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Gavin Newsom jetted off to the United Nations COP30 climate summit in Belém, Brazil, this week, posing beside global elites while California families line up at food banks and watch their communities unravel. His speech touted California’s “leadership” on climate as if that performance on the world stage somehow absolves him of responsibility at home.
On Newsmax’s National Report, Republican candidate Steve Hilton didn’t mince words, blasting Newsom as shameless and brazenly hypocritical for cavorting with UN bureaucrats while the Golden State collapses under his watch. Hilton’s criticism — that Newsom prefers virtue-signaling overseas to governing at home — echoes what millions of Californians feel as crime, homelessness, and economic pain mount in their cities.
This isn’t a debate about science, it’s about priorities and accountability. Californians are paying the bills for Newsom’s global photo-ops through skyrocketing costs, failing public services, and the need for emergency state funds and National Guard logistics to prop up food banks when federal programs falter. The spectacle of a governor lecturing the world while ordinary citizens suffer is a textbook case of Washington-style elites—only now it’s Sacramento doing the grandstanding.
Newsom and his allies will frame trips like COP30 as necessary statesmanship, but their record shows a pattern: international applause, domestic excuses, and an endless stream of policies that make life harder for working Americans. Conservatives aren’t against local innovation, but we won’t celebrate leaders who prioritize global fanfare over fixing streets, schools, and the supply chains that put food on our tables. Voters deserve leaders who deliver results, not speeches.
Steve Hilton’s attack resonates because it exposes that ugly gap between rhetoric and reality: elite virtue-signaling paid for by taxpayers while ordinary families pay the price. If conservatives want to save California, we must keep calling out this hypocrisy, fight for common-sense solutions that restore law and order, bring down costs, and put hardworking Californians first. The era of posturing politicians representing themselves to the global left must end — and it must end at the ballot box.
