Meet the Black conservative talk show host who could be the next California governor

Elder is already talking like a man with a Cabinet to hire. He says he’s in touch with former Gov. Pete Wilson and is lining up advisers, to include Wilson’s former attorney, Daniel Kolkey, and Steven Greenhut, a resident senior fellow at the conservative think tank R Street Institute and the author of the 2020 book “Winning the Water Wars.”

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