Steve Hilton: “Thank you to CNN for bringing Xavier out of hiding.”

But I also want to ask you to understand what we are doing, why we’re doing it and to ask for some grace as well as understanding as we fight this campaign.

If you can't be bothered to earn people's vote, then you don't deserve people's votes.

I know everyone says, well, it's California, Republican can't win. I don't know. I think people are sick of all this.

We were trying to make a point in a provocative way, in satirical way.