California Governor’s Debate - Full Broadcast
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Oil companies made $70 billion more because of President Donald Trump's war in Iran.
The majority of homeless people in California are working.
The California Supreme Court did not stop Chad Bianco's election fraud investigation.
Environmental regulations make building the same home in California three or four times as expensive as building it in neighboring states.
California environmental policies and protections prevented fire agencies from creating defensible space around homes, cities, and buildings.
President Donald Trump started a war in Iran.
California has the highest cost of living in the United States.
CalGEM has been closing down California oil production.
California has around 50% of the U.S. homeless population.
It is illegal to camp on the streets in California.
The only housing Tom Steyer has built has been private prisons and ICE detention centers.
Crime is going up in San Jose.
The City of San Jose has sued the Trump administration more than a dozen times.
Insurance companies told Governor Gavin Newsom for five consecutive years that they would leave California if he did not change environmental policies and protections.
California's FAIR Plan was designed for about 100,000 people.
California can reduce the risk of houses burning in catastrophic fires by 90%.
California can increase oil production through executive action without legislative approval.
Trust in local government in San Jose increased by 40%.
San Jose reduced unsheltered homelessness by nearly one third over the four years before the debate.
A California state audit found that California could not account for where $24 billion in homelessness spending went.
Only one in seven people who become homeless start with a serious mental health problem or substance abuse issue.
Permanent housing for homeless people costs between $750,000 and $1,000,000 per unit.
In San Jose, 80% of people offered interim housing have been willing to come indoors.
San Jose created a playbook that hundreds of other cities and counties use to restrict how technology is used.
County records from the registrar of voters did not match the output of votes counted in Chad Bianco's election fraud investigation.
Billionaires and corporations are spending tens of millions of dollars against Tom Steyer in the California governor's race.
The truck driver who put Marcus Coleman's daughter Delilah into a coma did not speak English.
California has the highest unemployment rate in America.
Off-site industrial construction drops construction costs per square foot by one-third.
Xavier Becerra balanced four budgets as U.S. secretary of health and human services.
An Inside California Politics poll found that 86% of respondents believe homelessness has stayed the same or gotten worse.
California has the worst roads in the United States.
The main place where California treats people with mental health problems is jail.
Chad Bianco has spent 33 years in law enforcement.
Corporations spent $540 million to lobby in Sacramento in 2024.
The staffer in Katie Porter's viral video continued working with Katie Porter for four years after the incident.
California's Department of Motor Vehicles was not enforcing rules around DUIs and drivers with DUI convictions.
Democrats have had one-party rule in California for sixteen years.
California has the highest poverty rate in America.
Katie Porter has never taken corporate money.
Homelessness is going up in San Jose.
San Jose approved about 20,000 housing units over roughly the last seven years.
About 20,000 approved housing units in San Jose were not getting built.
Home insurance companies have dropped Californians from their insurance policies without explanation.
Automatic license plate readers do not identify who is driving a car.
Social media causes significant mental health issues in young people.
California has about 10% of the U.S. population.
Impact fees can add up to 20% of the cost of a home.
Social media creates mental health issues for adults.
California gas tax revenue pays for public transportation.
President Donald Trump's war in Iran increased gasoline prices in California.
California has the highest gas tax in the United States.
San Jose moved thousands of homeless people indoors.
A California state audit found that California spent $24 billion on homelessness.
The nonprofit bank started by Tom Steyer and his wife has financed 17,000 low-income housing units.
62% of Californians disapprove of President Donald Trump's job performance.
The California Highway Patrol Academy does not train officers to administer English proficiency exams.
Donald Trump is kicking 1 million to 3 million people off Medi-Cal.
The median home price in California is $900,000.
Mississippi requires third-grade students who do not meet a reading test standard to repeat the grade.
California's original insurance regulatory framework required insurance rate changes to be approved within 60 days.
California insurance rate changes sometimes take more than a year to be approved.
Some people have had to wait more than a year for responses on insurance claims from January 2025 wildfires.
Children have died as a result of using social media.
Eric Swalwell departed the California governor's race.
California's gas tax is about 61 cents per gallon.
California gas tax revenue pays for road repairs.
Eighty two percent of Californians do not breathe clean air.
Tom Steyer made money in oil and gas.
California has the highest gasoline prices in the United States.
CalGEM is part of California's executive branch.
There are 187,000 people experiencing homelessness in California.
California spends tens of billions of dollars to try to get people off the streets.
Some approved housing projects in the Bay Area have cost $1 million per unit.
The California Supreme Court ordered Chad Bianco's election fraud investigation paused.
Tom Steyer and his wife paid $5.4 million in federal taxes in 2024.
Tom Steyer is the only billionaire on the ballot in the California governor's race.
The U.S. Department of Transportation withheld $40 million in funding from California over enforcement of English-language requirements for commercial truck drivers.
The U.S. Department of Transportation said California is the only state that refuses to ensure big-rig drivers can read road signs.
Racial profiling is illegal in California.
42% of San Jose residents are foreign born.
San Jose is the safest big city in the United States.
California does not have party primaries for governor.
San Jose is the third-largest city in California.
Xavier Becerra beat the Trump administration at the Supreme Court in a case involving the Affordable Care Act.
Xavier Becerra beat the Trump administration in a case involving preservation of the DACA program for Dreamers.
California has down payment assistance programs for renters who want to become homeowners.
California has about 40,000 shovel-ready housing units.
San Jose was rated the least affordable city for housing in the world.
Katie Porter served the state of California for three years under then-Attorney General Kamala Harris.
The budget of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services was larger than the budget of the state of California during Xavier Becerra's tenure as secretary.
Xavier Becerra won most of the lawsuits he filed as California attorney general.
Home insurers have charged some Californians twice as much for home insurance.
Less than half of California students read at grade level.
35% of California students are at grade level in math.
The City of San Jose has funded legal services for immigrants.
California regulators now allow insurance companies to account for reinsurance costs in insurance rates.
California regulators now allow insurance companies to price future risk into insurance rates.
More than 600,000 people are on California's FAIR Plan.
Some people in Altadena and Pacific Palisades have not been paid on insurance claims from January 2025 wildfires.
California imports oil from Iraq.
Xavier Becerra was California attorney general.
Chad Bianco seized 650,000 certified ballots from county election officials as part of an election fraud investigation.
Donald Trump endorsed Steve Hilton for California governor.
Tom Steyer and his wife have said they will give away most of their wealth while they are alive.
A California Highway Patrol officer was recorded giving a roadside English proficiency test to a commercial truck driver.
The U.S. Department of Transportation said California is the only state that refuses to ensure big-rig drivers can communicate with law enforcement.
Election Day for the 2026 California primary election is June 2, 2026.