GOP California Governor Debate – Featuring Chad Bianco and Steve Hilton
Ambassador Richard Grenell as the evenings Moderator
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Speakers
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Steve HiltonFox News ContributorSteve Hilton is the host of FOX News Channel’s (FNC) The Next Revolution with Steve Hilton (Sundays at 9PM/ET). He joined the network as a contributor in December 2016 and offers political and tech expertise across FNC and FOX Business Network’s (FBN) programs.
As the host of The Next Revolution (TNR), Hilton analyzes the impact of the populist movement, both in the United States and throughout the world. The program originates out of FNC’s Los Angeles bureau, where he is joined by a panel of three experts each week. Additionally, Hilton features a segment called “SwampWatch”, which provides opinion and analysis about the agencies, industries, and political groups that are affecting President Trump’s pledge to “drain the swamp.”
In addition to his role at FNC, Hilton is the co-founder of Crowdpac, an independent and non-partisan Silicon Valley political and data start-up. The organization assists citizens in finding and supporting candidates whose ideologies match up with theirs. He also teaches at Stanford University’s Institute of Design (d.school) and is the author of the UK Sunday Times bestseller More Human: Designing a World Where People Come First.
Previously, Hilton served as a senior adviser to former United Kingdom Prime Minister David Cameron and, prior to the 2010 general election, was Prime Minister Cameron’s head of strategy. Before his work in politics, Steve co-founded Good Business, a consulting firm and the award-winning London Restaurant, The Good Cook.
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Chad BiancoRiverside County Sheriff, CaliforniaChad Bianco is an American law enforcement officer, who has served as sheriff of Riverside County, California, since 2019. A member of the Republican Party, Bianco has been affiliated with the Constitutional Sheriffs and Peace Officers Association and Oath Keepers. He is a candidate for governor of California in the 2026 election.
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Richard GrenellAmbassadorRichard Allen Grenell is an American diplomat, public official, and former public relations consultant who has served as the special presidential envoy for special missions since 2025. Grenell additionally served as the acting director of the Kennedy Center from February 2025 to March 2026.
A member of the Republican Party, he served as acting director of national intelligence (DNI) in 2020 under President Donald Trump, for which he is often cited as the first openly gay acting Cabinet-level official in U.S. history. He previously served as the United States ambassador to Germany from 2018 to 2020, and as the special presidential envoy for Serbia and Kosovo peace negotiations from 2019 to 2021.
Grenell was a U.S. State Department spokesperson to the United Nations during the George W. Bush administration. Following his State Department tenure, he formed Capitol Media Partners, a political consultancy; he also was a Fox News contributor. Grenell was a foreign policy spokesperson for Mitt Romney during his 2012 presidential campaign.
In September 2017, Trump nominated Grenell as the U.S. ambassador to Germany. On April 26, 2018, he was confirmed by the U.S. Senate by a vote of 56 to 42. Grenell presented his credentials to the president of Germany, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, on May 8, 2018.
