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Victor Davis Hanson on California’s Political Future & the UN’s Hypocrisy

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28.09.2026

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Victor Davis Hanson on California’s Political Future & the UN’s Hypocrisy

Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words” from Daily Signal senior contributor Victor Davis Hanson. Subscribe to Victor Davis Hanson’s own YouTube channel to watch past episodes.

Sami Winc: So, Victor, lots on the agenda, but I understand you were at a political event last night with Steve Hilton. I don’t know if you had a few things to say about that first, and then— 

Victor Davis Hanson: Yeah, I was asked. He was in Fresno, and I was asked to introduce him and then have a Q&A with him. 

Well, he’s the best-qualified Republican nominee in the last 20 years. He’s a polymath. He had his own tech company. He ran restaurants in London. He was the political adviser to the British prime minister, David Cameron. He had “The Next Revolution” for seven years as a Fox host, so he’s done it all, and he’s mastered California issues. 

So I asked him a series of questions on what do you do with high-speed rail? If you cancel it, what do you do with this Stonehenge infrastructure? What do you do with the Left stopping the California water project completion? What do you do with the decrepit…? What do you do with California? 

He had a lot of good answers. There were a lot of people there, but it’s going to be very difficult. 

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Xavier Becerra‘s attitude is two things. One, we, the Democrats, outnumber the Republicans in registration almost three to one. And the Hispanic vote is 45% of the population. I don’t know how many actually are registered and vote according to that demographic. Maybe not as high turnout as other groups, but they are angry at ICE and they tend to be very left-wing, most of them. And they’re turned off by Donald Trump. 

So Becerra’s strategy is threefold. I’m going to stay in my basement, and I’m not going to campaign. I think there’s going to be a debate tonight, Friday night. I’m not going to campaign. Stay in my basement. 

Number two, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump. Trump is at 39%. He’s endorsed Hilton. Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump. 

And three, I don’t want to say a word about the multibillion-dollar fraud in California. I was attorney general at one time when there was a lot of fraud that was starting. I was the head of HHS when the federal government’s funds were being misused. My chief of staff and Gavin Newsom’s chief of staff have dipped into campaign funds in an improper........

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