Becerra, Hilton offer promises on AI, gas prices, healthcare and starkly contrasting views
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Set us as preferred Sacramento — The two candidates for California governor came to Sacramento on Tuesday offering policy agendas that were both sweeping and vague on details, with both warning of the dangers posed by their rival’s political party.Democrat Xavier Becerra vowed to lower healthcare costs for Californians and teased two new policies on energy and artificial intelligence.Republican Steve Hilton pledged to slash gas prices and utility bills to help remedy his dystopian view of California under Democratic rule.
The two candidates will face off in the Nov.3 election to succeed outgoing Gov.
Gavin Newsom, and took time to deliver their campaign messages at an afternoon political forum in the state capital.Hilton pointed to the size of the state budget, the homelessness crisis, high taxes, the cost of living, the unemployment rate and the business climate to argue that 15 years of Democratic control has proved disastrous in California.“It’s just a complete failure on every front, and it seems to have been immune to any kind of challenge because it’s very powerful.
The machine is very powerful, funded by government unions, and you’ve got this alliance of the government unions and nonprofits, and the Chamber of Commerce, and all of this,” he told hundreds of people at a convention center in Sacramento.Becerra defended California’s Democratic leadership, which controls the state Legislature, the governor’s office and every other statewide political office, as a staunch bulwark against the ruthless agenda of the Trump administration and Republican-led Congress.“We’re a state.We’re a family.
You don’t blame just one parent when things go awry with one of the children,” he said in reference to more than a decade of Democratic governance in California.“We’re all in this together.
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