GARDEN GROVE, Calif.—Republican candidate for California governor Steve Hilton offered words of encouragement to around 500 supporters gathered in a hotel ballroom in Orange County on Nov. 3, as results rolled in showing his Democratic opponent Xavier Becerra had won the race.
Hilton said his campaign has grown into a movement for change in California.
“The change we hope for may be delayed, but the change is coming. Our fight goes on,” he told supporters in his concession speech. “It starts tonight—our commitment, our pledge to fight with everything we’ve got to make this beautiful state that we love so much truly golden again….