{"id":596069,"date":"2026-05-04T17:15:55","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T17:15:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/?p=596069"},"modified":"2026-05-04T17:15:55","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T17:15:55","slug":"ms-now-hosts-ambush-steve-hilton-with-just-one-gotcha-question-that-has-nothing-to-do-with-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/?p=596069","title":{"rendered":"MS NOW hosts ambush Steve Hilton with just one \u2018gotcha\u2019 question that has nothing to do with California"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Three MS NOW hosts tried to corner Republican gubernatorial candidate Steve Hilton with a classic leftist \u201cgotcha\u201d question.<\/p>\n

Democrats have created a litmus test for who they consider good Republicans in recent years, and it is based on whether they \u201ccorrectly\u201d answer their question about who won the 2020 presidential election. President Donald Trump and his allies maintain that something scummy happened during the election that resulted in former President Joe Biden\u2019s victory, so nearly every GOP candidate who wanders into a Democrat media stronghold is asked about it.<\/p>\n

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\u201cLet me ask you this, did\u00a0Joe Biden\u00a0win the election in 2020?\u201d The Weekend: Primetime<\/em>, co-host Ayman Mohyeldin asked the California gubernatorial hopeful.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m sorry?\u201d Hilton asked.<\/p>\n

\u201cDid Joe Biden win the election in 2020?\u201d he asked again.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve got to say, we\u2019ve got the state\u2013 the biggest state in America, with the highest poverty rate in the country. Over a third of Californians cannot afford to meet their basic needs, and the fact that in the little time we have together, instead of looking at how we can help struggling California families and businesses, you want to talk about a political argument from six years ago, I just think\u2013\u201d Hilton responded before co-host Catherine Rampell butted in.<\/p>\n

\u201cWell, why can\u2019t you answer the question though? I mean, we could talk about other things. I feel like you\u2019re filibustering a little bit. We\u2019re asking you a pretty basic question,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

\u201cBecause, as I pointed out, we don\u2019t have too much time together. I think the priority obviously has got to be what this election is about,\u201d he responded, trying to draw the focus back to his state election rather than past presidential elections.<\/p>\n

\u201cIs it yes or no?!\u201d yelled Rampell and co-host Elise Jordan. \u201cYes or no doesn\u2019t take a lot of time.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cNo, I don\u2019t want to indulge these ridiculous games about who won the election and so on,\u201d an exasperated Hilton said.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou just talked about the will of the people of California and you\u2019re the one that literally said, \u2018I support the express will of democracy, of people in democracy.\u2019 The reason why it\u2019s important, Steve, and if you don\u2019t see why, is that voters in California are being asked to trust your judgment, and the question that I have for you is, are you a person who believes in facts and evidence or are you a person who\u2019s willing to curry political favor with a president of the United States?\u201d Mohyeldin pointed out, trying to push him into answering the question.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn that case, the voters of California have a right to know that you\u2019re not willing to speak truth to power. I think that\u2019s a legitimate question for people in California to know as they go to the polls and have to decide whether you are the person who\u2019s going to represent them. So that\u2019s why I\u2019m asking, do you believe in facts and evidence, and do you believe Joe Biden won the election?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI do believe in facts and evidence, and I also believe that it\u2019s an insult to the intelligence of the voters that you want to make an important conversation about the future of this state about something that happened six years ago that\u2019s been well litigated endlessly,\u201d the candidate answered.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s about your judgment. It\u2019s not about what happened six years ago, it\u2019s about whether you can say facts and evidence and speak truth to power. It\u2019s about that today. It has nothing to do with the outcome of 2020. Joe Biden served four years as president. We in America know who won the presidency,\u201d Mohyeldin noted.<\/p>\n

\u201cExactly. Well, that\u2019s right,\u201d Hilton agreed.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou won\u2019t even say it! You\u2019re asking for voters to trust you, and you won\u2019t even say it!\u201d the host snapped.<\/p>\n

\u201cWell, of course I\u2019ll say it. I\u2019ve said it many times,\u201d Hilton said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe just spent five minutes asking you to say it, and you didn\u2019t say it!\u201d Mohyeldin whined.<\/p>\n

\u201cI have said it. I\u2019ve said it many times.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Three MS NOW hosts tried to corner Republican gubernatorial candidate Steve Hilton with a classic leftist \u201cgotcha\u201d question. Democrats have created a litmus test for who they consider good Republicans in recent years, and it is based on whether they \u201ccorrectly\u201d answer their question about who won the 2020 presidential election. President Donald Trump and… Continue reading MS NOW hosts ambush Steve Hilton with just one \u2018gotcha\u2019 question that has nothing to do with California<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":596070,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[17,22,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-596069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-border-security","category-immigration","category-immigration-reform","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596069","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=596069"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596069\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/596070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=596069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=596069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=596069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}