President Donald Trump endorsed former Fox News host Steve Hilton for California governor on Sunday night, April 5. Hilton is one of two major Republican candidates running in this year's race to replace Gov. Gavin Newsom.
Newsom cannot run for another term. Trump wrote on Truth Social, "He is a truly fine man, one who has watched as this once great State has gone to Hell. Gavin Newscum and the Democrats have done an absolutely horrendous job."
Steve Hilton is an author, entrepreneur, and Fox News contributor who is running for California governor "to address the housing crisis, high taxes and the ‘staggering incompetence of Democrat one-party rule.'" He is calling his campaign nonpartisan, according to his website.
Hilton was born in the United Kingdom to Hungarian parents who fled communism. He worked in politics, advertising, and business, before he became head of strategy for former British Prime Minister David Cameron.
In the US, he is best known for hosting the Fox News Channel show ‘The Next Revolution’. Hilton says, “I think the most important thing, if you actually want to make change happen, is to have the right ideas as well as the courage, conviction and consistency to follow through.”
