When The GOP Needs A Closer, Chad Bianco Plays The Spoiler
California Republicans finally had momentum. Steve Hilton walked onto the debate stage and flat-out owned it, commanding the room and winning roughly 75% of viewers by any honest measure. Clear vision, unapologetic energy, and a message that actually sounded conservative. And right on cue, along comes a woke RINO to gum up the works.
Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco isn’t running to win. He’s running to drag. Just like Curtis Sliwa did in New York, fracturing the right while the left marched to victory, Bianco is reprising the spoiler role, California edition. The difference? Sliwa at least showed up for the debate. Bianco couldn’t even manage that.
A Cowardly No-Show Tells You Everything
Bianco skipped the first gubernatorial debate entirely. No explanation that passes the smell test. No defense of his record. No attempt to explain why voters should choose him over a dominant front-runner. When you don’t show up, you’re not making a statement — you’re hiding.
And what’s he hiding from? His own record. A record that doesn’t square with the tough-on-crime, anti-tax, border-hawk persona he’s suddenly trying to cosplay. It’s easy to talk conservative when you’re running statewide. It’s harder when video exists.
Running From Woke While Wearing Its Uniform
Bianco is using his sheriff’s badge as political camouflage. He talks like a conservative now, but he governed like a consensus-chasing bureaucrat when it mattered. Crime, taxes, immigration — these are props in his campaign theater, not principles he’s consistently lived by.
This isn’t evolution. It’s reinvention. And it’s happening because he thinks GOP voters won’t look too closely.
Kissing Ass And Taking A Knee
Let’s talk about June 2020. While cities burned and law enforcement across the country faced existential hostility, Chad Bianco chose symbolism over backbone. During George Floyd protests in downtown Riverside, Bianco and deputies were filmed taking a knee alongside protesters, urging unity and cooperation. At the time, it was widely reported — accurately — as a gesture of solidarity and de-escalation.
Now that he wants conservative votes, Bianco is frantically rebranding the moment. Suddenly, it wasn’t taking a knee. Suddenly, it was prayer. Suddenly, it was misunderstood. Funny how clarity arrives only when ambition demands it.
You don’t get to rewrite the tape. Conservatives remember 2020. They remember who stood firm and who folded for applause.
When Progressives Endorse You, Believe Them
The coup de grâce? San Francisco progressive Democrat Sheriff Paul Miyamoto has publicly endorsed Bianco. Read that again. A Bay Area progressive lawman sees Chad Bianco as his guy.
That endorsement didn’t come from nowhere. It came from shared instincts, shared priorities, and shared comfort with the politics of accommodation. When your campaign is cheered by the very crowd that wrecked California, voters should take the hint.
Hilton Leads, Bianco Leaks Support
Steve Hilton is building a coalition to actually win — not just posture. Bianco, by contrast, is siphoning votes with a campaign built on spin, selective memory, and carefully edited rhetoric. That doesn’t help Republicans. It helps Democrats.
This race doesn’t need a spoiler sheriff playing dress-up as a reformer. It needs a nominee who can unify the right and punch back without apology.
Bottom Line
Chad Bianco’s campaign is a glossy rebrand wrapped around a woke record. He talks law and order now, but when pressure came, he knelt — literally and politically. His absence from the debate, his revisionist storytelling, and his endorsement from a San Francisco progressive tell a single story: he is a poseur.
California Republicans can’t afford another ego project masquerading as a movement. Bianco isn’t the answer. He’s the distraction.
We are so screwed with a poseur like Chad Bianco when we have a real champion like Steve Hilton.
— Steve
