Tom Steyer Surges to Second Place in the California Governor's Race

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Well, we have a brand new pull out in the race for governor here in the state of California.

And oh boy, is this poll going to shake things up?

Steve Hilton, the Republican former commentator on Fox News came in first at 20%.

But edgy is way in the second place is the man who commissioned the poll.

Tom Steyer at 16% want a coincidence.

Winning the bronze Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco at 15%

and then you have Katie Porter at 13% in fourth.

You're out of my **** shop.

And Congressman Eric Swalwell has fallen all the way to fifth place at 11%

and then you have the rest of them.

You have Tony V at 5%.

He's going to be on the show by the way a week from today.

Matt Mayhann at 3%.

Actually, now Viergosa is at 2%.

It's Basera who's at 5% Mayhann at 3.

Viergosa to everyone else below Viergosa.

Now if Tom Steyer is able to make it into the final two,

that certainly would be bad for homeowners in California.

As he is actively campaigning on the idea of eliminating Prop 13,

but it would be a very good day for the unions

because they would be able to gobble up all of that tax money

and give it to their members.

And that's also going to be a very good day for consultants

because Tom Steyer is spending just an ungodly amount of money to run for governor.

And if this poll is accurate, it's working because

he had been polling in the single digits

and now if he's polling in second place,

that's good enough to get on the November ballot of that holds.

You know, I didn't use to think that the average California voter

was dumb enough to fall for those ads,

but let's check in with the average California voter.

No, I don't know enough to give you any good information,

but good luck finding someone who does.

Did you see his back to the future ad that he played during the Super Bowl?

Oh boy.

It's bad.

And he spent a fortune on it too.

For more on Tom Steyer,

here is an interview with Tom Steyer.

It's the final one in ABC 10 series of interviews

of the candidates at the California Democrat Convention.

Let's hear what Tom Steyer has to say.

Well, this June, Californians will head to the polls to help decide

who could become the state's next governor.

While the final decision comes in November for now,

eight leading Democratic hopefuls and several Republicans are in the race.

Help you get to know them and what they say they bring to the job.

I sat down with the candidates at last month's Democratic Convention.

I will also do the same with the Republican party and to keep things fair.

Of course, I drew names at random for these interviews.

Meet Tom Steyer and Tom got drawn last.

And just to be clear, when you hear his voice,

this is in fact Tom Steyer and not the late Super Dave Osborne for people

that are meeting you for the first time.

Why are you deciding?

They're meeting him for the first time.

That means they don't own a television.

For people that are meeting you for the first time,

why are you deciding to run for governor of California?

Well, I'm running for governor because Californians can't afford to live in California anymore.

The cost of living is at a place led by housing costs,

but going to multiple parts.

Okay.

So he thinks that it's expensive to live here because the cost of housing is high.

Yet he wants to get rid of Prop 13.

What do you think will happen to the cost of living

if you get rid of Prop 13 and Jack property taxes up?

Now what he's actually advocating for

is what the unions have pushed for many years called the split role

where Prop 13 would stay in place for homeowners

but for commercial properties,

it would be taxed at market rate,

which would drive a whole lot of businesses out of the state of California.

But you talk to anyone who advocates for that.

They've been advocating for this since I was in high school.

They will tell you that's the first step to getting rid of it

that you have to do a split role

and then you get rid of it for homeowners next.

Yep.

Well, I'm running for governor because Californians can't afford to live in California anymore.

The cost of living is at a place led by housing costs

but going to multiple parts of people's budgets

where people literally are leaving the state

and are literally can't pay the bills.

And that is a huge government failure.

And I think it's critical that the government address it

and the governor nor addresses it with urgency.

Now if you-

Governor nor.

What a way to pronounce it.

Such a weird guy.

Now if you-

I don't think there are any normal people

that make as much money as him.

No, and let's just be honest, if you're a billionaire,

no one ever says no to you.

No one ever says, you know, I don't think that's a good idea.

Why don't you put that one on ice?

Why don't you think that went through?

People have to be nice to you because of your money.

It's why all of us play the lottery.

Nobody plays the lottery because you want to sit there

and drink corona is on a desert island.

Maybe that would be fun for a day or two

but you get bored of that.

The reason we all buy powerball tickets

is because if we win, we can act like monsters

to everyone around us

and they have to put up with it because we're rich.

John, I think you need to go to a meeting.

Now if you were to be elected,

what would be your top three priorities

your first year in office?

The number one issue about affordability is housing

because it's the biggest bill that everybody faces.

It's up to 50% of your pay.

So how many houses do you think he could have bought

four Californians with the money he spent on ads

in the last three months?

Oh, you could have rebuilt the palisades.

So the first thing we're going to have to address

is housing.

One thing we can do in the short run

is put in rent control and I would do it.

Oh, because that's totally worked in Los Angeles.

That's what we need, more squalor.

What have we seen with all of the eviction protections,

eviction moratoriums and rent stabilization,

rent control practices in Los Angeles?

More and more mom and pop landlords selling to private equity

and that is totally lowered the cost of rent.

Everyone thinks that landlords are Donald Sterling.

When reality, they're more likely to be Fred and Ethel Mertz.

So the first thing we're going to have to address

is housing.

One thing we can do in the short run

is put in rent control and I would do it.

The second thing that I think is critical is,

look, we are electricity costs are a critical element

of family costs.

Californians pay twice as much for electricity

as other people around the United States.

That's unacceptable.

I've talked about the need to have a different oversight

at the Public Utilities Commission.

You mean we shouldn't appoint former members of PG&E

to the CPUC?

Oh, can you imagine what his appointees would look like?

And I've also talked about the idea of local competence.

By the way, a lot of the climate policies

that he has spent money on and advocated for

for such a long time have led to some of these regulations

that are making electricity so expensive in the state.

But that's also his own personal French laundry.

He's an invite roe sugar daddy now,

worry funds all of these nuts.

However, didn't he make his money on oil and tobacco?

Yes.

And I've also talked about the idea of local competition

for the electric monopolies.

You know, with all the money that he has

and then he has spent on this race and running for president

a few years ago and all the need to impeach ads,

he probably could have just bought PG&E

and broken it up that way and have money left over.

And I've also talked about the idea of local competition

for the electric monopolies that are actually providing

that electricity.

And the third thing that I'm not going to find opposition

for me if you want to break up PG&E and so Cal Edison.

Although notably Gavin has said,

we can't do that because then it would be our problem.

Well, which leads to the question,

what would you replace it with?

If you would replace it with something better,

I'd be down to.

But if you're going to replace it with something worse

then be careful what you wish for.

And the third thing that I would do

that I think is very different from what

everyone else has talked about,

call a special election to close a corporate real estate tax loophole.

This is the prop 13 thing that he is the only candidate talking about.

And what world do you consider prop 13 a quote-unquote

corporate tax loophole?

It was something that was literally on the ballot

and Californians got to vote on it in what was it?

The 1970s, 1978.

Howard Jarvis traveled around the state

and made the argument in favor of prop 13

and the people of California voted for it

and it's been popular ever since.

Call a special election

to close a corporate real estate tax loophole.

It's been on the books since 1978

Boy is he gravely?

I didn't think anyone could be gravely or then Gavin Newsom.

Steyer is gravely and more grading.

Where is he from?

Tom Steyer?

Okay, looks like he was born in 57,

so he's 68 years old in New York City.

He was educated at Yale with a BA

and Stanford with an MBA.

Okay, so he's from New York.

So he probably doesn't even know the history of Proposition 13

and he wants to come into the state of California and wreck it.

You know, Tom Steyer is proof positive

that money can't buy you friends.

Or class.

It's been on the books since 1978

that Donald Trump himself benefits from.

By our estimate, we'll bring in $22 million a year.

What? That's not much money at all.

$22 million a year.

To have a special election costs $300 million.

So unless he mistakenly meant to say billion,

which still is a small portion of the massive budget

that California has, the math ain't mathin'.

Well, I don't even know what he meant there,

but let's just say that he gets it.

There are businesses that are here

that could easily relocate someplace else.

The moment you do something like this, those businesses are gone.

And when those businesses go, guess what goes with them?

The jobs that they create.

By our estimate, we'll bring in $22 million a year

to local governments for education and health care.

This is a novel move. I'm running on raising taxes.

Well, it's just like everything else it goes on with the environmentalists.

Everything would be perfect here if it weren't for the people.

So if we can just kick the people out,

the state of California would be a great place.

So let's go for the businesses,

and then let's go for the homeowners.

And once we kick them all out,

then we can all be like Darrell Hannah and live in trees.

California has spent billions of dollars trying to fix the homelessness crisis,

but yet you can see the problem really persists throughout the state.

What would you do differently as governor?

So we have a homeless plan,

which involves getting people into permanent housing.

Which take-

Never heard that one before.

Oh, tell us more.

Which takes on average seven years

and costs $750,000 a key.

It's actually up to $850.

But who's counting?

If you just take a step back and ask yourselves,

can that possibly work the answer is no?

So one of the things I'm absolutely determined to do

is to use emergency interim housing.

Get people off the street.

They don't have to be clean.

They can bring their dog.

There's-

Can we give them a shower first?

Hose them down, maybe.

Oh, he means clean in the sense that we need to put people in shelter

without getting them off of drugs, because that works.

Oh, yeah. Well, Barbara Ferrer will provide the paraphernalia.

So we have another housing first harm reductionist here.

Yeah.

They don't-

Unless he did mean shower.

I think Barbara Ferreris is spirit animal.

Oh, thank you.

They don't have to be clean.

They can bring their dog.

There's, you know-

Yes, bring the dog that you're actively abusing into the shelter.

Please, while you do your math.

Sounds like a great idea.

You know, mutual, you know, group dining, group laundry, and they're safe.

Do you believe that California has gone too far,

not far enough, or has struck the right balance on criminal justice reform?

About 70% of Californians voted for Prop 36, and Prop 36 was basically a couple of things.

But one of the things it was huge about was treatment instead of incarceration for nonviolent criminals.

But it meant-

Oh, he's using the term nonviolent. That's not a good sign.

Oh, yeah. No. This guy is awful.

He's giving lip service to Prop 36, but he doesn't even understand what Prop 36 is about,

or he's not being honest about it.

Treatment instead of incarceration for nonviolent criminals.

No, it's treatment-mandated felonies for repeat drug offenses,

but it is prison time for repeat retail thieves.

But it meant that actually the goal was going to be to rehabilitate,

to prepare you for society.

And that's the kind of thing I actually believe for nonviolent criminals.

Well, the state has not funded it.

Absolutely, we need to incarcerate violent people who are going to be a danger to people in their communities.

Really? Because Gavin's letting them out.

No, what he believes is let everyone out.

I am so rich, I'm able to afford security guards and gates,

and it won't impact my life.

The rest of you can deal with it, so I appear to be compassionate.

But for people who aren't violent criminals, rehabilitating them, treating them is a much more successful and effective way.

To deal with crime.

And that is our last candidate profile for the Democrats.

If you missed any of these profiles,

give you a closer look at the top Democrats in the race.

You can stream them all right now on our ABC10 app.

You can even stream the woman he incaled around before he dropped out.

You know, Randy, for a guy obsessed with climate change,

all Tom Steyer ever does is spew out hot air and light his money on fire.

And he's the first place Democrat, according to that poll.

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Let's go to Dan in Sonoma. Dan, welcome.

John, Randy, I want to get your feedback on something here.

You've been profiling for the last couple weeks.

Currently, you never mind this poll that Styrus put forward,

but Steve Hill and then Chad Bianco are one and two.

And there's a reason for that because of what's going on with Newsom

and the state.

But if this solidifies,

and that happens after the primaries,

and then we have two Republicans at the top,

thanks to Prop 14,

do you see the Democrats are sitting on their hands

and doing nothing?

I don't.

I think they'll engage in lawsuits.

Question Prop 14 itself,

which should have been done a long time ago,

and they'd even go to the trouble of putting someone on the ballot,

no matter how illegal it is,

keep in mind these are Democrats.

What do you see them doing if that comes to pass?

Yeah, I think the party of democracy

would either impeach them immediately after getting elected

and repeal that proposition that created the top two primary system,

or they would try to sue to put a right in candidate on the ballot,

which you can't do.

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reacting to Tom Steyer's position

that we should take all the homeless,

even if they're not clean and shove them into shelters,

when they aren't clean,

when you put them in housing, they burn it down.

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Well, as we told you before,

earlier in the week,

the chairman of the California Democratic Party

urged low performing Democratic candidates for governor

to drop out of the race.

He said if they don't do that,

two Republicans could end up on the November ballot,

and the Democrats could be shut out of that contest

in what is now a deep blue state.

And so far, Randy, he only has one taker.

Ian Calderon, who was pulling it around 0%,

the former member of the assembly,

he announced that he has dropped out,

and he is endorsing,

and I guess now becoming a part of Eric Swalwell's campaign,

he talked to Ashley Zavala about why.

Here is KCRA 3.

The crowded field of Democrats running for governor

is sitting slightly former Democratic Assembly Majority Leader,

Ian Calderon.

Just dropped out,

it is a crowded field.

In this week, the head of the California Democratic Party

chairman asked candidates without a viable path

to end their campaign.

KCRA 3 is political director.

Zavala spoke with him today, what do you say?

Yeah, he was very, I mean, calm,

seemed like this was a balanced decision for him,

even though he was one of those...

Was there ever a point where Ian Calderon

thought he actually had a chance?

Okay, think about this for a second.

If you're a member of Congress in California,

you represent less than 2% of the overall state population

because we have more than 50 seats in California.

We're going to lose some,

but as of now, that's what we have.

If you are a member of the California Assembly,

you're one of 80,

which means you represent less than that.

If you represent a literal asterisk,

that is the population of people

who've seen your name on a ballot,

and you're not famous,

or you haven't become famous for campaigning

for a popular issue or a ballot initiative

or something,

we can't associate you with some popular public policy,

nobody knows who you are.

And to the extent that anyone knows the Calderon name,

because his family has been involved in politics

for a very long time,

it's because of the trials of his uncles

who went to prison.

So, what business did he have,

running for governor,

when you can't raise the money,

no one knows who you are,

and you're not associated with any popular ideas.

How did he expect to break out of that pack?

Well, see, his whole idea was,

hey, I'm the young guy in the race,

he's only 40 years old,

but here's the problem,

that doesn't resonate because young people don't vote.

Right, and you know what I think he was doing here?

I think this is like starting a tech startup company

where the entire goal is to get gobbled up

by one of the bigger players.

I think he intended on running for governor

so that he could drop out of the race

and get behind someone who eventually wins,

and then that person owes him something.

Seemed like this was a balanced decision for him,

even though he was one of those lower polling candidates

Ian Calderon told me he felt really strongly about his campaign.

He says many factors went into this decision,

including timing, money, and family.

But so far, he's the only one to drop out,

the field is still wide,

which was on display here in Sacramento today.

Several of the candidates were on stage at the California.

By the way, you know what he did when he got married?

I just remembered this now, what's that?

He was a sitting member of the assembly,

and he invited people who he worked with,

people who worked for his office in the legislature,

people who work in politics,

I assume in various capacities,

and he told them not to bring gifts,

but just to give cash.

Oh no.

Now think about that.

It's one thing, I guess,

if you're 18 years old and you have no money,

and you need cash so you can buy a couch and buy a TV

and put money down on an apartment or something,

but he was an established person when he got married.

He was an adult,

and he was an elected official,

and then he asked people to bring him cash as a gift.

What happens if you work for him

and you showed up to that wedding without cash,

or if you need something from him in politics

and you show up without cash?

Ethically, I don't even know how you're allowed to do that.

He'll always remember who brought the toaster,

and the salad shooter.

Several of the candidates were on stage

at the California Realtors Forum.

Calderon dropped out hours before this event

started this morning.

The two candidates...

I don't think he was invited to that event, probably.

Calderon dropped out hours before this event.

Also, Bianca wasn't there,

but sometimes he just doesn't show up to things.

Yeah, we're familiar with that, too.

Calderon dropped out hours before this event

started this morning.

The two candidates who get the most votes

in the primary election in June

move onto the general election in November

regardless of political party here in California.

This state is one of a few that has...

I feel like just this little scare this month

has already people in the assembly

figuring out how can we change this law?

Oh, 100%.

100%.

If two Republicans end up on the November ballot,

I promise you, the first order of business

for the Democratic Party is going to be to get rid of it.

And they don't like it to begin with.

In practice,

I think that they were open to it when it first started

because it allowed them to expand the map

and they ended up winning more seats than they used to have.

So from that point of view, they liked it.

But it cost them a fortune

because if you have a safe Democratic seat

and there's a Democratic candidate

that the establishment wants,

running against someone else,

you have to spend a ton of money

to make sure your preferred candidate wins the seat.

In the old days, if you have a safe Democratic seat

and the primaries over,

you don't have to worry about that.

You just move on to other things

and you can raise and spend money

in places where it makes more sense for you.

Now they have to spend it on safe seats.

Well, we all remember what happened

in the California Senate race in 2024.

It's probably the most famous example of this

where Adam Schiff spent a whole bunch of money

to elevate Steve Garvey to get him into that top two.

I call it the Schiff gift.

And then what happened?

He didn't have to spend a dime after that.

And for some reason, Steve Garvey also stopped campaigning.

Yeah, they both just stopped doing anything.

This state is one of a few

that has this kind of system known as top two.

With so many Democratic candidates in the race still,

some are concerned there's a chance California voters

would end up picking between two Republicans for governor

when we spoke, Calderon didn't explicitly say

the party chairman's letter drove him to drop out of the race.

By the way, if that actually happens,

which is still unlikely, but it's not impossible,

how do the two candidates try to appeal to the other side?

Because now you're going to be grabbing votes

from the left I would assume.

Oh yeah, at that point,

that's when they really run to the center

and they try to appeal to Democrats and Independents,

people who didn't vote for them in the primary.

When we spoke, Calderon didn't explicitly say

the party chairman's letter drove him to drop out of the race.

Here's part of our conversation.

What people don't understand or realize

is that within the last couple of days,

I had gotten some calls from groups that, you know,

have they get to make a decision

and were really interested in me

and really interested in my candidacy.

Name the groups.

I love how they always throw out claims like that,

without saying.

And I got a call from this union.

And I got a call from that union.

And they said that they were prepared to endorse me.

And that's when I decided that this was getting too real.

You know, have they get to make a decision

and were really interested in me

and really interested in my candidacy?

Where are they?

Oh, they're in Canada.

Don't worry about it.

But you have to take a look at timing

and you have to take a look at how you're going to be able

to get that message across

to enough Californians in a crowded field

and where those votes are going to come from.

And so, you know, it is the filing deadline

it forces you to make a decision

and it forces you to be honest,

at least for me, about where I stand.

And nothing to do with the letter.

What's funny is,

at the moment that he dropped out of the race,

he clearly made the determination

that Swalwell had the best chance

of making it on the November ballot.

So that's who he got behind.

I wonder if he would have done the same thing

if he dropped out today

when this Tom Styrepole landed.

Oh, boy.

Don't make a deal with the devil, Ian.

About where I stood in the race

and I had to make the decision

that I felt was best.

And, you know, you never know

what's going to happen in the future.

In those calls that you took

over the last couple of days,

did any groups or anyone tell you to get out?

No, I saw a couple of people on social media

that were telling me the people

that were interested in me.

No, they didn't tell me to get out.

What are you talking about?

According to Lorraine Gonzales,

who runs the California Federation of Labor,

she is privately telling them to get out.

I believe she has publicly made that claim.

Well, she also has been very public

in how she hates the top two system.

Because it costs her specifically a fortune.

No, I saw a couple of people on social media

that were telling me to get out.

But no, I didn't have anybody

that was calling me telling me to get out.

Let's be completely honest here.

99.9% of Californians have never heard of Ian Calderon.

No, and I'm sure it helps their cause a little bit.

But they don't need the Ian Calderons

of the world out of the race.

They need people with 3 to 5%

because that could be enough

to put at least one Democrat on the November ballot.

Less than 1% won't get you there.

Telling me to get out.

The possible chance of two Republicans

in November did that play a role

in your decision making?

I mean, look, I think it's important

to take it into consideration

and to not just dismiss it.

I have never personally felt

like that was going to be a very likely outcome.

I still don't believe that it is a very likely outcome.

So I understand a little Vera Ghost

that go in there for a second.

A little bit.

So by the way, top two candidates

making it to the November ballot

being Republicans or not,

it wasn't going to happen for Ian Calderon this cycle.

So I understand campaigns.

I understand politics.

I come at it from a different perspective.

I understand how these things tend

to play out at the end.

So certainly important to consider

but I was never really concerned

that we were going to put two Republicans.

A couple of other takeaways from our conversation first.

Calderon said he plans to endorse

one of the Democrats that are doing well

in the polls right now.

That's Congressman Eric Swalwell.

And it was really weird.

So there was this forum between

a whole bunch of candidates for governor

in front of the California Real Estate Association.

Swalwell was the only one not there in person.

He was on Zoom.

And on his closing statement,

he announces that Ian Calderon has endorsed me.

Nobody had any reaction

because nobody knows who that is.

You noticed by the way,

he didn't say,

and I'm going to endorse the candidate

who I think would do the best job for California.

He said I would endorse the candidate

who's doing the best in the polls.

He also thinks California leaders

need to seriously reassess

this top two primary system.

Yep.

I wonder if that'll make the agenda next year.

All right, existing laws

that the legislature needs to throw out.

Elder parole and top two primary.

The deadline for candidates to file

to run for governor is tomorrow.

Most of those other lower polling candidates

filed their paperwork earlier this week.

Okay, so since Calderon has dropped out,

what are the chances now

to Republicans being on the ballot in November?

Yeah, we talked about this modeling tool

that elections expert Paul Mitchell.

I'm telling you,

the real winner of this primary is Paul Mitchell.

His name gets mentioned in every newscast.

Oh, he's going to make more money off of that model

than he does off the conditioner.

Yeah, we talked about this modeling tool

that elections expert Paul Mitchell has.

Last night, the numbers were showing

that the possibility of this was between 27 and 28%.

But as of about 10 minutes ago,

it looked like that number was at about 26%.

So we keep tracking it.

It changes.

It depends on money, polling, et cetera.

But yeah, still, I mean, really,

the takeaway is,

is that Calderon getting out of this race

didn't really make a dent in those chances.

Oh, that's so sad.

That's interesting.

All right.

Thank you, Ashley.

There you go.

In Calderon, you didn't know he was running

and you didn't know he dropped out.

But he was a part of this race.

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we're going to have former Los Angeles Mayor

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Hopefully you didn't just curse yourself.

Well, usually when I tease ahead, I do.

It has happened in the past.

That's when someone's in a place

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their flight gets delayed, whatever.

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He's on the books for next Friday.

No, P9.

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We're in talks with them.

We're hoping to get him on sometime soon.

But it's just one of these back and forth

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We reached out to Matt Mayhan,

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who's running for governor,

trying to get him on the show.

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that works for them.

They say they're interested,

but we can't get him on the calendar.

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We'd love to include them in on the conversation,

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Have we reached out to Katie Porter?

Wait, please.

Well, I don't know if we send carrier pigeons or what?

Maybe we put a note on the minivan?

Oh!

Or I have a feeling it's one of these minivans

that hasn't been to the car wash in a while.

So if you just want to write on the windshield

in the dirt with your finger,

you probably can do that.

Okay, five, six.