk to them about it. Steve, you crushed it in the debate. First, tell me, just a technical matter. |
| 1:28.4 | What did you make of the moderators? |
| 1:29.5 | I like Alex, but I've never worked with his colleague from CNN. |
| 1:35.1 | Caitlin, I honestly thought it was a good, I thought it was good. |
| 1:37.5 | Here's why. |
| 1:38.3 | They actually let us debate. |
| 1:40.7 | They weren't so insanely kind of fussing about their rules and minute here and they let us |
| 1:47.4 | actually challenge each other and that leads to a better outcome obviously they can't have a |
| 1:52.5 | complete free for all but I thought of all the ones that we don't we had another one last night |
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