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The dominant moral style centers on law enforcement, anti-regulation, and partisan change claims, with secondary earned-desert and family/life themes.", "foundation_scores": { "authority": { "confidence": 0.72, "evidence": [ { "citation": { "label": "Hilton campaign home page", "snapshot_sha256": "1214999c89b846aab68c0af3d59245bebd57af57b6fe972df788993bcacf8f84", "source_id": "steve-hilton-s1", "source_role": "campaign_or_program_source", "text_path": "data/processed/source-snapshots/2026-05-26/text/stevehiltonforgovernor-com-1214999c89b8.txt", "url": "https://stevehiltonforgovernor.com/", "word_count": 3157 }, "explanation": "Law/order framing.", "quote": "We need to get back to the basic principle that we should enforce the law", "source_id": "steve-hilton-s1" }, { "citation": { "label": "Nexstar / NewsNation / The Hill California gubernatorial primary debate", "snapshot_sha256": null, "source_id": "steve-hilton-s10", "source_role": "candidate_transcript_segment", "text_path": "data/processed/source-corpus-segments/2026-05-26/event-2026-04-22-nexstar-newsnation-hill-governor-debate/steve-hilton.txt", "url": "https://www.newsnationnow.com/press/newsnation-and-the-hill-to-carry-nextstars-california-gubernatorial-primary-debate-on-april-22-at-10-pm-et/", "word_count": 1939 }, "explanation": "Reinforces authority emphasis.", "quote": "We need to enforce the law.", "source_id": "steve-hilton-s10" }, { "citation": { "label": "Hilton campaign home page", "snapshot_sha256": "1214999c89b846aab68c0af3d59245bebd57af57b6fe972df788993bcacf8f84", "source_id": "steve-hilton-s1", "source_role": "campaign_or_program_source", "text_path": "data/processed/source-snapshots/2026-05-26/text/stevehiltonforgovernor-com-1214999c89b8.txt", "url": "https://stevehiltonforgovernor.com/", "word_count": 3157 }, "explanation": "Limiting anti-regulatory stance.", "quote": "endless rules and regulations, bossing everyone around, telling people what to do and how to live.", "source_id": "steve-hilton-s1" } ], "high_pole_label": "Legitimate authority, hierarchy, law, and social order", "limiting_examples": [ { "citation": { "label": "Hilton campaign home page", "snapshot_sha256": "1214999c89b846aab68c0af3d59245bebd57af57b6fe972df788993bcacf8f84", "source_id": "steve-hilton-s1", "source_role": "campaign_or_program_source", "text_path": "data/processed/source-snapshots/2026-05-26/text/stevehiltonforgovernor-com-1214999c89b8.txt", "url": "https://stevehiltonforgovernor.com/", "word_count": 3157 }, "explanation": "Anti-bureaucratic/anti-'nanny state' rhetoric can undercut deference-to-authority framing.", "quote": "plagued by endless rules and regulations, bossing everyone around, telling people what to do and how to live.", "source_id": "steve-hilton-s1" } ], "low_pole_label": "Non-authority or anti-bureaucratic framing", "score": 0.75, "supporting_examples": [ { "citation": { "label": "Hilton campaign home page", "snapshot_sha256": "1214999c89b846aab68c0af3d59245bebd57af57b6fe972df788993bcacf8f84", "source_id": "steve-hilton-s1", "source_role": "campaign_or_program_source", "text_path": "data/processed/source-snapshots/2026-05-26/text/stevehiltonforgovernor-com-1214999c89b8.txt", "url": "https://stevehiltonforgovernor.com/", "word_count": 3157 }, "explanation": "Explicit law-enforcement-as-moral-baseline framing.", "quote": "We need to get back to the basic principle that we should enforce the law", "source_id": "steve-hilton-s1" }, { "citation": { "label": "Nexstar / NewsNation / The Hill California gubernatorial primary debate", "snapshot_sha256": null, "source_id": "steve-hilton-s10", "source_role": "candidate_transcript_segment", "text_path": "data/processed/source-corpus-segments/2026-05-26/event-2026-04-22-nexstar-newsnation-hill-governor-debate/steve-hilton.txt", "url": "https://www.newsnationnow.com/press/newsnation-and-the-hill-to-carry-nextstars-california-gubernatorial-primary-debate-on-april-22-at-10-pm-et/", "word_count": 1939 }, "explanation": "Order/illegality framing for homelessness policy.", "quote": "it is illegal to live and camp on the streets. We need to enforce the law.", "source_id": "steve-hilton-s10" }, { "citation": { "label": "Jewish California Governor 2026 Candidate Forum", "snapshot_sha256": null, "source_id": "steve-hilton-s9", "source_role": "candidate_transcript_segment", "text_path": "data/processed/source-corpus-segments/2026-05-26/event-2026-02-26-jewish-california-governor-candidate-forum/steve-hilton.txt", "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mH-ZKGUUlv0", "word_count": 717 }, "explanation": "Authority-as-rule-enforcement framing with emphasis on calm enforcement.", "quote": "we need to enforce all our laws peacefully and calmly.", "source_id": "steve-hilton-s9" } ], "uncertainty": "Authority rhetoric is strong around law enforcement, but it coexists with anti-bureaucracy/anti-regulation attacks that frame authority as overreach. Score reflects that law/order enforcement is still a repeated and central theme across sources." }, "care": { "confidence": 0.58, "evidence": [ { "citation": { "label": "Black Action Alliance / KTVU / KTTV California gubernatorial debate", "snapshot_sha256": null, "source_id": "steve-hilton-s8", "source_role": "candidate_transcript_segment", "text_path": "data/processed/source-corpus-segments/2026-05-26/event-2026-02-03-black-action-alliance-ktvu-kttv-governor-debate/steve-hilton.txt", "url": "https://www.blackactionalliance.org/events/2026-ca-gubernatorial-debate-hosted-by-black-action-alliance", "word_count": 2456 }, "explanation": "Care-based appeal.", "quote": "We would never allow someone never tolerate someone we love to live in the conditions we see all over our state. So why should we accept it for anyone else?", "source_id": "steve-hilton-s8" }, { "citation": { "label": "Nexstar / NewsNation / The Hill California gubernatorial primary debate", "snapshot_sha256": null, "source_id": "steve-hilton-s10", "source_role": "candidate_transcript_segment", "text_path": "data/processed/source-corpus-segments/2026-05-26/event-2026-04-22-nexstar-newsnation-hill-governor-debate/steve-hilton.txt", "url": "https://www.newsnationnow.com/press/newsnation-and-the-hill-to-carry-nextstars-california-gubernatorial-primary-debate-on-april-22-at-10-pm-et/", "word_count": 1939 }, "explanation": "Limiting enforcement emphasis.", "quote": "Number one, it is illegal to live and camp on the streets. We need to enforce the law.", "source_id": "steve-hilton-s10" } ], "high_pole_label": "Care / harm protection", "limiting_examples": [ { "citation": { "label": "Nexstar / NewsNation / The Hill California gubernatorial primary debate", "snapshot_sha256": null, "source_id": "steve-hilton-s10", "source_role": "candidate_transcript_segment", "text_path": "data/processed/source-corpus-segments/2026-05-26/event-2026-04-22-nexstar-newsnation-hill-governor-debate/steve-hilton.txt", "url": "https://www.newsnationnow.com/press/newsnation-and-the-hill-to-carry-nextstars-california-gubernatorial-primary-debate-on-april-22-at-10-pm-et/", "word_count": 1939 }, "explanation": "Primary emphasis shifts to enforcement/order rather than compassion or harm reduction.", "quote": "My plan is a common sense, three-point plan. Number one, it is illegal to live and camp on the streets. We need to enforce the law.", "source_id": "steve-hilton-s10" } ], "low_pole_label": "Impersonal or non-care framing", "score": 0.35, "supporting_examples": [ { "citation": { "label": "Black Action Alliance / KTVU / KTTV California gubernatorial debate", "snapshot_sha256": null, "source_id": "steve-hilton-s8", "source_role": "candidate_transcript_segment", "text_path": "data/processed/source-corpus-segments/2026-05-26/event-2026-02-03-black-action-alliance-ktvu-kttv-governor-debate/steve-hilton.txt", "url": "https://www.blackactionalliance.org/events/2026-ca-gubernatorial-debate-hosted-by-black-action-alliance", "word_count": 2456 }, "explanation": "Compassion/concern for suffering conditions of homelessness framed as unacceptable.", "quote": "We would never allow someone never tolerate someone we love to live in the conditions we see all over our state. So why should we accept it for anyone else?", "source_id": "steve-hilton-s8" }, { "citation": { "label": "Hilton campaign home page", "snapshot_sha256": "1214999c89b846aab68c0af3d59245bebd57af57b6fe972df788993bcacf8f84", "source_id": "steve-hilton-s1", "source_role": "campaign_or_program_source", "text_path": "data/processed/source-snapshots/2026-05-26/text/stevehiltonforgovernor-com-1214999c89b8.txt", "url": "https://stevehiltonforgovernor.com/", "word_count": 3157 }, "explanation": "Health/safety welfare claim used to indict the status quo.", "quote": "almost a million Californians don’t have access to clean drinking water.", "source_id": "steve-hilton-s1" } ], "uncertainty": "Care language appears but is not dominant; homelessness discussion frequently pivots to enforcement and requirements. Evidence for care is clear but relatively isolated compared with law-and-order and anti-regulation themes." }, "equality": { "confidence": 0.55, "evidence": [ { "citation": { "label": "Hilton Second Amendment policy", "snapshot_sha256": "3508f32d83cd918ae521d4c345898a7e0f6eb8001fb70a37d124a0d0c318253a", "source_id": "steve-hilton-s4", "source_role": "campaign_or_program_source", "text_path": "data/processed/source-snapshots/2026-05-26/text/stevehiltonforgovernor-com-policy-restoring-second-amendment-rights-in-california-3508f32d83cd.txt", "url": "https://stevehiltonforgovernor.com/policy/restoring-second-amendment-rights-in-california/", "word_count": 1068 }, "explanation": "Equal standing/rights language.", "quote": "The Constitution should apply equally in every county in California.", "source_id": "steve-hilton-s4" }, { "citation": { "label": "CNN California governor primary debate", "snapshot_sha256": null, "source_id": "steve-hilton-s12", "source_role": "candidate_transcript_segment", "text_path": "data/processed/source-corpus-segments/2026-05-26/event-2026-05-05-cnn-california-governor-primary-debate/steve-hilton.txt", "url": "https://ktvz.com/politics/cnn-us-politics/2026/05/05/key-moments-from-cnns-california-governor-primary-debate/", "word_count": 1219 }, "explanation": "Limiting, shifts frame toward deservedness/ingroup contrast.", "quote": "legal immigrants who really resent the unfairness that we're seeing in California, where you have illegal immigrants who are getting free benefits", "source_id": "steve-hilton-s12" } ], "high_pole_label": "Equal treatment and equal outcomes", "limiting_examples": [ { "citation": { "label": "CNN California governor primary debate", "snapshot_sha256": null, "source_id": "steve-hilton-s12", "source_role": "candidate_transcript_segment", "text_path": "data/processed/source-corpus-segments/2026-05-26/event-2026-05-05-cnn-california-governor-primary-debate/steve-hilton.txt", "url": "https://ktvz.com/politics/cnn-us-politics/2026/05/05/key-moments-from-cnns-california-governor-primary-debate/", "word_count": 1219 }, "explanation": "Equality is framed in a competitive/deservingness way (benefits allocation), which shifts toward proportionality rather than equal standing.", "quote": "legal immigrants who really resent the unfairness that we're seeing in California, where you have illegal immigrants who are getting free benefits", "source_id": "steve-hilton-s12" } ], "low_pole_label": "Non-equality or pragmatic framing", "score": 0.35, "supporting_examples": [ { "citation": { "label": "Hilton Second Amendment policy", "snapshot_sha256": "3508f32d83cd918ae521d4c345898a7e0f6eb8001fb70a37d124a0d0c318253a", "source_id": "steve-hilton-s4", "source_role": "campaign_or_program_source", "text_path": "data/processed/source-snapshots/2026-05-26/text/stevehiltonforgovernor-com-policy-restoring-second-amendment-rights-in-california-3508f32d83cd.txt", "url": "https://stevehiltonforgovernor.com/policy/restoring-second-amendment-rights-in-california/", "word_count": 1068 }, "explanation": "Explicit equal-application-of-law framing.", "quote": "The Constitution should apply equally in every county in California.", "source_id": "steve-hilton-s4" } ], "uncertainty": "Equality rhetoric is most explicit in the Second Amendment policy (equal application of the Constitution), while other mentions of 'fairness' often concern benefits distribution across legal status and can function more as proportionality/ingroup contrast than equal-rights universalism." }, "loyalty": { "confidence": 0.6, "evidence": [ { "citation": { "label": "Nexstar / NewsNation / The Hill California gubernatorial primary debate", "snapshot_sha256": null, "source_id": "steve-hilton-s10", "source_role": "candidate_transcript_segment", "text_path": "data/processed/source-corpus-segments/2026-05-26/event-2026-04-22-nexstar-newsnation-hill-governor-debate/steve-hilton.txt", "url": "https://www.newsnationnow.com/press/newsnation-and-the-hill-to-carry-nextstars-california-gubernatorial-primary-debate-on-april-22-at-10-pm-et/", "word_count": 1939 }, "explanation": "In-group partisan loyalty.", "quote": "We have to elect a Republican as governor this year.", "source_id": "steve-hilton-s10" }, { "citation": { "label": "CBS News California / San Francisco Examiner gubernatorial debate", "snapshot_sha256": null, "source_id": "steve-hilton-s14", "source_role": "candidate_transcript_segment", "text_path": "data/processed/source-corpus-segments/2026-05-26/event-2026-05-14-cbs-sf-examiner-governor-debate/steve-hilton.txt", "url": "https://www.cbsnews.com/sanfrancisco/live-updates/2026-california-governors-race-primary-debate-bay-area/", "word_count": 1483 }, "explanation": "Limiting pragmatism counter-frame.", "quote": "I'm not an ideologue. 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Less evidence of nonpartisan national/service solidarity beyond these political group cues." }, "proportionality": { "confidence": 0.62, "evidence": [ { "citation": { "label": "Black Action Alliance / KTVU / KTTV California gubernatorial debate", "snapshot_sha256": null, "source_id": "steve-hilton-s8", "source_role": "candidate_transcript_segment", "text_path": "data/processed/source-corpus-segments/2026-05-26/event-2026-02-03-black-action-alliance-ktvu-kttv-governor-debate/steve-hilton.txt", "url": "https://www.blackactionalliance.org/events/2026-ca-gubernatorial-debate-hosted-by-black-action-alliance", "word_count": 2456 }, "explanation": "Desert framing.", "quote": "I achieved this. 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