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LONDON — If Steve Hilton succeeds in making it past next week’s gubernatorial primary in California, it will mark a breakthrough by a relative unknown. In the U.K., he is anything but.
Hilton, a Republican who played a central role in former British Prime Minister David Cameron’s rise to power, is effectively tied with Democrat Xavier Becerra in the race to be California’s next governor, according to several polls over the last week.
Under California’s primary system, the candidates who finish in the top two will go forward to the gubernatorial election regardless of their political party.
Hilton now finds himself in with a real shot at entering the final runoff, despite never previously having held elected office on either side of the pond — and a political past which appears at odds with his embrace of MAGA Republicanism.
