Democrat Xavier Becerra and Steve Hilton face off in California gubernatorial debate (September 30, 2026)

California Republican gubernatorial candidate Steve Hilton went off on Democrat Xavier Becerra during their debate this week on CNN, reminding him on live TV that his colleague in the Biden Administration, Susan Rice, referred to him as an “idiot” and a “b*tch ass.”

It can be recalled that Rice, a leading figure in Biden’s failed wide-open border approach, reportedly held deep animosity toward Becerra over his failures in providing trafficked children with shelters during the Biden border crisis.

Even the architect of the plan to give away control of the border to the cartels and smugglers was fed up with Becerra’s negligence, so much so that she called him an “idiot” and a “b*tch ass” in private conversations.

Now, Becerra wants to be the chief executive of a border state, which is already overrun with illegal immigrants and violent criminals.

Hilton reminded Becerra and the world of Susan Rice’s condemnation of him during his tenure as Health and Human Services Secretary under Biden, telling him live on stage, “She described you as an idiot. She called you bitch ass.”

Further, the Hilton campaign also made a website, slamming him with the nickname, “B*tch–ass Becerra” and a website dedicated to the new title.

“Chaos. Fraud. Child trafficking. Gender extremism. Higher costs for you. Empty Suit Becerra stood by and did nothing. He enabled it all,” the website reads.

“Susan Rice called him ‘b*tch-ass’ and an ‘idiot.’ Nancy Pelosi told Biden not to put him in the Cabinet. Obama’s speechwriter said ‘nobody in the administration has anything good to say about him.’ Former Biden official Xochitl Hinojosa said he was not an effective HHS secretary. ‘I do not think he is qualified to be the governor,’ a former colleague said. ‘I don’t think he’s qualified to be the boss of anything.’”

During the debate on Wednesday, Hilton thrashed the Democratic nominee after Becerra accused him of being all talk and no action, saying, “You just say the talk, but you’ve never done it.”

“What I’ve never done is what you’ve done in your 36 years as a career politician, where you’ve never created a job, you’ve never actually had to make any money of your own,” Hilton fired back. “All you’ve ever done is spent other people’s money in every government job you’ve had.”

Then he ended Becerra by saying, “according to your Democrat colleagues, the ones who worked with you, like Susan Rice, who worked with you side-by-side when you were in the Biden cabinet, she described you as an idiot. She called you bitch-ass. Why did Susan Rice, a respected political leader, call you an idiot?”

Becerra stammered back, claiming he created “millions of jobs” as a member of Congress, by fighting Trump as Attorney General, and in his role as HHS Secretary and trying to recover from the brutal hit.

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Throughout the debate, as the Gateway Pundit reported, Hilton destroyed Becerra on his record as HHS Secretary under Biden, where he lost track of hundreds of thousands of unaccompanied minors who were trafficked across the border and likely sold into slavery.

“When you were HHS Secretary, you were responsible for 479,000 unaccompanied migrant children and for their welfare in camps that you ran. You sent them because you dismantled the vetting that should have made sure that they were with a safe, protective family or sponsor,” Hilton said.

“You sent thousands of young children directly into the clutches of child sex and labor traffickers; hundreds of thousands of children that you were responsible for are still missing today. 100,000 of them are under ten years old, so I cannot believe that you have not apologized, that you haven’t any kind of sense of shame or responsibility for what you did to those children, and you stand here lecturing people about immigration.”

Becerra could be seen nervously sipping his coffee and smiling as Hilton reminded him of his evil record of putting children in harm’s way.

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