All-In Podcast

All-In Podcast ·California gubernatorial candidate Steve Hilton joins the besties to make the case that sixteen years of one-party rule have driven the richest state in the richest country to the worst outcomes on poverty, cost of living, and business climate. He frames his campaign as people versus machine — a donor-and-union machine that passes over a thousand unread bills a year — and lays out a path to victory through the 26% of undecided, financially squeezed working voters, promising no state income tax on the first $150,000 of income, $3 gas, and a $73 registration cap while casting opponent Xavier Becerra, in the words of Democrats who worked with him, as unfit. Midway, Spencer Pratt arrives from his own independent Los Angeles mayoral run: his AI-assisted viral videos carried a truth message that cut through in a city where most of his voters were Democrats, yet he lost to a late-count flip he calls mathematically impossible. The conversation turns to California's ballot system: envelopes separated from ballots, chain of custody broken, ballot collection legal where campaigning at the ballot is not. Pressed on whether fraud cost him the election, Pratt says that without evidence he would say no. The final act moves from ballots to fire: still-empty water tanks, protected dry brush, a class action with 10,000 victims over the Palisades fire, and a blocked rebuild — closing on Pratt's pledge to keep making truth-first content and stage a comeback.