Becerras muted gubernatorial campaign comes to life in home stretch

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Set us as preferred While Republican Steve Hilton has spent months jackrabbiting around California during his long-shot bid for governor, Democratic front runner Xavier Becerra just recently emerged from quasi hibernation and stepped into political daylight.Hilton has blasted Becerra as taking the state’s voters for granted, failing to hold public campaign events to explain his detailed plans to address California’s many ills.

Despite pledging to participate in multiple debates, Becerra brushed aside several invitations, agreeing to just a solitary one-hour face-off against Hilton on CNN in late September.That month, Hilton held 14 public events, a dozen more than Becerra, but the Democrat’s spokesperson said he appeared at multiple functions sponsored by other groups.

Hilton wasn’t buying it.“He is a useless nothing, a totally unaccomplished pipsqueak who is so smug, so arrogant, so entitled, that he somehow thinks he’s owed this job just because he was picked as a useful puppet by the Sacramento machine,” Hilton, a former Fox News commentator and British political strategist, said last week in West Sacramento.On Oct.

10, Becerra, a longtime member of Congress and Biden’s secretary of the U.S.Department of Health and Human Services, scoffed at his GOP rival.

California Democrat Xavier Becerra and Republican Steve Hilton are competing in the race for California governor.Here’s what you need to know about the candidates.“Uh, hello?” Becerra said sarcastically to reporters in Sacramento after being asked about his absence from the campaign trail.“That Steve Hilton doesn’t see me on Fox News is his problem, not mine.

I am gonna talk to voters,” Becerra said, rattling off a list of his recent campaign events.“I will talk to them until November the 3rd, and then I’ll be ready to talk to voters...