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L'ex consulente di David Cameron afferma che un voto a suo favore renderà la California 'Califordable' – ma non tutti sono convinti. Secondo gli amici, egli "sa come agitare le folle proprio come Trump" e si è fatto un nome nel Regno Unito con idee politiche bizzarre, tra cui rendere il paese più soleggiato utilizzando 'cloud busters' di proprietà statale. Ora il controverso stratega Steve Hilton, soprannominato il "Rasputin in miniatura" della politica conservatrice, è diventato un improbabile favorito nella corsa alle primarie per il governatore della California. Continua a leggere...

The race to succeed Gavin Newsom has teetered wildly, and with Democrats in disarray, the Republican ex-Downing Street adviser is leading in the polls. Can he really pull it off?Few political aspirations have proved more futile over the past two decades than running as a Republican for statewide office in California. Yet Steve Hilton – transplanted Brit, erstwhile business entrepreneur, a former Downing Street adviser to David Cameron and a former Fox News host who says he is friends with half of Donald Trump’s cabinet – is having a remarkably good time of it.With less than six weeks to go before a primary election that has proved to be both dramatic and wildly unpredictable, most polls put Hilton narrowly ahead of a fractured field of Democrats in the race to succeed Gavin Newsom as governor. It is an astonishing turn of events in a state where Democrats enjoy supermajorities in the state legislature and a two-to-one advantage over the Republicans in voter registration. Continue reading...