California doesn’t always have to stay under the control of Democrats, Steve Hilton, a GOP gubernatorial candidate, told Newsmax, Sunday. 

“I think the thing that people have to imagine is the sense in California that after 15 long years of this one-party rule, there’s a sense that well, this is just the way it is, and it’s always going to be like this,” Hilton, a former adviser to British Prime Minister David Cameron, told Newsmax’s “Sunday Report.” “I’m here to say, No, it doesn’t have to be this way.”

California doesn’t have to be a state with the highest rate of poverty in the country, said Hilton. 

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