The DeVory Darkins Show - California Sheriff Chad Bianco drops MAJOR UPDATE amid Swalwell scandal

Episode Date: April 14, 2026

California Sheriff Chad Bianco drops MAJOR UPDATE amid Swalwell scandal. Chad Bianco is one of two Republicans running for California Governor and in this interview he answered a few of our questions regarding his priorities if he becomes the next Governor of California.EPISODE SPONSOR: Go to our sponsor https://aura.com/devory to get a 14-day free trial and see if any of your data has been exposed.FOLLOW ME:⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.x.com/devorydarkins⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.instagram.com/devorydarkins⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.rumble.com/c/devorydarkins⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://devory.wtf.tv⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠BUY ME A COFFEE:⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://buymeacoffee.com/devorydarkins⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠SHOP OUR MERCH STORE:⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://store.devorydarkins.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠BUSINESS INQUIRIES:⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠[e-mail]⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

All right, guys, welcome back to the DeVorey Darken show. A very special guest here with us virtually. An honorable man, Sheriff Chad Bianco. He is the sheriff over Riverside County, one of the largest actually in the country. And I'm really privileged to have him here on the show because, as you guys are aware, he is running to be the next governor of the state of California. Such a great state. Don't know what happened to it over the past decade. But I think he'll be able to answer some of our questions here. And again, I'm just so privileged to have him here on the show. How are you doing, Sheriff? Thank you. Thank you. It's a pleasure to be here. Absolutely. Absolutely. All right.

So let's just hop into it because my first question right off the gate, and I'm sure, depending on what side you're on, and maybe a controversial one, but I like to hear it from the people we're talking to. What is your stance on illegal immigration as pertains to the people who are in the country today illegally? They got to go. I mean, I am a man of law and order. If you're in the country illegally, you're breaking the law and you've got to go. We definitely have a broken immigration system that the federal government needs to fix.

But it's no different today than what it was two years ago, eight years ago, 20 years ago. If you come in this country illegally, you should be worried about being deported because you're here illegally. You need to come to this country legally. And everything that, you know, as far as Mike and Mike could. concern with the federal government is that the people that come here legally, a lot of them come here either on visa or whatever the case may be and then try and get citizenship while they're here. And it takes 15, 20 years. That is broken. That has to stop. If they're here legally, we're allowing they're in, they get here. Maybe they get married. They've got a job. Now they decide they want to stay.

There should be a process that makes it easier for those people to stay. The ones that come in this country illegally, you broke the law. You got to go. I'm a man of law and order. We are a civilized society that absolutely must have an adherence to law and you've got to go. I'm completely against amnesty. It's very plain. Yeah, absolutely. Okay, so I thank you for making that clear because I think a lot of people online, as you know, the internet likes to take comments out of context. And so I just had to just start with that because I know you want to be clear on the record. Yeah, I do. And a lot of that. So for the people, that are watching and I see that going around we're being paid for people are paying a lot of

money to spread misinformation for an election because my opponent can't raise himself above me so they've got to lower me down and so you the problem with me is I'm the most transparent person in the entire world I'm in government that believes there are no secrets in government you are supposed to be transparent of everything so I'll sit an interview with you for four hours if you want and then politicians like the person running against me doesn't do that and so he'll take that four hours take one sentence or a portion of that video and then use that against me taking completely out of context so the funny thing about that is is i use the term pathway to citizenship so i believe there should be a pathway to citizenship and i kind of explain that to you and if if you're here in the

country illegally or you're coming here and you want to become a citizen the federal government better fix it and make that pathway to you getting your citizenship short. I have friends that have been trying for 15 and 20 years that cannot become citizens and they're trying to do it the right way. And it's very ironic that the person paying for all of this misinformation about me somehow during the Biden administration got a very, very fast pathway to citizenship that may be a little suspect and that's okay with him. He just wants to lie about me and what my beliefs are and take

and taking something completely out of context, trying to make people believe that I'm something that I'm not. Yeah. Thank you for explaining that. You know, you've been in the sheriff's office. I was reading your story, 30 years, by the way. So thank you for your service. I don't know if law enforcement are usually told that often,

but thank you. Question here is growing up there in Riverside, what do you think has been the most heartbreaking experience you've had? now as Sheriff and looking back because California has essentially become a sanctuary state. Do you have a prime example? Yeah, I lost a dispatcher to a vehicle accident caused by a drunk driver that was an illegal alien that had already had two prior DUI convictions. So his third DUI conviction, he'd never been deported because of this state.

His third, he kills one of my dispatchers. And as the sheriff, we have repeated situations like this throughout my county. I've got two and a half million people in the county. But we repeatedly have these situations happening again. One was a 13-year-old boy that was just killed riding his bicycle by another DUI driver that had multiple convictions of DUI, and he's in the country illegally. We are repeatedly seeing repeat criminal offenders that are in this country, illegally that our state government protects because it makes it illegal for me as the sheriff

or any law enforcement officer in the state to cooperate with ICE to get that person deported. The sanctuary state policy in the state is an absolute disaster. It is making California less safe and it has to go. It's got to be repealed. It's got to go away. It's unconstitutional. There's so many different grounds that we have to get rid of it on, but it's horrific here. Yeah, you know, hearing you say that, I've been saying this on my show, which is like, doesn't it cost us more money when it comes to these criminals? And if we're arresting them and then we're housing them in our jail or we are putting them back onto the street and not deporting them, doesn't that ultimately cost us more money than just catching them and getting them out of this country? What is your thoughts on that? Yeah, it very much does.

And so, for instance, a theft, if they're stealing. I mean, I get that. Who cares? They're going to get a slap on the wrist and everything else. I don't care if they do jail time. They need to be deported because they're victimizing us. In a situation where it's more of like a murder or a serious crime, I think the victims have to be consulted on what that outcome should be.

Do they think that if the person gets sent back to the country that they came from, is that a miscarriage of justice because they're not suffering a penalty for harming them? I think that that's a big situation. So if they murder somebody, does the family of the person murder want justice and they want that person behind bars for the rest of their life, then they should stay here behind bars for the rest of their life. But if it's a victim of a theft or anything that's less than that, where, I mean, the victim may not care one way or another, well, we should care.

and we should not have to pay a cost, a taxpayer cost, for that criminal being in our country illegally, they need to go. Yeah, yeah. I totally am with you on that. Let's say everything works out. You're the next governor of California. What would be your main thing? I think every leader who obviously has the privilege to be the governor of this state,

or any state, rather, there's usually that main thing that they want to be able to leave the office for or being known for. Do you have any idea what that would be for you? Yeah, this is very, very easy. And it's, I came to this country for, or I'm sorry, I came to this state from a different state to make a life for myself here and have that California dream that people talk about. And that used to be real and it is not anymore. It's unattainable.

That California dream is not attainable. So after I leave, I won't make sure every single person here in California, every one of their children and grandchildren have that. same California dream that I was able to achieve. You work hard, the government's not in your way. The harder you work, the more you can get, the more you can achieve, you can do anything you want for you or your family. That's what I want here. And we know in my lifetime here, 37 years that I've been here, the reason that is no

longer attainable is because of taxes and regulation. And I am going to ensure that while I am the governor in this state, we remove all of the restrictions, the regulations that are harming Californians. and lower or eliminate all of the taxes. So we will have the lowest tax rates in the country. We will have the lowest cost of living. We will have the lowest business regulations in the country, most business friendly. And we are going to stimulate the economy like no one has ever stimulated our economy before.

Yeah. You know, I actually believe in that. And the reason why I do is because you can't do anything worse than what's happened. I mean, I have a list here in front of me. It's Yamaha, In and Out, Blue Diamond. Chevron, Tesla. I mean, the list goes on of these major corporations leaving, and it's all for obviously tax and like you were saying,

the business laws essentially. And you, did you grow up in Riverside, essentially? I know you've been there for 30 years, right? Yes, I came to, yes, I came to Riverside. I was 22 years old. And so I've been here 37 years now, 36, 37 years. And it's been the whole time, one year I was in, in Malibu, which is a little bit outside of that calabasas.

It's too expensive to live there. It was. It was great. Too expensive to live there as a 22-year-old. And so I moved to Riverside. Yeah. Yeah. So obviously, if you become governor of the first 100 days, what are some top priorities for you?

Like, just give me three of them. Yeah. We will be oil independent estate. I'm going to remove all of the restrictions on oil. Our oil industry is all environmental. They're all being suspended. They're all being removed. We will drill our own oil. We will manufacture our own oil into gasoline. We will be oil independent, gasoline independent. We will have the lowest cost gas in the country. That's going to be number one. We have a water infrastructure problem here that we have to start building dams. It's been 14 years that we told the government to build dams, and instead they took four away. I will start building those dams on day two after I remove the restrictions of why they're not being built. So you've got, massive taxes that need to be reduced and massive business regulation. The regulation is easy.

It's all a stroke of a pen. So several days, I'll be doing nothing but signing my name to removing regulations. And then we'll get busy with making our oil industry thrive. We're going to eliminate California state income tax. There's so many, we're basically a complete direction change for California government. We're going from a socialist government that's moved toward socialism to one of the free market system.

We're going to stimulate this economy like no time. in history. We are so far behind the curve and in the amount of houses that we have here. We massive amount of houses built. We prevent the building industry from building them. Those regulations are going to be removed. It's really just going to be a massive stimulation of the economy. Yeah. I love that. I guess this is more of a personal question. When did you know in your heart that you were going to jump in the race and actually do this? You know, I know there's a point where you're kind of thinking about it, but you were like, okay, I'm doing this. recall that it does the the exact moment was when president trump finished his inauguration speech

and there was i we had been moving in the direction for all of 2024 uh maybe a little bit of 2023 all of 24 and coming up past the election there was a lot of political things going on in california that we really didn't think that a republican would be able to win and so i thought I told everybody that was on the team, we're not doing it. I changed my mind. I'm going to keep being the sheriff. And then I went to the inauguration. I listened to his speech.

And while I'm listening to his speech, my brain is going 100 miles an hour, thinking about the words that he's saying. And I knew that I could make a difference in California. I knew that California was right for the taking. And when he finished the speech, I leaned over to my wife. And I said, I'm sorry, but I'm going to do this. And she smiled and she said, I figured. And we've been doing it ever since.

You know, it's such an interesting time because I believe California, maybe the only state or a few states where it could potentially be two individuals running to be governor that affiliate with the Republican Party. And when I learned about that, I was like, oh, wow. I mean, if there's ever a time where this might happen, this is probably going to be it. Because when you look at Democrats, I'm not, there's nobody that's standing out to me. And, you know, my personal opinion, they're all still involved in these radical policies. And one being, of course, men playing in women's sports.

So could you cover some of the policies that you probably, I'm assuming you don't support, but just give us your thoughts about it all. Yeah, so that's an easy one. I mean, there is, you're a boy or a girl, not both, and you don't get to pretend. You can pretend all you want. If you want, if you're a boy and you want to pretend to be a girl or a man, pretend to be a woman. That's your prerogative, do whatever you want, but you don't get to force us to pretend along with you. There is not going, you are not going into girls in women's

locker rooms. You're not going to compete against them in athletics and take away the opportunity that we've given our young girls to succeed in athletics and we're giving it all to boys now. It is the, it is the most asinine thing I've ever heard. Adults have left the conversation. They're cowards that are in these positions that are that are cowering to not wanting to be called a name. Instead, there's the entire state of girls is being finished by allowing boys in their locker rooms and it's assigne. So that's a bit, that's an easy one. But the California has become pro-criminal. Our legislators and our governor have a love affair with criminal and that has to end. We are going to make crime a crime again here. That that policy is completely opposite

from me and the California agenda. So you've got the boys and girls sports. You've got the whole transition thing and allowing 12-year-olds to make their own decisions and secrets from parents. I will tell you something not only as a dad and as a man, but as a 33-year law enforcement professional, when you have an adult telling a child that it's okay to keep a secret from their parents, there is something very evil about that. And that is not going to happen here. We are going to reverse all of that nonsense that we are doing.

The environmental terrorism that we have from environmentalists here in California that have prevented growth, that have prevented progress, that is going to end. The current people that are running for this position are doubling down and tripling and quadrupling down on these carbon credits and cap and trade. and taxing businesses more and the pay your fair share and all the rich people are going to pay and the nobody you just have to stay home and the government will give you money that ends with me as your governor we are going back to common sense governance we're we're going back to how government was supposed to operate and you can achieve anything you want here government's going to get out of your way and it's going to depend on how hard you want to work not how much you not how much you just want to sit back and take from the government

Yeah. You know, speaking of those policies, one thing that you might be able to relate to this is the electricity prices. So I mean, you've been in California for a while, so you know exactly what I'm talking about. And I think part of the country probably doesn't realize this, but the electricity prices in California is just, it's crazy. What's your, like, what's your read on that? Do you have any plans as governor to do something like about that? I very much do. It's corruption. It is, 100% corruption and greed and bribery. And now can I prove those no? But as a common sense individual with us sitting having this conversation, we know that's what it is.

Will I be able to prove it? I don't know. If I can't prove it, somebody's going to jail. That's how it's going to be with me in the governor's office. Because right now the state electric grid, the electric supply and all electricity is controlled by the California Public Utilities Commission. And the California Public Utilities Commission is designed to regulate the electric companies. Well, lost track of that a long time ago.

So electric companies have completely run amok. They just keep bribing all of the, or offering them something to get these to just keep allowing increases in all of our rates. So every year, our electric rates go up and up and up. We don't have a power grid in California that keeps us supplied with power. They shut it off constantly. In the middle of summer when you need air conditioning, they just shut the power off. In the middle of winter, you can't run your heat. It is crazy, absolutely crazy.

And yet they allow the power companies to make $6 billion profit per year on our backs. They just keep raising our rates so they can make more profit. That's going to end. There's a law that says companies absolutely must make money for their share. shareholders. You can't try and put your business out of business or you can't break even. You have to make money for your shareholders. So everything you do on running your business is going to be to make you money. They're not updating their infrastructure. They're not moving toward nuclear, which we will move toward nuclear with me as the governor. They're not doing any of that. They're just making

money of raising our rates. And that ends. We're going to slash rates at a minimum in half. It may even be more, but an absolute minimum in half, and we're going to force them to update their infrastructure, new power lines, underground power lines, move toward nuclear, and we're actually going to supply California with the electricity that we need, especially now that A is coming on board, and we want to attract all of that here, but we don't have the electricity that's required to run and power AI. So we've set ourselves up for failure because of a poor economic agenda and environmental environment. agenda and we're going to reverse that quickly with me as the governor. Yeah. You know, I know some of these questions have been easy, but I think this one might be a little hard. What do you think is the one decision from Governor Newsom that you think hurt the state of California the most? Oh, wow. You know, I don't think it's, I don't think it's one decision because it's hundreds a year. I mean, every, there are hundreds of decisions

that he makes every single year with laws that he's passing, that he's signing, or agenda that he's pushing behind the scenes in the legislature. And it's all piling on top of. So it's really, it's this very aggressive liberal socialistic agenda that they are just going all out on. And it's not even, it's not little bites at the apple anymore. They did the little bites of the apple. Now they're trying to take a half at a time or even just finishing it off and killing. and the apple. So it's not really one. It's multiple over and over and over. There hasn't been a decision made in his entire year that has been beneficial to California. Not single one. The Democrat Party can't point to one thing that he has done that has benefited California. Yeah. And for the

people watching, you know, when we were talking about the electricity prices, it was one of the companies were essentially bailed out. They were going to go bankrupt. They essentially bailed them out and they pass on the prices to the actual customer. Oh, yeah. That's exactly what the sheriff and I were getting into. What do you think is one thing the public would understand differently about your deputies and what you guys do on a daily basis if they did a ride-along with you guys? Yeah, I think they would see a completely different version of what they think California is

because we are a, or my direction and a vision is how you attack crime is you. have to be the most proactive law enforcement agency that you could possibly be. It goes back to the 90s and maybe even the 80s. And I think it was Bill Bratton in New York. It's the broken windows theory. You have to attack things when they're small before they get big. And so we have an unrelenting pursuit of criminals is what we refer to it here. And if you're going to commit a crime, we will find you.

We will find you. You will be held accountable. We will arrest you, put you in jail, prosecute you, and you're going to suffer a punishment. You're either going to stop or we're going to arrest you again the next time you do it. And I think that that's how you change behavior. And it's not like that all across California. We have a – California from the top down is kind of being set up as a haven for criminals. It's almost to where it enables criminal behavior.

And we just don't subscribe to that. I have a fantastic DA that believes the same thing that I do, and he prosecutes everybody that we bring it. And it's, I think we benefit for in Riverside County from that. Yeah. Yeah, it's something you said there that is very key. You have a DA who's willing to do their job. Their job. I mean, I hear in Austin, for example, Austin, Texas, their DA actually investigates their police officers every time there's a shooting. And they're much more sympathetic to criminals, I suppose. There's something that we saw during the research in your story. was your stance during the COVID mandates.

Could you explain to people what happened there and why you ultimately did what you did? Yeah, I think that, you know, it may be up to argument, but I was one of the first, if not the first, official in the entire country to stand up and say, we're not doing that. And it was particularly in law enforcement because it was being put on our hands to enforce these ridiculous rules. were, you know, arresting people for not wearing masks, for coming outside our house, or opening your business, or going to church, arresting pastors. And it was because I was involved so deeply with county government and the health issues and everything else, I got to be honest, it was, from the law enforcement perspective, as I'm listening to these people, tell me these, you know,

what's happening over a week, two week, three week, period. It was very obvious to me that they either didn't know what they were talking about. They were exaggerating or they were being completely dishonest and I was not going to go along with it. There was no way knowing that the state of California was emptying their prisons, releasing tens and thousands of inmates because they said it was going to be dangerous in jail and all these people were going to die. So they're releasing all these people from prison, but they want me to arrest a single mom for trying to put food on the table for her kids. There was no way that was going to happen under my watch when now I, when I have real crime to investigate. And so I just got up and I told our boy,

to supervisors, they were making a mistake that they should not go along with the state. And regardless of what their decision was going to be, was going to be zero enforcement in Riverside County. And we did very well because of it. We attracted a lot of businesses from other parts of the state. We attracted residents into our state. We hired a lot of deputies that were fired from other places for not taking the vaccination, the forced vaccination that they were fired because they wouldn't do it. We hired them. So we, we, we did very, very well because of that, because of the decision that I made to, to not abide by those ridiculous rules. That is really good to hear. A couple more questions here. So when we're seeing the issues

with illegal immigration and ICE enforcement, one thing I'm usually left with, and I think you'll be able to confirm if I'm correct or not. Sometimes the law enforcement officials, they're handicapped essentially because ultimately the answer to the mayor, I'm assuming. And so if the politicians don't want, you know, the local authorities to, you know, work with federal authorities, what else can they do? Is that exactly what's happening according to your, you know, in your county or Los Angeles County or throughout the state? It's worse than that. Because it's throughout the state.

It's a state law that makes it illegal for any law enforcement officer to cooperate with the federal government on immigration enforcement. So whether it's Border Patrol, ICE, anything, if it has to do with immigration enforcement, it's against the law in the state of California. And how it's set up is even this is how basic it is. If a patrol officer or a deputy pull somebody over and they suspect that they're illegal here in the country illegally, if they ask any questions that involves immigration status, that officer or deputy is subject to a $25,000 personal fine for rights violation because of state law that makes the same. And then me as the sheriff, if I cooperate with the federal government on ICE, so for instance, those DUI people, that are in my jail, they bail out or they get cited out, I have to release them back into society.

There's only a handful of laws that I can actually cooperate with. Murder is one. If there's a murderer in my jail, I don't have to release that person. I can turn them over to ICE. But if it's a rapist, I have to let them go. If it's a child molester, I have to let them go back out into society. Because if I cooperate with ICE, I'm guilty of a crime and I can be removed from office by attorney general. So they have made it completely illegal for local law enforcement to cooperate with the federal government. And it's harming us. It's a horrific law and it's harming us. Yeah. You know, it's really a, it's crazy when you hear it. It's, you know, it's really a nightmare scenario. Okay, final, or two more one, but this question here, did you witness the,

I believe it was the Los Angeles police chief who refused to enforce the law that the governor wanted when it came to ICE being banned from wearing masks. Where are you on that particular issue? And what did you think of that entire policy? It's political theater at best. It is an absolute joke. We know why they're doing it before it became an issue. when I started doing their immigration enforcement, they were getting followed home. They were, they're being outed by their neighbors. Their kids at school are being harassed by teachers because of what their parents do for a living, but for enforcing the law. So those ICE enforcement officials started wearing masks when they come out to do their job,

which more power to them. I wouldn't want anybody harassing my kids at school either, especially teachers. So the federal, the state is now trying to ban. that they're making it illegal and they they want federal law enforcement arrested for wearing masks it's so stupid and they there is no law enforcement official in california kudos to the chief um chief mcdonald did a great job standing up to them in that press conference saying that he wasn't going to do it how stupid it is because it truly is they're doing their job state officials can't tell federal officials how to do their job especially when it's legal so it's all political theater and it's just

to try and create a divide. And there's no one in law enforcement in California that's going to enforce that. Yeah. Thank you for clarifying that. I appreciate it. So final question here for you. A lot of negative stuff, obviously, that has happened in California. We know that. I think there's no shortage of that. So could you leave us with something positive? Is there any silver lining to what you see or what you've seen happen in California up to this point? Any positive lessons that we should all focus on. And also the people who may vote for you as the election comes up. Yeah, absolutely. So we have to admit California is the greatest state in the country. We have the greatest weather. We have the greatest beaches. We have the greatest snow,

ski resorts, the greatest farming, everything about California, we are self-contained, the only state in the country that can be self-contained. We have all the food we need. We have all the recreation we need, desert beaches, mountains, all of those things. We are a beautiful, beautiful, beautiful state. The only thing that's harming us is politics. Politics is destroying the state. And the bright spot, the very optimistic spot is that Californians are over it. We've realized that we've taken enough. We're not going to pay any more taxes. We're not going to pay any more fees. We're tired of using our money and wasting it. Now we see the waste, the fraud, the abuse, the embezzlement that's just out of people, we're over it. We want something better for Californians,

and that something better for Californians is a different direction of government. So in my campaign, that's what we are seeing. That's why I'm leading in the polls. I've been leading in the polls for the last six months, either number one or number two. It's something like 14 out of the last 19 or 18 or 19 polls. I've been number one. And in the rest of them, I'm two, one of them I was number three. So it's one, two, or three in for the last six months. It's resonating because people want something different. They know that I'm running this election for Californians. I'm not doing it to say I turned the state red and now California's red. I'm definitely not doing it for Democrat policies. I'm doing it for Californians who are suffering that want a better place here.

I'm doing it to make California work to make our Californians lives better instead of California government bigger that what we didn't been doing especially for the last 10 years and I think that's what's resonating so we have a lot to look forward to we have a lot of positive on the future we're gonna have voter vote on our ballot no a lot of things are gonna change next year if we can't get the SAVE Act passed at the federal level we're gonna do it here in California in November so there's a lot of positive things going on and we're finally at the point where regular Californians are ready to vote for change

instead of just voting the typical way that they usually do. Yeah. Sheriff Chad Bianco, thank you so much today. Very grateful for your time and your story. And thank you for answering our questions. And I wish you much success. I do hope, regardless in the end, we go in a different direction as far as the state of California is concerned.

I think no more than, I think this is the only time in history probably that there's a high likelihood that will happen. So I'm definitely grateful for your service. I appreciate you and your answers today. Thank you. Absolutely. Appreciate being on. Thank you very much.