“The most important thing about a candidate is not their promises - those hardly ever get delivered anyway. It's about how they would respond to unpredictable future events. And that's about their character.”

British-born American conservative political commentator

Steve Hilton is a British-born American conservative political commentator and former political adviser. He served as director of strategy for British prime minister David Cameron from 2010 to 2012 and later became a Fox News contributor and host. He hosted The Next Revolution, a weekly current affairs program on Fox News, from 2017 to 2023. Hilton also co-founded the crowdfunding platform Crowdpac and served as its chief executive until 2018. He is known for his support of Donald Trump and for promoting what he calls “positive populism,” and he is the Republican Party’s candidate for governor of California in the 2026 election.