The candidate posits that the San Francisco political establishment uses its gatekeeping power to stifle insurgent candidates, citing the mayor's race as an instance where those barriers were conteste

“I actually see that more as like the gatekeepers trying to reassert their power and saying, "Hey, hey, hey, if you're going to be an insurgent running against the system, you got to go through us first." And I really don't have any patience for that.”

San Francisco officials only cleaned up the city for the APEC summit and visiting leaders rather than for the city's residents.

“So, now what they've refused to do for years for the residents of San Francisco, they have done in a matter of days or at most weeks for Xi Jinping.”