California Republican gubernatorial candidate Steve Hilton slammed Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) on Tuesday for traveling across the country to meet with rural residents in South Carolina as parts of his state remain in ruins.

“This is Gavin Newsom’s California,” Hilton posted in a video on X, standing in front of debris from wildfires that devastated the state earlier this year. “Six months on from the fire disaster caused by his policies he calls THIS a ‘historic pace’ of debris removal. Now he runs away to South Carolina to run for president. What a disgrace. We need a governor focused on this job, not the next one.”