The Truth with Lisa Boothe: Can Republicans Win California? GOP Chair Corrin Rankin on Steve Hilton, Gavin Newsom & the Fight for the Golden State
The Truth with Lisa Boothe
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🗓️ 2 June 2026
⏱️ 14 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.6 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:04.4 | Welcome to The Truth with Lisa Booth, where we get to the heart of the issues that matter to you. |
| 0:08.5 | Today we're talking all things California with the California Republican Party chairwoman, Corinne Rankin. |
| 0:14.6 | We're going to dive into the election tonight. |
| 0:17.8 | They've got this jungle primary in the state where two people will advance. Obviously, |
| 0:22.8 | we're watching the gubernatorial race with hopes that Steve Hill and the Republican there, |
| 0:27.2 | my former colleague, a friend of mine, will advance in that election. And then also, of course, |
| 0:32.0 | the Los Angeles mayoral race where we've been watching Spencer Pratt, who could potentially advance against |
| 0:38.5 | Karen Bass there. |
| 0:39.9 | You know, one of the concerns is we've seen Chad Bianco, one of the Republicans running for |
| 0:44.3 | governor, could potentially block out Steve Hilton from advancing. |
| 0:48.3 | So we hope that doesn't happen. |
| 0:50.1 | But the big challenge is what happens after tonight. |
| 1:12.2 | If you do end up having a Republican advance in the gubernatorial race and the mayoral race, because look, let's face it, Democrats outnumber Republicans in state substantially almost by 5 million statewide, almost 2 million in Los Angeles alone. So how do Republicans overcome that gap? We're going to ask the chairwoman about that. What sort of apparatus do Republicans in the state have? So we'll dig in to all of that |
| 1:18.8 | and more with the chairwoman of the Republican Party in California. Stay tuned. |
| 1:31.1 | Well, thank you so much for coming on the show. |
| 1:38.4 | You know, it's great to see both Steve Hilton and Spencer Pratt, like, viable in running as governor and then also potentially mayor of Los Angeles. |
| 1:41.6 | What do you expect to see tonight? |
| 1:43.5 | What do you think is going to happen? |
| 1:45.2 | We're expecting to see what all the polls show and the data is telling us is that Steve Hilton |
| 1:52.0 | will make it into the top two this evening on the gubernatorial side. And we believe Spencer |
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