Hilton posted on X on Monday that he was “deeply honored” to receive the Republican president’s endorsement. <\/p>\n
But Trump’s backing could become a hindrance if Hilton faces a Democrat in November’s election in the liberal-leaning state.<\/p>\n
Hilton, who now lives in California, previously served as a top aide to Cameron from 2010\u201312, but later grew critical of the Conservative prime minister’s immigration policy.<\/p>\n
Hilton went on to host a Fox News show for several years, and continues to contribute to the conservative news network. <\/p>\n
He is running for governor on a platform of lower taxes and cutting back the state budget, while helping lower housing and other costs for families.<\/p>\n
Hilton joined Stanford University in California as a visiting scholar in 2012, and said he was applying for US citizenship in 2019.<\/p>\n
Democrats dominate California state politics, but Republicans viewed this as a rare chance to capture the governor’s mansion because of a splintered Democratic field of candidates in the state’s so-called jungle primary system.<\/p>\n
Trump’s endorsement of Hilton, however, may squeeze out the other Republican in the race, Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco, leaving the door ajar for a Democrat to become a top vote-winner.<\/p>\n
A March poll by the University of California, Berkeley’s Institute of Governmental Studies rattled the political establishment, after it suggested Hilton and Bianco were ahead of the Democratic contenders.<\/p>\n
Democrats became alarmed enough that top state party officials called for some candidates to drop out.<\/p>\n
The University of California, Berkeley poll suggested that congressman Eric Swalwell, former congresswoman Katie Porter, and billionaire climate activist Tom Steyer had the most support among the eight Democrats running.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hilton posted on X on Monday that he was “deeply honored” to receive the Republican president’s endorsement. But…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":876514,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[13,12,14],"class_list":{"0":"post-876513","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-stories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116359633817889433","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/876513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=876513"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/876513\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/876514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=876513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=876513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=876513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}