Politico reports:

Former Fox News host Steve Hilton announced on Monday he will run for California governor, seeking to become the state’s first Republican chief executive since Arnold Schwarzenegger, his campaign confirmed to POLITICO on Monday. Hilton, who also served as an adviser to British Prime Minister David Cameron, had long been considering a run and recently released a book criticizing what he sees as the failings of California’s Democratic leadership and offering policy prescriptions.

The Republican invoked former Vice President Kamala Harris — who is considering a run for governor — in his launch video. “It’s time to end the years of Democrat failure,” Hilton says over an image of Harris. “Let’s make California an inspiration, again, the very best of America,” Hilton said. “There’s only one way to do that. We’ve got to end the one-party rule that got us into this mess.”

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Hilton, a COVID “truther,” appeared here in March 2020when he and fellow Fox host Jason Chaffetz claimed that hospitals were inflating the number of COVID deaths.

He currently hosts an independent podcast with a relatively meager following. He still appears regularly on Fox News and Fox Business.

Hilton became a US citizen in 2021.