Biden Out, Kamala In, and Republicans are Unified for Once

if the Republican party is smart they need to frame this election as change versus more of the same a majority of people in America want change CA Harris is not it she is more of the same disaster hello everyone welcome to the Steve Hilton show uh don't know I don't know where to start today okay so so we were off last week because I was the uh Republican convention in Milwaukee um and I mean every single day it seems something crazy I mean we always start this show by saying what's the big story the big story is every day something new I mean just think about what we've lived through the last I don't know was it eight nine days uh going right back to the the the day of President Trump's assassination attempt and then that crazy weekend and then to the Republican convention and the selection of JD Vance as his running mate and then you get back home as I did after an absolutely crazy day of flight delays that whole thing happened crowd strike and Chaos everywhere that would itself would have been a massive story um and I get back home and it's Saturday I think I'm day off right it's been such a crazy few days day off got to get you know recharge my batteries get back to work on Sunday there's so many things I want to be focusing on getting ready for the week and then Biden drops out and then it's carela Harris and then there's that whole conversation about whether it's going to be a primary or whatever and then she wraps it up and now she's the candidate and it's a whole new election and my goodness me what is going on it is all so insane um so I'm going to try and just capture uh where I think we are um I mean there's a couple of things that I want to say about the Republican Party about the Democratic party and what it will means for the election so let's start actually let's go back a little bit to the Republican Party and and and what really struck me about the convention in Milwaukee which was something I really haven't seen ever before and remember I've been to political events like this you know all my life uh all my professional life um going right back to the the very first party convention I attended was back in the UK in 1990 I remember very clearly it was my first one it was Mrs Thatcher's last one when she was the Prime Minister um and I remember it because we had it was just after the fall of the Iron Curtain and a lot of those new democracies in Eastern Europe wanted to come and say thank you to Margaret thater specifically personally for inspiring them in their Fight For Freedom against communist rule so they all came to I remember the place it was a Seaside town in England in England the party conventions typically were held in Seaside towns like Brighton where I grew up um this one was in Bournemouth and um I remember it because one of the countries represented there one of the new democracies was Hungary and I'm Hungarian I speak Hungarian and because the conservative party of cheap skates they press me into service to help translate um for the leaders that came over and so I found myself age 20 some you know kid working in the conservative party um actually there with the Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher um and trying to be The Interpreter for the hungarians that came over that to who wanted to say thank you um for their freedom and the role that she and and President Reagan played in it that the first time 1990 in England you have one of these conventions every single year not once every four years as we do in America they're smaller of course it's a smaller country but same kind of thing and so I recognized it very very uh very much when I was in Milwaukee and the thing that was so striking was I've never ever seen a convention for any party I've been to conservative ones in the UK here I've been to Democrat and Republican so clearly United and so optimistic and enthusiastic and that is extraordinary if you think about about what that convention followed on the heels of it was two days after the candidate of the Republican Party nearly died in this assassination attempt but the thing that was really interesting um and I you know I could speak for an hour about the convention and my perceptions of it and and what it felt like and and so on but what was really interesting was the fact that you had this genuine warmth of emotion and I think that is connected was connected to the assassination attempt and you had a party there where the the divisions and the political arguments were all superseded by this incredible warmth this Love Actually it felt like a family occasion and I think the fact that Donald Trump came so close to death in this miracle as lot a lot of people have commented on um just created a very special atmosphere the other thing that was so interesting and this was really confirmed by the selection of JD Vance as the nominee for vice president was the intellectual Unity of purpose that that provided um so if you think back to 2015 2016 and it was the rise of this what people call the the new populist movements and you saw it with brexit in the UK that I was involved in president Trump's election here but also Bernie Sanders on the left this populism that was emerging and no one really knew what to make of it I was one of the first people to really I think understand it and respect it and and and I was on television talking about it that's where I first met JD Vance actually we we became friends because we were both out there talking about this new phenomenon that working people had been left behind for so many years by The Establishment consensus in both parties PR globalization relaxed about you know the manufacturing industry closing down and jobs being shipped to China and open borders and all that kind of stuff and the people that benefited the elites on the coasts um really didn't seem to care about the impact on communities in the Heartland and JD Vance obviously wrote about that in hillbilly elery and I was writing about that and that's when we bonded and what's really interesting if you go back to 2016 and see where we are now that whole intellectual movement that that was initiated by this shakeup of the traditional Republican Orthodoxy that Donald Trump's election heralded it is now the new Orthodoxy and that's why the selection of JD Vance was so important it brought intellectual cohesion to this new Republican party I remember saying back in the day that um the Republican party with Donald Trump's election had the opportunity to become a multi-racial workingclass coalition and that opportunity is now turned into reality and that's what that convention was all about that sense of clarity of purpose we know who we are we're happy with who we are we're proud of who we are we're proud of our leadership Donald Trump JD Vance were a United family that was the spirit and and and people left Milwaukee as I did with this sense of this is you know we're looking really good and you have this appalling hopeless candidate on the other side things are looking good and then Biden drops out and suddenly everything is shaken up again and so I just want to talk about where we are now with KLA Harris who's obviously been anointed as their candidate on the Democratic side and what that means for the race I think the thing that is very important not to underestimate people are very you know you can be rude as you like about KLA Harris and that's fine but the point is she is an impressive person right she is a serious person she's an impressive person um and and when we think about how to uh look at the arguments that are going to play out in this election campaign that's now been completely reset there's a couple of things to remember first of all you're going to see the media 100% behind KLA Harris just as they were in 2020 behind Joe Biden the media are now absolutely part of the democratic campaign in a way that they really weren't when Joe Biden was nominee because even they by the end could see what a disaster he was and so that's all gone and now you're back to in a way the normal State of Affairs incredible bias from the media in favor of the Democratic candidate that is very important uh it's going to be a very important factor secondly it's important to make arguments that are reasonable and believable about um candidates that's all that's true of all candidates in all Races is particularly true now because the thing about kamla Harris and remember i' I've spoken about this before I've met her I had dinner with her um when we first moved here in 2012 uh to California have mutual friends we had a dinner she was then the State Attorney General um and there are lots of things you can say about her record and so on I by the way I liked her she was good company I thought she was a smart impressive person personally I liked her as a politician though here's the Fatal floor and this is where we have to zero in on why she would be such a disastrous president it's not that she's left-wing or this or that she's got a terrible record whatever you can talk about those things the real problem with carela Harris is that actually she's just like Joe Biden she is a machine politician who just goes along with whatever she thinks will help her politically and that's why she's been all over the place on all of these different arguments and she at one point she was running around saying she's tough on crime and Kamala the cop and the nation's top cop um in the nation's largest state she used to put it that way and then the next minute she's all you know on her knees effectively for BLM and and helping to bail out rioters and saying that we need to defund the police and reimagine the criminal justices and all that kind of stuff she's a panderer she's a panderer to wherever she thinks the power lies and what will help her in her political career exactly like Joe Biden exactly like him she's a machine politician without any bedrock of principle or belief or conviction and that is really dangerous in a leader why because it means that you will be pushed around you'll be pushed around by events you'll be pushed around by pressure groups and organizations and the people who shout the loudest and that's exactly what we've seen with Biden exactly what we've seen you see in foreign policy with the disaster in Afghanistan and and Iran and all the chaos that that's Unleashed around the world that is because Joe Biden is weak and he caves to pressure that's what's happened we've got a much more dangerous world as a result of it and because he's weak and caves to pressure he caved here on domestic policy to the far left and that's why you have open borders and all this ridiculous climate extremism and all the money being spent and handed out to leftwing causes driving the inflation that we've seen so the Border chaos the crime chaos that's another example of pandering to the farle the economic chaos the foreign policy chaos all of this stems from the fact that Biden was a weak machine politician who caved to pressure she's exactly the same that's exactly what you're going to get and so the real story of this election is whether or not people think that carela Harris is the change that they clearly want or whether the Republican Party in the Trump campaign will be able successfully to show the truth which is that Carla Harris is more of the same more of the same party obviously but more importantly more of the same kind of politician their weakness and pandering to the powers that drive the Democratic party today especially the far-left will lead to disaster and that's the argument that needs to be made and it's going to be a close election um it was closed before it felt like it was drifting uh further in the Republican party's favor in Donald Trump's favor it feels like that's come back again because you're going to have the media you're going to have lots of excitement on the Democratic side you're going to have all these groups that were really kind of holding back because they were so demoralized by Joe Biden the younger um people in the Democratic party and so on you know be energized you see that already that's an advantage but remember the election is not going to be won by you know a handful of young people on Tik Tok or in California or New York whatever is going to be one in Michigan and Pennsylvania and Wisconsin in those swing states that are going to be so crucial and as I've said you know California Democrats typically do not do well when they run for president because they find it hard to connect with people in the Heartland we'll see how she does but if the Republican party is smart they need to frame this election as change versus more of the same a majority of people in America want change kamla Harris is not it she is more of the same more of the same disaster and if that argument prevails um despite the excitement that we're seeing in the Democratic party right now in the days after her coronation she's still going to lose so we just touched on it there a big story that's been part of this historic sequence of events the assassination attempt on Donald Trump and of course apart from the drama of that and the Miracle of of his survival and turning his ear to read the chart he told the story in his convention speech the big question everyone is asking is how on Earth did this happen how did it happen how could someone wander around you fly over the area with drones and wander around with a gun and be spotted by local police and flagged as suspicious and all that information conveyed to the secret service and then just allowed to lie there on a roof within was it 120 yards I mean just you know all the facts and it's just unbelievable to people but the the part of this that I want to focus on is what it tells us about modern government and bureaucracy so many people have commented on the specifics of the case I'm not going to add to that um Dan Bonino if you follow him has been absolutely brilliant on all of the details here he's been fantastic I've learned so much from him about this I want to make a broader point so it's now we're taping this on Tuesday the 23rd of July and just today nine days after well actually 10 days nine days was the hearings yesterday Kim cheel head of the Secret Service goes to Capitol Hill to testify before Congress carrying out their constitutionally mandated oversight role one of the biggest scandals imaginable she goes there and you know starts by saying it's my fault and I take responsibility and this was a failure okay fine and then proceeds in these hours and hours of testimony to basically say nothing to not answer the questions and they're asking basic questions these members of Congress and it's bipartisan practical simple questions about what happened and who's responsible and the timeline all these things and she just says I don't know we're still nine days away and they're saying yeah it's nine days away why don't you know and why aren't you giving us information that you've already shared with their news media absolutely outrageous she's finally resigned that happened today but the broader point point is this she typifies what you see now in these government bureaucracies right just everything about her that kind of stonewalling and the bureaucratic speak this inhuman language they use to evade accountability the kind of wishy-washy frankly the terminology you can just it's like it's written by AI or a computer or some corporate lawyer and it's all designed to avoid saying anything to avoid accountability to avoid um being held responsible for anything to avoid giving out any information I mean the whole thing is so typical of our modern bureaucratic government agencies and there's something really rotten here in the culture of these agencies you see it right across the board not just here from this person any of these kind of people when you see them up testifying or and and you see it in in your life you know when you get responses it's got a maddening infuriating bureaucratic response to things and no one gives you a proper explanation and they sort of issue these orders and instructions and then you're told to do this or do that and you ask why and they say sorry that's our process that's our procedure we're complying blah blah blah you know on and on this kind of way of speaking this way of thinking but the the the real Point here is that all of this right all of these agencies all of these bureaucrats we pay for them it's our money that funds all of it we work incredibly hard and we pay our taxes and these people paid by us and they treat us with total contempt that is the serious Point here you saw it from this woman Kim chedel the head of the well no longer but the the head of the Secret Service but you see in all of them I can't think of a single one that I've come across that actually behaves as if they understand that they work for us and that we are paying them and they are our servants and not the other way around that's what's got to change not just this person in this bureaucratic agency all the people in all the bureaucratic agencies need to remember who they are working for that's the big change we need right across the government both at the federal level at the state level and at the local level it's everywhere and it's got to change all right joining us today for California Corner um very very special and important um guest right on the money in terms of what you all need to know about because it's Jen van la our friend you you've met Jen before here many times from Red State um and she's really been doing the work over the years to expose the truth about uh the new Vice uh the new Presidential nominee vice president KLA Harris uh for the Democrats and she's out there running around saying I'm a prosecutor and look at my record and I was Da in San Francisco and an AG and I can prosecute the case okay great so let's look at her record and there's no one better to help us with that than Jen because you've been covering this for years um let's start with the a really appalling Scandal when she was Da in San Francisco which you covered first which is this cover up of child sexual abuse she's running around saying when she lists the things she's most proud of she goes Prosecuting sex ual predators that is not territory that I think she would want to really have a lot of focus on given her record but tell us the story right and it really isn't something that she has a great record on and a lot of people know that she was California attorney general but they don't really realized that she had been San Francisco district attorney before that and and then she was replaced by George gascan so that's interesting but when she was the uh San Francisco da it was around the time there was a lot of the Catholic sex abuse scandals going on and the Catholic church is very powerful in San Francisco politics there's a lot of families like the Brown family the Getty family that have gone to these Jesuit schools even the Newsome family and so they they have a lot of pull in there so uh when kamla with San Francisco da she had a bunch of files going back 80 years regarding sex abuse in the San Francisco Arch dicese including a guy that had sodomized a 15-year-old boy another one who had uh police alleged had sexual relations with at least 24 children and one of these uh one of these priests went on to work in the Vatican and allegedly to root out things with pedophilia and sexual abuse and commo refused to release these files when press organization sued for open records act to try to get them because she she was saying well that's going to hurt the victims more and the victims are going no we want Justice and the only way this Justice can be done is for people to know how pervasive the problem was and who these uh priests were who were doing this and who was covering it up exactly so I mean as far as I recall the story is that there was a statute of limitations issue there's some Supreme Court case or whatever in terms of the criminal prosecution and so the victims wanted to bring a civil suit and they needed the evidence that she had and so they were begging her for this I've seen some of the video and she said no right and even her predecessor with saying why there's no issue with you turning it over there's no there's not going to be any criminal actions obviously so it's not going to hurt them in that way and and plus your da who cares if it hurts the criminals and so that's why then the the uh press organizations were also trying to jump in too and when you have the San Francisco press saying that you're protecting criminals too much I think that's like a huge sign that you've gone too far I mean what did did she say anything has she said anything about this has she been pressed on this she hasn't really been pressed on it because you when she ran for president she got out so fast that a lot of these things never really came to light and I had I had a list of things I was going to call her out for and all of a sudden she was out of the race so I kind of didn't really say anything about it I I wrote a little bit once she was named as the VP nominee but we were more focused on Biden at that point so a lot of this still needs to come out and whenever she's pressed on things what she said a lot of times she'll say oh um other people in my office said this or other people in my office argued this if it say it was a California doj brief she'll say she didn't know that that was what they were arguing like in the case of the where she was using prisoners as basically slave labor when she was confronted on that she says oh I didn't realize that's what we were arguing well then you're just a bad boss if you don't know what your people are arguing you know so we really need to press her on this and get her get someone who's a dogged journalist in her face making her own up to this exactly well that well we we we have one right now in our phase which is you Jen I don't think she'll talk to me though I know but let's let's just so just before we leave this one let's just kind of draw a line under this and say is you know there's no there's no doubt about this right this is not some kind of allegation on this cover it's basically a cover up of the child sex abuse Scandal because she refused to hand over the information that would have enabled the victims to bring a civil suit and it's the victims who've gone on record to complain about this and and the argument is that she was siding with the establishment there in San Francisco for her own political benefit and so the Deep Point here is here is someone so okay you can argue about this particular case and I've said I mean there like it's the most evil crime imaginable child sex abuse it's just sort of just so despicable and and in the face of something like this to side with the perpetrator against the victim which is what she's doing is is really revealing so put aside the actual specifics of the case what it tells you is that this person will do anything for her own ambition and climbing up the ladder and and and and in that sense this is what I say the whole time she's just like Joe Biden like a classic M machine politician doesn't believe in anything is just all about what works for her politically and and and this particular case when you've got such a heinous crime um is highly revealing that even in this case she would put her own interest first before victims of child sex abuse right so that's that one let's get to your other list Jen I want to I'm want to hear hear as much as we can get through okay so another thing that she did is San Francisco da she was she's been ahead of the progressive curve on every terrible policy including basically refusing to prosecute illegal aliens for things that she would prosecute uh American citizens for and especially when they are responsible for killing American citizens in a a case that's particularly close to me because I'm friends with this family the Rosenberg family they had a son Drew who was living in San Francisco they're from the Los Angeles area Drew was up there trying to make his way as a young lawyer in law school and was writing his motorcycle on the Streets of San Francisco this Roberto Gallo from El Salvador is here illegally he had overstayed his Visa he had already been pulled over for having um an expired registration for not having a license different things like that kamla refused to impound cars of illegal aliens because she wanted them to be able to get around to their jobs and so we he was on the radar he already had been pulled over a couple of times and also on suspicion of drunk driving so then he was out driving drunk again when he uh turned right into Drew rosenberg's was on his motorcycle the guy panics he knows that he's probably killed this guy runs over him backs up runs over him a couple of times while trying to get away kills Drew uh kamla would never even turn over the toxicology reports to the victim's family they ended up the the police charged the guy with vehicular manslaughter K's office re just reduced that to a misdemeanor the guy served 45 days was never turned over to ice yes 45 days for killing someone drunk driving and uh don Rosenberg has been trying to get kamla's attention ever since then she became AG right after that and then Senator and she just refuses to even talk to him that's an amazing story I I actually didn't know that um I that story I hadn't heard the specifics I mean that's why it's so important to to have you on because you know this stuff Jen you know I think I've Pro you know maybe years ago I read something but like now now she's in the spotlight this needs to be known I mean that's outr and and she how dare she get out there and say I'm a tough prosecutor 45 days for killing someone that needs to be known the whole country needs to know that and that she's just unrepentant she does not care about any of the victims when your office doesn't even talk to victims and on a different sexual abuse case of a physician who is a Serial child molester and sexual assaulter she her office put out statements that seemingly blamed victims and just refused to even work with them and so it's similar to gascon they don't care about the victims they care about the criminals and especially if they're illegal aliens and that's who KLA Harris is and that's why she doesn't care about the border so what's the physician one I hadn't heard that as well tell us about that one uh well I need to pull up more about it but it's a very long-term one the guy is actually dead now there was prosecutorial misconduct in it there was uh things where uh the victim like I said where they had been coming to her as ag even and like help us with us this came out of your San Francisco uh DA's office and and she just either refused or would turn it back on them and act like they were the problem but I can bring you uh we can do another episode and really bring that out with the details and there's probably people who will love to go on the record uh going in detail about their stories and the things that KLA did to revictimized them it's really interesting because she she this this whole question about where she stands on crime um and clearly it's going to be a big part of her message I mean basically that is her message like I was just watching her I was I was on Fox earlier before we're taping this um and we watched a little bit of the speech and I had to react and it was you know she so she does her thing about I'm a prosecutor and I know Donald Trump's type and whatever that's her little routine now she's doing and outrageously she's literally talking about sexual predators like even though you know despite what you've just laid out for us she's going on about how she prosecutes sexual predators and so on so it's a bit that's her sort of main message and then she goes into the positive message there's nothing there I mean literally nothing just unbelievable platitudes about people and the future and whatever rub it right she's got no message right so this this prosecution thing this prosecutor thing basically is what she's all about and so we do need to dig into it it's it's incredibly important and the thing that's interesting to me is that it feels like she's been all over the place on this question again because she doesn't have any underlying beliefs it's just whatever's convenient for her politically so there was a time when she would run around saying I'm tough like she is now I'm a tough I'm the cop you know cop caler I'm the top cop in the biggest state and I run the biggest department outside the department of J blah blah blah on and on I thought that cops were bad I thought that the Liberals wanted to reimagine criminal justice and she did she did so so she's she's running around for a bit saying that then when she sees the which way the wind's blowing and it's all kind of defund the police and reimagined all that stuff then she's into that and she's bailing out rioter in Minneapolis who one of whom went on to kill and so then she's completely on the other side of that issue and now she seems to be kind of you know heading back to the being tough because she thinks that's what helps her politically and the basic point is you can't trust her at all but the record it sounds like what you're really saying is actually the record is weak and soft on crime except when it's a political opponents she's done things like send uh doj to raid gun owners homes people who registered their guns the way they were supposed to once we started started having in California these laws where you had to register certain types of guns that you'd made at home uh then she they try to follow the law because they're law abiding gun owners and then she sends people to raid them or David deidon with Center for Medical progress he did the Planned Parenthood baby part story she met with Planned Parenthood took uh campaign contributions and then guess what six weeks later David delon's house was raided door kicked in by kist thugs this is amazing you're an absolute gold mine I keep saying what you know like have you where is there a kind of comprehensive I saw you on social media you put posted some of the stories I'm going to keep listing them on Twitter because I have been writing for her I've been following her since 2016 and so I've got a bunch but I'm putting them into a a compendium of them just the new cycle has not stopped to allow me to get that finished and and so let's just be clear where can people follow you for that at redstate.com and also on Twitter at Jen vanar okay um I mean that's so so so she she's a she's weak on crime except when it comes to her using the justice system to go off off to her political opponents right kind of sounds like Joe Biden doesn't it it's amazing well that's right I mean that's why I think they're so similar they they really are you know they these sort of unprincipled machine politicians that's that's who they are I look forward to talking with you over the next few months because we've really got to get this out to the American public so they know who this woman is and get it to the journalists who will be able to get in her face and maybe maybe even Donald Trump to be able to confront her on this when they have some debate yeah I mean it was a really big moment when and she she completely wilts when everyone says oh she's so tough and whatever when tulsy gabber took her on um in the debate and you know and I I may say well you know she Tulsi was attacking her from the left as it were so I may not make the same argument but but it was just really interesting that she just completely collapsed she had no answer well and a lot of the stuff has been out there you and I were at the same event with Tulsa in Los Angeles a few months ago you were helping uh interview her and she said I just wouldn't Googled and first few pages of Google results were all these things that no one talks about when it comes to ca and she started bringing it out on the debate stage so it shows how lazy the mainstream media is yeah and and that's why we've got to work really hard now because she's so you know this media honeymoon for KLA Harris is just something to behold I mean it's already going on and it's just it's nauseating you know the kind of GID and the sort of you know oh so you know she's so cool and she's on Tik Tok you know like oh my goodness um but it's going to get well I said it right at the beginning the honeymoon is going to be like nothing we've ever seen before and it's it's not going to be a short it's going to go all the way to election day so we have to fight hard to get the truth about her out there for people to know absolutely and hopefully once they do those poll numbers start cratering then who knows maybe if we can get that done for the DNC they'll really have some kind of interesting convention amazing oh imagine that if she collapses in the next couple of weeks that would be incredible um Jen thank you so much really really appreciate you jumping on and joining us today Jen vanar redstate.com make sure you follow her on X and and get all this information that is going to be coming our way we really appreciate it thank you thank you all right joining us now for candidate Corner Roselia ooo who is not just a candidate she's actually in the California state senate now running for re-election it's a really important race I'm so happy that you could join us today we would tried to do it the other week and you were super busy up in Sacramento it was a bad idea it was in the middle of the that last bit of the legislative session is a nightmare for all of you I totally get that but I'm so happy you're here so just say you know tell us um a little bit about your District where where you are and your story just tell us about yourself thank you Steve I'm Senator oia chog I currently represent Senate District 23 which has now been redistrict to represent Senate District uh 19 in 202 more my current District encompasses uh Riverside County sunburn Dino County and just a little bit of uh LA County but my new District uh well let me just say my current District only 45% of my current district is in my new District so we are currently working really hard to carry our message across in the new areas in Baro Apple Valley Joshua Tree uh 29 palms and we go all the way to the desert to India Wells like kinta uh R Gage Palm Springs which are is a new area for us in in the district so it's been great traveling into those communities and getting to know uh community members through service organizations the Chamber of Commerce and so forth because there you know those are the people that really are engaged in their community so we're doing that right now uh currently just expanding our our reach to the new area but I've worked really hard in my current district and I'm very very excited about the work that we have been able to accomplish uh the building of the relationships and Trust here in in our district um I've had some goals that I wanted to accomplish and I think we've been very very effective in accomplishing those Fs in our current District it's a wonderful I mean I I all those places you I mean I don't know it well obviously you do know it very well but i' i' I've visited there and traveled around it's a beautiful part of the state um I'm looking forward to coming and and and uh doing some events with you in person but what's your story how did you get into all this um tell us a little bit about your background and what took you to this um this life that you're in now I know it you know it's really interesting because my husband always says how did the most unpolitical person become a senator in California um but it's a good thing I think it's a really good thing that I was not political and not really following a lot of politics growing up because it hasn't made me a jaded person and I'm an internally optimistic person I really do believe um that things can get better and as I have focused in education it really has made a huge difference in my current seat so I am a daughter of immigrant parents they they up here in um um when my dad was 16 my mother I eventually married my dad at the age of 18 and came to the US I was born here uh but a year later after they were married and arrived here in the US so I lived between Mexico and the US coming back and forth with my parents so the perspective that I have of embracing my Heritage my culture uh which makes conservative I always say you I am you know very proud of my Heritage but I'm incredibly grateful and very patriotic of this country and the opportunities that has you know been given to all of our family members but having grown up in California seeing especially when it comes to education that has been my my true focus in in Sacramento's education seeing the differences between what is expected in California what is expected in in in Mexico really give me a perspective as to what we're lacking and missing and the expectations here in California so I've been working really diligently on that end which takes me to how I became involved in this space I have worked I worked in various capacities volunteering at school district and then there was an opportunity to um there was an appointment there was a vacancy in the school board they were looking for people to appoint to the board and I was approached by one of the board members and Sprint tend say you know um say we have an opening and you can applying for for the appointment I said no I had not and suggested that I appli and I gladly was appointed to to the board I was surprised actually because some of the members had a lot of administrative background wanted a different voice voice and a different approach so that got me into the school board uh which was great as a governing experience but other than that I also worked as a f representative for a local elected for four and a half years which really got me uh involved into outside of my own Community to see what how legislation had impacted our local communities I also served in different capacities um as a board member for the East Valley Association of real tours which also had a focus on the legislative side so a lot of a lot of work went in outside in the par in in the in the perimeter of my experiences but I wasn't personally political you know I had never ran for office up until the senate race I was appointed to the board I was going to be reappointed I was reappointed to the board because nobody against me so it it just kind of uh just happened organically and I think when they were looking for a candidate that represented the area um because of the work I had done volunteering in the Chamber of Commerce in in the board of real tours and the school board my work as a field representative parttime uh because I've been a realtor but I did that part-time while still keeping my profession as a real Tor um I was pretty busy at one point uh in my life still very very busy I I gathered a lot of support and and it caught the attention of local political um uh peeps that you know reach out and have you considered for uh run for Senate and I chuckled but I but it took me a while and once I realized what that could give me as an opportunity to model what I wanted to see in government I saw what we currently had and I was not very happy with what was going on and I thought this is not what I want for my kids who for young adults or going into young adulthood and I thought you know what a great platform to really model what I want to see in governance right um I had been able to navigate that within my communities in various capacities with different demographics different political affiliations and I was very effective here in in my in my city so I thought you know why not bring that to a higher level and say hey this is a new way of doing things and I think it's been very very well received in my district I love it I love it so like it's it's like you were already engaged in the community and then and then it it wasn't like you were pursuing this but like it seemed like an opportunity that you should take so when when did that when were you first elected so um I was first elected in 2020 so this is my fourth year in the Senate I was elected in 2020 and let me just share with you that it has flown by I've never aged as fast as I have this past I should say five years the campaign was quite an interesting Endeavor there having campaign but you can imagine having to campaign in an area where I think we had more than 28 cities and communities at the time and during the pandemic of all times trying to campaign during a pandemic and trying to reach a million people in a district it was quite the Endeavor so boy did I learn really quick and boy was it a hard fall but you know this time around I'm going I'm going to work really hard so that it's not as it's not as hard the second time around if we but now with we districting we're starting all over again I know I mean and so and what was it a close race was it uh was it considered to be a safe Republican District back then or tell us a little bit about the politics of it oh back in 2020 actually no it was you know it's interesting when they asked me to run um right at the beginning we were pretty much 5050 so it was a very purple District right by the time I was elected I think within a year had uh plus I think three four five uh Democrat registered voters in the area so it was primarily a a Democrat District but we had a lot of independent voters and those were the Target that we were trying to focus uh on were the the independent borders because I thought I was a pretty you know I I didn't know exactly where I was uh politically but I knew I wasn't I I was pretty moderate I was pretty suful just because of the the background that I had listening and to the many many of the issues so um I I was able to navigate there my opponent at the time was also a member of the lgbtq community so we were both Latinas both Daughters of immigrant parents both school board members um the only and she was also uh a mom just like myself and it was really interesting because she was a member of the elg Q Community more in the Progressive side and I was defin much more um on the conservative side uh which always said you know Latinos are very conservative in their values in their perspectiv so um it was really very very interesting at the time to see which one and I know Sacramento took a lot of interest in the race to see who was going to make it you know across the line the progressive Latina which literally we had everything the same except our political perspectives demographically completely the same except she was lgbtq I was a conservative but you know I can't get away from that this year around around it it's another very interesting um race with you know who would be um you know my opponent this year is also from the lgbtq community but this time she is um she would be the first transwoman to be elected to the Calfornia State Senate so right they were very very um you know very interested in you know carrying that um that that milestone for for the El and so how do I mean this is what I'm so interested in because you're you're there you're trying to persuade people to get out and vote for you what what are the kinds of things that really especially in because I it seems to me I'm sure you'll have the same experience you know people don't know enough about the state legislature and how important it is to what goes on in California and it's such a big state and it's a beautiful state and everyone we have wonderful weather and everyone's enjoying themselves and I just feel like there's not enough attention that's one of the reasons I started this show is like you've you you know we all right now for example we've got the presidential race all the drama around that and Trump and Harris and Biden dropping out and that's people you know consumes so much of the news but in terms of your actual life um it's the legislature it really is for so many things how do you kind of get into that with people oh it's actually beautiful I am so grateful you asked that because that's been the most infected way of communicating to my constituents and one once again right as teachers we assess our children when we first get them in the classroom right we assess them we see where their strengths are what is it that they don't know and then we devise a plan of action in order to meet those gaps that's what I've been doing in in in this particular seat I've been really listening to my constituency listening to my colleagues in in Sacramento and seeing where they they all lie so that I can meet the the needs and facilitate the conversations and that it so with that in mind when it came to my district I realize and you're absolutely right most Californians are not familiar with the State of Affairs for the State of California when it comes to government so I always call it this is not political this is government 101 for California it's made up of the legislature which has you know the governor who's been a third-term Democrat I said we have uh the Senate which is made up of 40 Senators one of which I I'm representative approximately 1 million people 32 Democrats eight Republicans and then we let them know that you need 21 votes to pass a piece of legislation through the Senate and I said and the Senate has had the majority in California for 40 years approximately and then you go you're also made up of the assembly which is has 62 Democrat members and 18 Republicans and just so you know the legislature the assembly has had the majority for approximately 20 years so and you need 41 41 votes to pass the piece of legislation in the assembly and and the Committees within those houses are reflective of the makeup of the legislature and when people learn that those just those basic facts right there they gas you know it's often that people are just in awe of the makeup of the legislature who's been in power and so the next question that I go on can you you know can you folks mention uh what are your top concerns for California and then they they'll mention I go and I want start thinking about where and you know when did you start noticing those shifts when did you start noticing the the the the concerns that you that you see in our state and then when you place that in context of the makeup and who's been in power the connection this need and I think that's that's where and it's simple I'm not politicizing the issues I'm not you know I'm not vilifying my colleagues but I am educating them on government 101 for California there's a connection so what is the what are the answers to those what do you hear when you say okay what are the issues and when did you start seeing things really go in the wrong direction what do you typically hear so the economy the cost of living in the in California is is the very very very top um of the issues and there's a lot of factors that go into that right then we can break it down into why the cost of living is so high what what areas do you do you see um we talk about uh Public Safety you know the issues Public Safety in in California we talk about homelessness um and what factors came into play when it came to homelessness so we have cost of living we have um Public Safety we have homelessness um and guess what they're all interrelated on in in various forms then we have um education being some of the issues of there in healthcare um so all of that is interrelated but those are probably some of the very very top top issues that you know and of course the Border crisis but I always have to say the border is is a federal issue not you know I have any control over the Border um so I do try to differentiate and help people understand the difference between what the federal government can work on and what the state government can work on and and when it comes to uh the issues that pertain to them uh within the state is where I try to help people focus and they said this is why government um you know State Legislature is so important because that those issues that you're you're really speaking are greatly impacted by the legislation that's considered and and voted upon and signed by the governor in the state of California so education education education once you get that in oh my goodness it's easy it's easy to help people keep them on what I call it the frontal Lo of your brain uh where they analyze and and critically logically think about the issues versus you know attacking where you just put them on the pral brain given that I mean I I think about this the whole time and I'm on the road a lot up and down the state now making an argument for why why we need change what do you say if people say look you're so far behind right there's eight of you out of 40 32 democ in the Senate and and as you said in the assembly 6218 you're so far behind what's you know they have a super majority they have they can do whatever they want what's the point of even voting Republican because that you can't make any difference anyway what do you say to that oh my goodness great question as well because that makes me so excited but first of all one of the things that has given me really an optimism is really focusing on the fact that I know that I personally cannot change the state of California the legislature right now but what I can do is help facilitate information to my constituents which then I say you know please don't keep it private share with your sphere of influence processing because I can assure you that their local legislature is not going to give them this information so one of the things that I've done is use this platform to help um get the information of committees that are happening legislation that's being introduced who the who the legislator is and what committees give that information directly to my constituents who get an email right before committees and I said email it out to everyone you know across the States been one of the biggest um influences and here's the other thing that we've been able to do is really because we get people informed and engaged in a way that they haven't done before um what makes that what happens then is that it catches the attention of other people for instance the Arabic community I just did didn't who was not at all informed about the legislative process but Lo before they heard of the information came into contact kind of you know I had a little bit of a help there but when it came to you know learning about the issues in California all of a sudden the Arabic community you know was very very interested learning more about the legislature and information so our focus is really educating the public which then puts pressure on the local electeds and get engaged in the process and that's where I think many Republicans and conservatives have not been um engaged in this exactly because they've been you know so disillusioned about what's going on in California they don't realize that their voice really has power really if they own it and engage in it that's what San Francisco has done beautifully La has done beautifully UC Berkeley you know Sanford UCLA they've engaged their students on really helping constituents understand the power of the voice what the pressure feels like when they're you know in Sacramento putting the you know being in front of the legislators you know why legislators you know the the warm heart seat but our our job I think is most importantly is really facilitating what I call frontal lobe um analysis of ideas you know what does that mean the biggest mistake that I think we've had and I I often you'll hear me say this all the time is the biggest Council that was said don't talk about politics and don't talk about religion right right two things not supposed to talk about it and said well change that let's change the politics to maybe governance what does governance look yes what do we have to do when it comes to governance because yes we run with a label the label lets people know what our philosophy is on uh governing what is government supposed to look like but once we're elected we have a fiduciary duty to represent all our positions meeting with everyone to listen to what's going on and that's the only way we're really going to facilitate the discussion of ideas and really bringing forward policy their works for California's well-being and the quality of life so that's what that's what we're we're focusing on because otherwise this is what we do with with that you know not talking about politics and and religion is that now we're working in silos and EP which has been detrimental detrimental to California so what so last question just before I I'm going to at the end ask you to tell everyone where they can follow you and get involved and so on but just the last question before that um I mean how's it looking are you feeling you know when when what what what are the crucial times and it's the middle of the summer now when does it all really get going you have early voting you know what's the rest next couple of months look like for you so I think um so we've been working really hard but I think we we're going to really really focus on this in August September I really want to make sure that we are very aggressive in the next two months because ballots Dro you know at the beginning of October a whole month prior to we want people to get out the vote early on so that we're not chasing all of these votes and something happens at the very end um and you know everybody gets stressed out so we really really want to focus in the next two months so that when the ballots drop people know exactly who they're going to vote for hopefully me um and um in other Republic an was they understand you know the Dynamics in the legislature so anybody um that's interested in hosting in e um in just having conversation and dial of ideas please do Reach Out simple Google um rioo for Senate 2024 and the information will come up otherwise if I give you all the little things it you know my my name is so complicated it's but sd19 Senate District 19 2024 um or senator oobo or we see vote for Senate 2024 that will give you right into our our accounts we we're on Facebook we're on uh Twitter or X now and we're on Instagram and we have an official campaign website and we also have an official government so either way if you want to learn what my policies um my legislation has been we have the government side on that if you want to learn more of what we're doing right now and reaching out and engaging our community members we also have a campaign s wonderful I love it thank you so much I love your whole at I think you know so many people you hear say oh it's politician it's it's all arguing and yelling and screaming and can't we just have sort of practical people who just want to get things done I think you're the perfect example of that um and I can see why why um why why you've had such a great response thank you very much for joining us and I will see you there in your District soon I hope I look forward to seeing you and thank you so much for the opportunity to be here today with you of course thank you bye all right here's something I want to get off my chest this week There's been an awful lot of news as we've been discussing today so you may have missed this thing but it was one of these remarks that I thought was so revealing um it was on MSNBC it was during the Republican convention the host Alex Wagner she's the host now in their 900m hour except on Monday she's the kind of replacement for Rachel M except on Mondays and she was commenting about J Vance's wife and J D Vance's family and it was after his speech and you remember if you watched his speech he was talking about how um he was hoping for his family to be buried in the family plot in Eastern Kentucky or wherever it is telling this story it very moving story I was in the arena um for the speech and and he really connected with the people you know full disclosure I'm friends with JD Vance um and so it was lovely to see him talk in this very human uh way about his family and his wife um Usha uh also spoke at the convention and she's Indian and this is what Alex Wagner had to say about all of that just watch this clip he went a long sort of um a paragraph at least about this plot in Eastern Kentucky where his seven or six generations of his family are are buried and his hope is that his wife and he are eventually laid to rest there and their kids follow them and I sort of understand the idea of sharing the the burial plot but it also is it reveals someone who believes that the history that the family should inherit and indeed the history that should be determinative in the in the story of the Vance Family is the the history of the Eastern Kentucky vces and not the vances from San Diego which is where his wife is from and where her Indian parents are from but in America doesn't always have to be the white male lineage that trumps that defines the family history that that branch of the tree supersedes all else and and I and I just think the construction of of this notion reveals a lot about someone who fundamentally believes in the supremacy of whiteness and masculinity okay so white supremacy white male Supremacy so she's accusing a man who's who's just been talking about his family and whose wife has been talking about how he's embraced her family and you know Cooks Indian vegetarian meals and all the rest of it now he's a white supremacist because he wants his family to be buried where in his family plot in Kentucky and do you know what's really revealing about this um on the on the surface you could say yeah maybe there's a point there which is I guess what she's driving at let's just be fair and act in good faith what Alex Wagner is thinking is well there you know it's a it's a family and there's a man and a woman why should the family be buried in the in the white American man's burial plot why shouldn't they be buried in the Indian and you just think that okay that's superficially kind of true I guess but what is so revealing about that is the assumptions on the part of Alex Wagner about JD Vance's wife so what she's assuming is that Usha Vance this incredibly impressive professional woman they met at Yale law school and Alex Wagner in the way she made these comments is treating her like some Meek little submissive Indian wife oh dear she has to go along with the white man's plan for where they all going to be buried and so on and it just is so revealing that these people who claim that they're the great kind of you know gender Champions and racial Justice Champions all the rest of it their attitude is actually the racist and sexist one because it doesn't enter their head that actually maybe they've talked about it as a family and that Usha is very happy for the kids to the family to be buried there and all the rest of they've had this conversation and they love their life together and this is what they're both embarking on and and and so on doesn't even enter her head she's just got this stereotype in her mind Alex Wagner does of this Meek submissive Indian woman sort of bowing down before the white man and it's just so old-fashioned and Antiquated and offensive and so it's a small remark it's a tiny thing in the overall context of the conventions but I thought it was so revealing about the left and where they really are in all of this stuff and as we say all the time because it's true they are guilty of the exact same thing they always lecture everybody else about all right that is our show for today uh jam-packed uh the you know the news is jam-packed I mean my goodness can we keep up this pace I don't know what we'll be talking about next week but uh the way things are going it's going to be an interesting one we'll be here to cover it make sure you follow us at the Steve Hilton show tell your friends about the show tell your friends about Big Ideas Book Club always great guests and great conversations there and we'll see you back here next week for the next episode of The Steve Hilton show [Music]