Each card sums up what the candidate said across every video we indexed. Each sentence links to the clip it comes from.
Taxes and cost of living
Steve HiltonR
Hilton proposes $3 gas, halving electric bills, exempting the first $100,000 of income from state income tax, and homes people can afford.
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Hilton says he would pay for tax cuts by cutting bureaucrats, fraud and error, high-speed rail, and nonprofit homelessness payments.
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Hilton argues Democratic policies make California about $34,000 a year costlier than average, and says $70,000 earners pay 9.3% state tax.
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“$3 gas, cut your electric bills in half, your first 100 grand tax-free, a home you can afford to buy.”
Becerra argues Hilton's across-the-board tax cuts give billionaires a 40% tax break that would come out of schools, health care and housing.
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Becerra proposes that high earners whose investments are taxed below a teacher's or firefighter's rate pay more, under predictable tax policy, alongside program cuts.
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Becerra opposes the one-time billionaire tax initiative and proposes declaring a state of emergency to freeze property insurance and utility rates.
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“You're going to end up giving the wealthiest Californians, billionaires, a 40% tax break, the biggest in California history.”
“He wants to give the richest Californians, millionaires and billionaires, a 40% tax cut, which means of course he'll take it out of our schools, he'll take it out of health care”
Hilton proposes a working-class health care guarantee with a low premium and low deductible, funded by cutting waste and fraud.
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Hilton opposes single-payer health care and proposes cutting state spending on health care for citizens of other countries.
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Hilton says he is pro-vaccine and would follow vaccine law, but argues fewer mandates bring higher compliance and Becerra recommended masking toddlers.
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“That's why I've announced my plan for a working class healthcare guarantee that will have a low premium and a low deductible by cutting out the waste and the fraud”
Becerra proposes keeping people on Medi-Cal, including undocumented immigrants, arguing early primary care costs less than emergency room care.
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Becerra pledges not to kick people off coverage under federal work requirements and says Trump's health care cut will close rural hospitals.
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Becerra says HHS followed the science on vaccines, forced no one, and delivered about 700 million Covid shots without charge.
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“That means keeping them on Medi-Cal so they can see the pediatrician or their family doc or their OB when they need to, not when it's an emergency”
Hilton says he would follow SB 54, aim to lower the temperature, and prioritize removing criminals in the country illegally.
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Hilton argues that as HHS secretary Becerra dismantled sponsor vetting for migrant children and sent thousands to traffickers, citing a New York Times investigation.
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Hilton says Becerra's party is not enforcing California law, and denies Becerra's claim that he called for deporting every farm worker.
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“And so I would follow the law. And in fact, my goal here would be to lower the temperature”
Becerra supports a regulated immigration system and an enforcement agency but opposes family separation, deadly raids, and masked agents in unmarked vehicles.
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Becerra proposes immigration reform so no young child is detained, and says Trump dismantled the care system for migrant children.
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Becerra argues Hilton called Trump's ICE raids "perfect," said every California farm worker should be deported, and welcomed ICE "mercenaries."
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“It is good to have a regulated system of immigrants to come into our country, including California.”
“we need immigration enforcement. We are a sovereign nation. We have a right to know who's coming into a to our through our borders, and we have a right to enforce a law.”
Becerra says Trump is withholding $30 billion for Altadena and Palisades fire survivors to force changes to voting law.
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Becerra cites suing the Trump administration about 120 times as attorney general, winning on the ACA, DACA, clean car standards and reproductive health.
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Becerra proposes having state law enforcement set terms with federal agencies before deployments, and says California must get its fair federal share.
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“He's holding $30 billion hostage for the victims and survivors of the Altadena and Pacific Palisades fires because he wants his way on voting.”
“30 billion is waiting to go to Pacific's Pacific Palisades and Altadena. Donald Trump doesn't want to let it go because Donald Trump isn't getting his way on elections.”
Hilton proposes capping government fees and regulations on a new home at $50,000 and building 10 new cities that counties bid to host.
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Hilton wants communities, not Sacramento, to build the housing they need, and opposes forced suburban apartment construction and density-focused policy.
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Hilton argues red tape from Becerra's party blocks communities that want to build, and says Becerra did nothing about it as attorney general.
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“I'm announcing tonight that I will cap that at $50,000. That is $150,000 off the price of a new home.”
Hilton proposes making sure every student reads by third grade, using phonics, and holding teachers accountable.
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Hilton argues schools under Democrats spend near the most for some of the worst results, with under half of students reading at grade level.
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“We need to make sure that every student reads by third grade. We need to use phonics in our school system to teach kids to read.”
Becerra proposes grade-level checks before promotion, tutoring, and affordable pre-K and child care so children start school ready to learn.
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Becerra proposes paying teachers like professionals and cutting bureaucracy to focus education spending on classrooms.
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Becerra opposes sending public school dollars to private for-profit schools and supports reauthorizing the Prop 30 and Prop 55 school revenue.
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“What we have to do is make sure before we pass a child on, we're making sure that they are at grade level.”
Becerra calls for AI enforcement and guardrails protecting children, workers facing job losses, public safety and privacy, saying Hilton is not interested in regulating AI.
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Becerra wants AI to supplement rather than replace workers, and wants the AI industry based in California while sharing its benefits.
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Becerra supports data centers only when they add jobs, energy and water capacity, and cites suing Meta, Amazon and Google.
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“He's not interested in regulating AI. He's not interested in telling these companies, you have to protect not just our kids and not just in school. You have to protect our workers”
“what I'm saying is, if you've got someone who's working, doing the job that now I seems like it might be able to do somewhat, that doesn't mean you jettison the worker just like that.”
Hilton argues 16 years of one-party Democratic rule produced the highest poverty, unemployment and cost of living, and says most Californians want change.
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Hilton proposes cutting red tape to bring Hollywood home, and says most workers' earnings have been flat since the 1970s.
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“highest poverty rate in the country, highest unemployment rate of all 50 states, highest cost of living by far.”
Becerra says about 50,000 film jobs have left and proposes production tax credits whenever the state gets more than $1 back per dollar.
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Becerra cites helping enact the first federal film production tax credit and says he won a lawsuit stopping Trump from imposing California water standards.
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“If we give a tax credit, so long as we get more than $1 back for that dollar in tax credit, we're going to do it.”
Hilton proposes $3 gas by producing oil and gas from California's own reserves instead of importing crude and gasoline.
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Hilton proposes halving electric bills by consolidating regulators, using existing natural gas plants more, and adding utility competition.
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“So, we're actually increasing carbon emissions as well as increasing cost. I would put all of that into reverse. That's the starting point is to use oil and gas from within California.”
Hilton proposes using California oil instead of imports, which he says cuts emissions and gas prices, and managing forests to reduce wildfire emissions.
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Hilton says there is no evidence California's climate policies help the climate and argues they impose costs on working-class Californians.
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“it makes absolutely no sense right now to do what we're doing, importing oil halfway around the world from the Middle East and from South America when we have abundant oil reserves here.”
Becerra argues Hilton would let polluters and Trump set energy policy, including oil drilling along the California coast.
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Becerra says climate goals must be achievable, carbon neutrality by 2045 looks harder to reach, and working families may not yet manage electric vehicles.
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“He wants to drill, baby, drill along the coast of California.”
Hilton proposes managing fuel loads by clearing brush and reviving timber harvesting, and says state agencies fined Palisades residents for clearing brush.
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Hilton says withheld fire money is what Newsom promised, including $2.5 billion, and that Los Angeles families still await Newsom's aid.
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“All you actually have to dois get back to common sense, which we've done for centuries,which is you manage the fuel load”
Hilton says he is a first-time candidate with a business background, not a career politician, and an outsider who can shake up the system.
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Hilton says he grew up in a working-class immigrant family, attended Oxford, and advised David Cameron before moving to California.
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Hilton argues Becerra never created a job in 36 years as a career politician, and says Becerra's backers produced the worst homelessness and highest costs.
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“This is the first time I've run for office. I'm not a career politician. I'm not an ideologue. I'm very pragmatic.”
Becerra cites decades in Congress, as attorney general and at HHS, and says he is the only candidate who has managed budgets California's size.
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Becerra says his immigrant parents, a construction worker and a clerical worker, built a stable life, and he wants that chance for similar families.
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Becerra says he was misled by people he trusted on campaign payments, calls them substantial but not illegal, and says everyone is accountable.
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“I'm the only candidate who's actually managed budgets and balanced budgets that are as big as the budget of the state of California.”
“So I made a quick decision, decided to run, got won a race, came out of nowhere in 1990 and and two years later, 92 got to Congress, served 25 years.”