A recent poll showed 48% of Californians are considering voting Republican in the next gubernatorial election.

In this episode, we speak to entrepreneur and bestselling author Steve Hilton about what went wrong in California and why it's ripe for political change.

I'm Georgia Howe with Daily Wire, editor-in-chief John Bickley.

It's Sunday, March 30th, and this is a weekend edition of Morning Wire.

Joining us now to discuss the pent-up frustrations fueling the California political shift is entrepreneur,

author, and podcast host Steve Hilton. Steve, thanks so much for coming on. Thank you very much.

Good to be with you. So Steve, a variety of polls right now are showing that voters are not happy

with Democrats, including in Deep Blue California. Do you think there's a chance a conservative

candidate could actually win in 2026 for the governor's race? Yes, 100%. The poll you're talking

about has been a couple actually in the last few days. One had 50% of Californians open to voting

for a Republican candidate for governor, another one had 48%.

And the feeling that we can't go on like this in California has been building now for such a long time.

You saw a real move forward in the right direction, as I would see it, in the elections last year.

In November, 10 counties flipped

from blue to red, including major counties like Fresno County in the Central Valley, the fifth

biggest city in California. So 10 counties shifting from Democrat or Republican. We actually don't have

that many counties in California. It's 58. So that's nearly a fifth. That's a big deal.

We saw a massive positive vote for Proposition 36, which was the one that, as its supporters,

including me, we used to talk about it as making crime illegal again. Prop 36 was undoing the

terrible damage of the Prop 47 that Kamala Harris pushed many years back,

which basically legalized theft under $950 a day. You saw defeats for George Gascon,

the Sorosbacked DA in Los Angeles County, the recall of the mayor in Oakland and the DA there.

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