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Steve Hilton

Founder and CEO, Golden Together · 1 appearance on the record.

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Steve Hilton served as Director of Strategy to British Prime Minister David Cameron and co-founded the political crowdfunding platform Crowdpac. He later hosted The Next Revolution on Fox News and founded the California policy initiative Golden Together.

27statements → 23claims → 21claims resolved → 24%fully supported → 4/5average certainty → 2.96/5average debate potential → 4.0/5argument clarity · the sources → 7said about them ↓

5 supported 10 partly supported 6 contradicted 2 not checkable as stated how the 23 claims stand · each chip opens the sources

1 prediction · 22 assertions · 1 opinion · 3 disclosures · every statement was checked. The prediction and assertions are the 23 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 21 are resolved, and 2 name no date, number or outcome precise enough to check. Everything else (opinions, insights, what ifs, disclosures) can never be settled by the record, so it carries no assessment.

The record, in short

What the tape says about how Steve argues and how the claims held up. Everything they said, and everything said about them, is in the tabs below.

Their most notable supported claim

Assertion Supported
Hilton: California has the highest unemployment and poverty rates in the US
“We're the state with the highest unemployment rate in the country and the highest poverty rate in the country tied with Louisiana.”
Steve Hilton Apr 29, 2026 ▶ 9:31 CA Governor Candidate Steve Hilton on Why California is Destroying Itself & How a Republican Can Win

Their most notable contradicted claim

Assertion Contradicted
Hilton: Labor unions file most CEQA lawsuits blocking housing
“Most of those lawsuits are filed by unions.”
Steve Hilton Apr 29, 2026 ▶ 31:49 CA Governor Candidate Steve Hilton on Why California is Destroying Itself & How a Republican Can Win

Expressed certainty vs assessment result

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50% certainty 3
47% certainty 4
none yet certainty 5

weighted support: a fully supported claim counts one, a partly supported claim counts half. Each filled bar is clickable and opens exactly those claims; "none yet" means nothing said at that certainty level has resolved yet

Argument clarity: do they answer the question? how? →

4.0 / 5 directness 4.2 · coherence 4.2 · precision 4.2 · compression 3.6

redirected or did not address 1 of 12 assessed questions (8%). Watch them ▸

This is a score against a rubric. It is not a rank. Every host question → answer exchange is scored with names hidden on directness, coherence, precision and compression, 1–5 each, on meaning alone: disfluencies are ignored, and only raw unedited episodes count. This is the score that measures thought. Every scored exchange, scores shown → · The rubric and its checks →

How they sound: speaking style how? →

266 words/min while actually speaking · 9.4 um and uh per 1k words

Measured by listening to the audio itself: 10,029 words across 1 episode of raw-level tape, transcribed verbatim with every um and uh kept, each one attributed only where the alignment onto our timed stream is unambiguous. These are measurements of speaking style. We do not rank them: across this corpus, fluency and argument quality are nearly uncorrelated (ρ≈0.2), and smooth talking does not signal clear thinking. How it's measured →

Everything Steve Hilton said on All-In that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

Assertion Partly supported
Hilton: CA solar fund gave $928M to non-profits, only $72M to solar
“Of that one billion total in 10 years, the actual amount spent on the purported benefit here Solar panel installation was seventy two million. Nine hundred and twenty eight million actually went to non-profits doing all, all the usual Democrat associated bulls…”
Steve Hilton Apr 29, 2026 ▶ 18:21 CA Governor Candidate Steve Hilton on Why California is Destroying Itself & How a Republican Can Win
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Hilton: California wastes $80B annually, 20% of state budget
“Well, our number over the last five years total, our estimate was four hundred and twenty-five billion. So averaged over the years, it's about eighty billion a year. So that's, so it's around, you know, 20% or so.”
Steve Hilton Apr 29, 2026 ▶ 20:07 CA Governor Candidate Steve Hilton on Why California is Destroying Itself & How a Republican Can Win
Assertion Contradicted
Hilton: Labor unions file most CEQA lawsuits blocking housing
“Most of those lawsuits are filed by unions.”
Steve Hilton Apr 29, 2026 ▶ 31:49 CA Governor Candidate Steve Hilton on Why California is Destroying Itself & How a Republican Can Win
Assertion Partly supported
Hilton: Gavin Newsom's top campaign donors are unions and trial lawyers
“Gavin Newsom's political donations over the 16 years he's been running statewide, just as a proxy for Democrat politicians, by category. The number one category, government unions. Number two, trial lawyers. Number three, non-government unions.”
Steve Hilton Apr 29, 2026 ▶ 36:45 CA Governor Candidate Steve Hilton on Why California is Destroying Itself & How a Republican Can Win
Assertion Contradicted
Hilton: CARB only counts imported oil emissions within 12 miles offshore
“CARB, the California Air Resources Board, which is obsessed with having all other businesses account for their carbon emissions right down the supply chain. Miraculously, the carbon emissions for the oil imports are only counted from when they're 12 miles off …”
Steve Hilton Apr 29, 2026 ▶ 41:19 CA Governor Candidate Steve Hilton on Why California is Destroying Itself & How a Republican Can Win
Disclosure
Hilton proposes assigning grades to every California school and teacher
“And that's one of the proposals I've got in my campaign, which is a grade for every school and a grade for every teacher. So we can reward the good ones and remove the bad ones.”
Steve Hilton Apr 29, 2026 ▶ 49:53 CA Governor Candidate Steve Hilton on Why California is Destroying Itself & How a Republican Can Win
Assertion Supported
Hilton: California has the highest unemployment and poverty rates in the US
“We're the state with the highest unemployment rate in the country and the highest poverty rate in the country tied with Louisiana.”
Steve Hilton Apr 29, 2026 ▶ 9:31 CA Governor Candidate Steve Hilton on Why California is Destroying Itself & How a Republican Can Win
Assertion Supported
Hilton: Katie Porter publicly adopted his plan for zero tax under $100K
“One of my Democrat opponents in the governor's race, Katie Porter. Actually, you know, we were doing a debate the other week in Fresno, and she just said, we're talking about affordability or whatever it was, and she said, well, I'm, I've decided I'm stealing …”
Steve Hilton Apr 29, 2026 ▶ 21:27 CA Governor Candidate Steve Hilton on Why California is Destroying Itself & How a Republican Can Win
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Hilton: California's proposed billionaire tax would destroy Silicon Valley's tech ecosystem
“If the billionaire tax proposal goes through, I mean, that absolutely puts You know, I think that's just a complete disaster for the tech ecosystem and what we've built in Silicon Valley over the years and all the job creation and wealth creation that comes wi…”
Steve Hilton Apr 29, 2026 ▶ 26:16 CA Governor Candidate Steve Hilton on Why California is Destroying Itself & How a Republican Can Win
Assertion Contradicted
Hilton: Building housing in California costs 2-3x more than neighboring states
“The same exact floor plan, house, apartment building, industrial building, whatever it is, costs two or three times more to build. In other, in, in California than in neighboring states.”
Steve Hilton Apr 29, 2026 ▶ 29:52 CA Governor Candidate Steve Hilton on Why California is Destroying Itself & How a Republican Can Win
Assertion Contradicted
Hilton: 70% of CEQA lawsuits are used to block housing
“70% of CEQA lawsuits are used to block housing.”
Steve Hilton Apr 29, 2026 ▶ 31:43 CA Governor Candidate Steve Hilton on Why California is Destroying Itself & How a Republican Can Win
Assertion Partly supported
Hilton: Iraq is California's top provider of imported oil
“Our number one provider is Iraq right now. That's the number one source of oil.”
Steve Hilton Apr 29, 2026 ▶ 39:23 CA Governor Candidate Steve Hilton on Why California is Destroying Itself & How a Republican Can Win
Assertion Partly supported
Hilton: California spends $27K per student while most fail basic standards
“We spend nearly the most of any state per student right now in this year. It's about 27,000, just, it's more than, just over 27,000 per student per year. In California, if you take the average out of the money, and we get some of the worst results in the count…”
Steve Hilton Apr 29, 2026 ▶ 45:45 CA Governor Candidate Steve Hilton on Why California is Destroying Itself & How a Republican Can Win
Disclosure
Hilton commits to reversing California's prison closure program if elected
“So a simple thing we can do that is completely within the governor's control is stop and reverse the prison closure program, which is what I've committed to doing.”
Steve Hilton Apr 29, 2026 ▶ 54:49 CA Governor Candidate Steve Hilton on Why California is Destroying Itself & How a Republican Can Win
Opinion
Hilton compares current California conditions to 1970s United Kingdom
“There are so many things I see in California today that are exactly like the UK in the seventies. You've got the massive dominance of the unions in policymaking. You've got a slurotic economy. You've got massively high taxation.”
Steve Hilton Apr 29, 2026 ▶ 7:19 CA Governor Candidate Steve Hilton on Why California is Destroying Itself & How a Republican Can Win
Assertion Partly supported
Hilton: California oil refineries dropped from about 40 to seven
“We had a really strong energy industry and infrastructure in California where we produced most of the oil and gas that we use, and we had refineries, about 40 of them around the state, mostly in the Bay Area, down in LA, that refined and turned it into product…”
Steve Hilton Apr 29, 2026 ▶ 39:59 CA Governor Candidate Steve Hilton on Why California is Destroying Itself & How a Republican Can Win
Assertion Partly supported
Hilton: EV penetration in California is only about 4% to 5%
“If you look at EVs, I mean, EV penetration, even with all the subsidies and so on, it's incredibly low in California. So you can't point, it's about four or five percent, something like that.”
Steve Hilton Apr 29, 2026 ▶ 44:34 CA Governor Candidate Steve Hilton on Why California is Destroying Itself & How a Republican Can Win
Assertion Partly supported
Hilton: Mississippi beats CA school results at one-third per-student spend
“A lot of attention now on Mississippi, rightly so, because for one third of their spend per student than California, their results are spectacularly better.”
Steve Hilton Apr 29, 2026 ▶ 48:12 CA Governor Candidate Steve Hilton on Why California is Destroying Itself & How a Republican Can Win
Assertion Partly supported
Hilton: Phonics is barely used in California public schools
“Which is, there's a technique called phonics. It's a way to teach kids to read, and it's totally clearly established as the most effective. It's barely used in California schools at all. It's like in a very small proportion of schools, of public schools.”
Steve Hilton Apr 29, 2026 ▶ 48:40 CA Governor Candidate Steve Hilton on Why California is Destroying Itself & How a Republican Can Win
Assertion Contradicted
Hilton: Over 80% of unhoused Californians suffer from addiction or mental illness
“Over 80% of people who are homeless have drug or alcohol problems, addiction, or severe mental health problems.”
Steve Hilton Apr 29, 2026 ▶ 58:46 CA Governor Candidate Steve Hilton on Why California is Destroying Itself & How a Republican Can Win
Assertion Supported
Hilton: Gavin Newsom vetoed legislation directing homelessness funding to sober shelters
“Last year, even the, going back to our point about the legislature, even the Democrat legislature passed a bill called the Sober Housing Act, which would have taken a certain proportion of homelessness spending and allocated it to a shelter where you had a req…”
Steve Hilton Apr 29, 2026 ▶ 59:08 CA Governor Candidate Steve Hilton on Why California is Destroying Itself & How a Republican Can Win
Disclosure
Steve Hilton states he renounced his United Kingdom citizenship
“I actually renounced my UK citizenship.”
Steve Hilton Apr 29, 2026 ▶ 8:14 CA Governor Candidate Steve Hilton on Why California is Destroying Itself & How a Republican Can Win
Assertion Partly supported
Hilton: California has top gas prices, housing costs, and second-highest electric bills
“We have the highest gas prices in the country, as you know, the highest electric bills everywhere except for Hawaii housing costs the highest in the country”
Steve Hilton Apr 29, 2026 ▶ 10:20 CA Governor Candidate Steve Hilton on Why California is Destroying Itself & How a Republican Can Win
Assertion Supported
Hilton: Chief Executive magazine ranked California last in business climate for 10 years
“Chief executive magazine ranks us and has done for the last 10 years or so the 50th out of 50 for business climate.”
Steve Hilton Apr 29, 2026 ▶ 12:04 CA Governor Candidate Steve Hilton on Why California is Destroying Itself & How a Republican Can Win

Show 3statements(3 left)

The other half of the tape: Steve Hilton's own voice is left out of every number here. Other people bring the name up 6 times in 4 episodes on All-In. 1 statement on the record names them. every mention, with the transcript →

Who brings them up most Chamath Palihapitiya 2Adam Carolla 2Jason Calacanis 1David Sacks 1

Statements about Steve Hilton, by other people (1)

Assertion Not checkable as stated
Chamath: Steve Hilton could declare a state of emergency on day one
“And if that happens, there is one thing that Steve Hilton can do to start to completely change the way that this state is run, which is instantly on day one, declare a state of emergency.”
Chamath Palihapitiya Jun 13, 2026 ▶ 1:27:34 Anthropic's Fable Backlash, Nationalizing AI, Inflation Heats Up & California’s Broken Elections

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Appearances (1)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
CA Governor Candidate Steve Hilton on Why California is Destroying Itself & How a Republic Apr 29, 2026 49m
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